Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2016-03-30

[PATCH] powerpc/process: fix altivec SPR not being saved

From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-03-07 22:09:48
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds

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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <redacted>
Fixes: 152d523e6307 ("powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs() and restore_sprs()")
Cc: stable@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
-- 
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