Thread (4 messages) flat view 4 messages, 4 authors, 2017-06-08

Re: powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation

From: Michael Ellerman <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-08 04:05:18

On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 14:40:59 UTC, Breno Leitao wrote:
Currently tsk->thread.load_tm is not initialized in the task creation
and can contain garbage on a new task.

This is an undesired behaviour, since it affects the timing to enable
and disable the transactional memory laziness (disabling and enabling
the MSR TM bit, which affects TM reclaim and recheckpoint in the
scheduling process).

CC: Anton Blanchard <redacted>
Fixes: 5d176f751ee3c6eededd984ad409bff201f436a7
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7f22ced4377628074e2ac25f41a88f

cheers
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