Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 4 authors, 2015-11-23

Re: [PATCH 4/8] powerpc: Explicitly disable math features when copying thread

From: Michael Neuling <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-23 01:08:39

On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 14:26 +1100, Cyril Bur wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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(+)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
b/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;
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 	/*
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