[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 08/14] powerpc/32: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread
Sasha Levin
sashal at kernel.org
Fri Sep 10 10:23:57 AEST 2021
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
[ Upstream commit 113ec9ccc8049c3772f0eab46b62c5d6654c09f7 ]
Copied from commit 89bbe4c798bc ("powerpc/64: indirect function call
use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread")
blrl is not recommended to use as an indirect function call, as it may
corrupt the link stack predictor.
This is not a performance critical path but this should be fixed for
consistency.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/91b1d242525307ceceec7ef6e832bfbacdd4501b.1629436472.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 609bc7d01f13..2164ff5a171c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -441,10 +441,10 @@ ret_from_fork:
ret_from_kernel_thread:
REST_NVGPRS(r1)
bl schedule_tail
- mtlr r14
+ mtctr r14
mr r3,r15
PPC440EP_ERR42
- blrl
+ bctrl
li r3,0
b ret_from_syscall
--
2.30.2
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