From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ppc64:Fix missing register in altivec context switch
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:25:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095049526.2543.253.camel@gaston> (raw)
This is a resend of a patch sent in July and that got lost somewhat,
the "VSCR" register wasn't restored properly from the context on
load_up_altivec (typo), please apply the fix:
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
===== arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S 1.76 vs edited =====
--- 1.76/arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S 2004-09-08 16:32:56 +10:00
+++ edited/arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S 2004-09-13 14:15:00 +10:00
@@ -1588,6 +1588,7 @@
li r10,THREAD_VSCR
stw r4,THREAD_USED_VR(r5)
lvx vr0,r10,r5
+ mtvscr vr0
REST_32VRS(0,r4,r5)
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
/* Update last_task_used_math to 'current' */
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