powerpc: Update DSCR on all CPUs when writing sysfs dscr_default
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:47:56 +0000 (16:47 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:49:05 +0000 (10:49 -0800)
commit1758e55fd05e042e873f6d54657552ee1730bb32
treef38b64de33726999219a359869067db9b88b5482
parent7a09a2fff84eda4ac1bba98a61a61bd58f369bed
powerpc: Update DSCR on all CPUs when writing sysfs dscr_default

commit 1b6ca2a6fe56e7697d57348646e07df08f43b1bb upstream.

Writing to dscr_default in sysfs doesn't actually change the DSCR -
we rely on a context switch on each CPU to do the work. There is no
guarantee we will get a context switch in a reasonable amount of time
so fire off an IPI to force an immediate change.

This issue was found with the following test case:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.c

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c