- 14 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Since 2002, the kernel has not saved VRSAVE on exception entry and restored it on exit; rather, VRSAVE gets context-switched in _switch. This means that when executing in process context in the kernel, the userspace VRSAVE value is live in the VRSAVE register. However, the signal code assumes that current->thread.vrsave holds the current VRSAVE value, which is incorrect. Therefore, this commit changes it to use the actual VRSAVE register instead. (It still uses current->thread.vrsave as a temporary location to store it in, as __get_user and __put_user can only transfer to/from a variable, not an SPR.) This also modifies the transactional memory code to save and restore VRSAVE regardless of whether VMX is enabled in the MSR. This is because accesses to VRSAVE are not controlled by the MSR.VEC bit, but can happen at any time. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
If a transaction is rolled back, the Target Address Register (TAR), Processor Priority Register (PPR) and Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) should be restored to the checkpointed values before the transaction began. Any changes to these SPRs inside the transaction should not be visible in the abort handler. Currently Linux doesn't save or restore the checkpointed TAR, PPR or DSCR. If we preempt a processes inside a transaction which has modified any of these, on process restore, that same transaction may be aborted we but we won't see the checkpointed versions of these SPRs. This adds checkpointed versions of these SPRs to the thread_struct and adds the save/restore of these three SPRs to the treclaim/trechkpt code. Without this if any of these SPRs are modified during a transaction, users may incorrectly see a speculated SPR value even if the transaction is aborted. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10] Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 30 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
When we treclaim and trecheckpoint there's an unavoidable period when r1 will not be a valid kernel stack pointer. This patch clears the MSR recoverable interrupt (RI) bit over these regions to indicate we have an invalid kernel stack pointer. For treclaim, the region over which we clear MSR RI is larger than required to avoid the need for an extra costly mtmsrd. Thanks to Paulus for suggesting this change. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 10 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
We can't compile a kernel with CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n when CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y. We currently get: arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:320: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VSCR arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0 arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S:323: Error: unsupported relocation against THREAD_VR0 etc. The below fixes this with a sprinkling of #ifdefs. This was found by mpe with kisskb: http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8539442/Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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- 15 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Here we add the helper functions to be used when context switching. These allow us to fully reclaim and recheckpoint a transaction. We introduce a new paca field called tm_scratch to help us store away register values when doing the low level tm reclaim register save. Signed-off-by: NMatt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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