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powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers

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Currently, if a process starts a transaction and then takes an
exception because the FPU, VMX or VSX unit is unavailable to it,
we end up corrupting any FP/VMX/VSX state that was valid before
the interrupt.  For example, if the process starts a transaction
with the FPU available to it but VMX unavailable, and then does
a VMX instruction inside the transaction, the FP state gets
corrupted.

Loading up the desired state generally involves doing a reclaim
and a recheckpoint.  To avoid corrupting already-valid state, we have
to be careful not to reload that state from the thread_struct
between the reclaim and the recheckpoint (since the thread_struct
values are stale by now), and we have to reload that state from
the transact_fp/vr arrays after the recheckpoint to get back the
current transactional values saved there by the reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Paul Mackerras 2014-01-13 15:56:30 +11:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent d31626f70b
commit 3ac8ff1c47
1 changed files with 37 additions and 10 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
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@ -1416,11 +1416,19 @@ void fp_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
/* This loads and recheckpoints the FP registers from
* thread.fpr[]. They will remain in registers after the
* checkpoint so we don't need to reload them after.
* If VMX is in use, the VRs now hold checkpointed values,
* so we don't want to load the VRs from the thread_struct.
*/
tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread, regs->msr);
tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread, MSR_FP);
/* If VMX is in use, get the transactional values back */
if (regs->msr & MSR_VEC) {
do_load_up_transact_altivec(&current->thread);
/* At this point all the VSX state is loaded, so enable it */
regs->msr |= MSR_VSX;
}
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
void altivec_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
/* See the comments in fp_unavailable_tm(). This function operates
@ -1432,14 +1440,19 @@ void altivec_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
regs->nip, regs->msr);
tm_reclaim_current(TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV);
regs->msr |= MSR_VEC;
tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread, regs->msr);
tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread, MSR_VEC);
current->thread.used_vr = 1;
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
if (regs->msr & MSR_FP) {
do_load_up_transact_fpu(&current->thread);
regs->msr |= MSR_VSX;
}
}
void vsx_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
unsigned long orig_msr = regs->msr;
/* See the comments in fp_unavailable_tm(). This works similarly,
* though we're loading both FP and VEC registers in here.
*
@ -1451,16 +1464,30 @@ void vsx_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
"MSR=%lx\n",
regs->nip, regs->msr);
current->thread.used_vsr = 1;
/* If FP and VMX are already loaded, we have all the state we need */
if ((orig_msr & (MSR_FP | MSR_VEC)) == (MSR_FP | MSR_VEC)) {
regs->msr |= MSR_VSX;
return;
}
/* This reclaims FP and/or VR regs if they're already enabled */
tm_reclaim_current(TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV);
regs->msr |= MSR_VEC | MSR_FP | current->thread.fpexc_mode |
MSR_VSX;
/* This loads & recheckpoints FP and VRs. */
tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread, regs->msr);
current->thread.used_vsr = 1;
/* This loads & recheckpoints FP and VRs; but we have
* to be sure not to overwrite previously-valid state.
*/
tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread, regs->msr & ~orig_msr);
if (orig_msr & MSR_FP)
do_load_up_transact_fpu(&current->thread);
if (orig_msr & MSR_VEC)
do_load_up_transact_altivec(&current->thread);
}
#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM */
void performance_monitor_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)