Re: [PATCH 4/8] powerpc: Explicitly disable math features when copying thread
From: Michael Neuling <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-23 01:08:39
From: Michael Neuling <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-23 01:08:39
On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 14:26 +1100, Cyril Bur wrote:
With threads leaving the math bits enabled in their saved MSR to indicate that the hardware is hot and a restore is not needed, children need to turn it off as when they do get scheduled, there's no way their registers could have been hot. =20 Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <redacted> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) =20diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.cb/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index 398f7bf..441d9e5 100644--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c@@ -1243,6 +1243,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags,unsigned long usp, =20 f =3D ret_from_fork; } + childregs->msr &=3D ~(MSR_FP|MSR_VEC|MSR_VSX);
Is this a current bug?=20 Mikey
sp -=3D STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD; =20 /*