Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix altivec_unavailable_exception Oopses

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Feb 21, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Alan Curry wrote:

> altivec_unavailable_exception is called without setting r3... it  
> looks like
> the r3 that actually gets passed in as struct pt_regs *regs is the
> undisturbed value of r3 at the time the altivec instruction was  
> encountered.
> The user actually gets to choose the pt_regs printed in the Oops!
>
> After applying the following patch to 2.6.16-rc4, I can no longer  
> cause an
> Oops by executing an altivec instruction with CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n. The  
> same
> change would probably also be good for arch/ppc/kernel/head.S to  
> fix the same
> Oops in 2.6.15.4, though I haven't tested that.
>
> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S.orig	2006-02-21  
> 15:58:18.000000000 -0500
> +++ arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S	2006-02-21 15:59:23.000000000 -0500
> @@ -714,6 +714,7 @@
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
>  	bne	load_up_altivec		/* if from user, just load it up */
>  #endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
> +	addi	r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
>  	EXC_XFER_EE_LITE(0xf20, altivec_unavailable_exception)
>
>  PerformanceMonitor:

Would you mine providing a patch for arch/ppc/kernel/head.S and  
adding a signed-off-by line.

- k