[PATCH] powerpc/process: fix altivec SPR not being saved
Oliver O'Halloran
oohall at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 09:08:47 AEDT 2016
In save_sprs() in process.c contains the following test:
if (cpu_has_feature(cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)))
t->vrsave = mfspr(SPRN_VRSAVE);
CPU feature with the mask 0x1 is CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE so the test
is equivilent to:
if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC) &&
cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE))
On CPUs without support for both (i.e G5) this results in vrsave not being
saved between context switches. The vector register save/restore code
doesn't use VRSAVE to determine which registers to save/restore,
but the value of VRSAVE is used to determine if altivec is being used
in several code paths.
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Fixes: 152d523e6307 ("powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs() and restore_sprs()")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index dccc87e8fee5..bc6aa87a3b12 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ void restore_tm_state(struct pt_regs *regs)
static inline void save_sprs(struct thread_struct *t)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
- if (cpu_has_feature(cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)))
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC))
t->vrsave = mfspr(SPRN_VRSAVE);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
--
2.5.0
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