[PATCH V3 0/3] Add new PowerPC specific ELF core notes

Sam Bobroff sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com
Fri Jul 18 09:23:18 EST 2014


On 17/07/14 21:14, Michael Neuling wrote:
> 
> On Jul 17, 2014 9:11 PM, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt"
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org <mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org>> wrote:
>>
>> > >
>> > >> Outstanding Issues
>> > >> ==================
>> > >> (1) Running DSCR register value inside a transaction does not
> seem to be saved
>> > >>     at thread.dscr when the process stops for ptrace examination.
>> > >
>> > > Hey Ben,
>> > >
>> > > Any updates on this patch series ?
>> >
>> > Ben,
>> >
>> > Any updates on this patch series ?
>>
>> I haven't had a chance to review yet, I was hoping somebody else would..
>>
>> Have you made any progress vs. the DSCR outstanding issue mentioned
>> above ?
> 
> The DSCR issue should be resolved with Sam Bobroff's recent  DSCR
> fixes.  I've not tested them though.
> 
> Actually... Sam did you review this series?
> 
> Mikey
> 

I did, and applying "powerpc: Correct DSCR during TM context switch"
corrected the DSCR value in the test program (the one in the patch notes
for this series).

(In fact, IIRC, the reason for my patch set was the bug exposed by this
one ;-)

Cheers,
Sam.




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