[PATCH 4.5 018/124] powerpc/process: Fix altivec SPR not being saved

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Apr 17 2016 - 23:42:19 EST


4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 01d7c2a2de47890934faba91a71d183795e4348d upstream.

In save_sprs() in process.c contains the following test:

if (cpu_has_feature(cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)))
t->vrsave = mfspr(SPRN_VRSAVE);

CPU feature with the mask 0x1 is CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE so the test
is equivilent to:

if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC) &&
cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE))

On CPUs without support for both (i.e G5) this results in vrsave not
being saved between context switches. The vector register save/restore
code doesn't use VRSAVE to determine which registers to save/restore,
but the value of VRSAVE is used to determine if altivec is being used
in several code paths.

Fixes: 152d523e6307 ("powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs() and restore_sprs()")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ void restore_tm_state(struct pt_regs *re
static inline void save_sprs(struct thread_struct *t)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
- if (cpu_has_feature(cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)))
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC))
t->vrsave = mfspr(SPRN_VRSAVE);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64