powerpc: Restore correct DSCR in context switch
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:51:10 +0000 (16:51 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:04:42 +0000 (15:04 +0100)
commit33b29c62b42b09fae45b78535d315541ad65d321
treeb7d1f004981b6cffd0e131f0cb59812258e6bec4
parentea1862390d3fa57b1b0eca2c445f25a98e02fc7d
powerpc: Restore correct DSCR in context switch

commit 714332858bfd40dcf8f741498336d93875c23aa7 upstream.

During a context switch we always restore the per thread DSCR value.
If we aren't doing explicit DSCR management
(ie thread.dscr_inherit == 0) and the default DSCR changed while
the process has been sleeping we end up with the wrong value.

Check thread.dscr_inherit and select the default DSCR or per thread
DSCR as required.

This was found with the following test case, when running with
more threads than CPUs (ie forcing context switching):

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

With the four patches applied I can run a combination of all
test cases successfully at the same time:

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

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S