From 39715bf972ed4fee18fe5409609a971fb16b1771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Rothberg Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 07:57:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/process: Fix CONFIG_ALIVEC typo in restore_tm_state() It should be ALTIVEC, not ALIVEC. Cyril explains: If a thread performs a transaction with altivec and then gets preempted for whatever reason, this bug may cause the kernel to not re-enable altivec when that thread runs again. This will result in an altivec unavailable fault, when that fault happens inside a user transaction the kernel has no choice but to enable altivec and doom the transaction. The result is that transactions using altivec may get aborted more often than they should. The difficulty in catching this with a selftest is my deliberate use of the word may above. Optimisations to avoid FPU/altivec/VSX faults mean that the kernel will always leave them on for 255 switches. This code prevents the kernel turning it off if it got to the 256th switch (and userspace was transactional). Fixes: dc16b553c949 ("powerpc: Always restore FPU/VEC/VSX if hardware transactional memory in use") Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- 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 9e7c10f..ce6dc61 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ void restore_tm_state(struct pt_regs *regs) /* Ensure that restore_math() will restore */ if (msr_diff & MSR_FP) current->thread.load_fp = 1; -#ifdef CONFIG_ALIVEC +#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC) && msr_diff & MSR_VEC) current->thread.load_vec = 1; #endif -- 2.7.4