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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc: Fix kernel log of oops/panic instruction dump</title>
<updated>2012-02-16T05:11:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ira Snyder</name>
<email>iws@ovro.caltech.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-06T12:34:07+00:00</published>
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A kernel oops/panic prints an instruction dump showing several
instructions before and after the instruction which caused the
oops/panic.

The code intended that the faulting instruction be enclosed in angle
brackets, however a bug caused the faulting instruction to be
interpreted by printk() as the message log level.

To fix this, the KERN_CONT log level is added before the actual text of
the printed message.

=== Before the patch ===

[ 1081.587266] Instruction dump:
[ 1081.590236] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
[ 1081.598034] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000
[ 1081.602500]  4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

&lt;4&gt;[ 1081.587266] Instruction dump:
&lt;4&gt;[ 1081.590236] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
&lt;4&gt;[ 1081.598034] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000
&lt;98090000&gt;[ 1081.602500]  4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

=== After the patch ===

[   51.385216] Instruction dump:
[   51.388186] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
[   51.395986] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000 &lt;98090000&gt; 4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

&lt;4&gt;[   51.385216] Instruction dump:
&lt;4&gt;[   51.388186] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
&lt;4&gt;[   51.395986] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000 &lt;98090000&gt; 4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder &lt;iws@ovro.caltech.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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A kernel oops/panic prints an instruction dump showing several
instructions before and after the instruction which caused the
oops/panic.

The code intended that the faulting instruction be enclosed in angle
brackets, however a bug caused the faulting instruction to be
interpreted by printk() as the message log level.

To fix this, the KERN_CONT log level is added before the actual text of
the printed message.

=== Before the patch ===

[ 1081.587266] Instruction dump:
[ 1081.590236] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
[ 1081.598034] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000
[ 1081.602500]  4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

&lt;4&gt;[ 1081.587266] Instruction dump:
&lt;4&gt;[ 1081.590236] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
&lt;4&gt;[ 1081.598034] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000
&lt;98090000&gt;[ 1081.602500]  4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

=== After the patch ===

[   51.385216] Instruction dump:
[   51.388186] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
[   51.395986] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000 &lt;98090000&gt; 4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

&lt;4&gt;[   51.385216] Instruction dump:
&lt;4&gt;[   51.388186] 7c000110 7c0000f8 5400077c 552907f6 7d290378 992b0003 4e800020 38000001
&lt;4&gt;[   51.395986] 3d20c03a 9009a114 7c0004ac 39200000 &lt;98090000&gt; 4e800020 3803ffd0 2b800009

Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder &lt;iws@ovro.caltech.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Decode correct MSR bits in oops output</title>
<updated>2011-11-28T00:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-24T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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On a 64bit book3s machine I have an oops from a system reset that
claims the book3e CE bit was set:

MSR: 8000000000021032 &lt;ME,CE,IR,DR&gt;  CR: 24004082  XER: 00000010

On a book3s machine system reset sets IBM bit 46 and 47 depending on
the power saving mode. Separate the definitions by type and for
completeness add the rest of the bits in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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On a 64bit book3s machine I have an oops from a system reset that
claims the book3e CE bit was set:

MSR: 8000000000021032 &lt;ME,CE,IR,DR&gt;  CR: 24004082  XER: 00000010

On a book3s machine system reset sets IBM bit 46 and 47 depending on
the power saving mode. Separate the definitions by type and for
completeness add the rest of the bits in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e-64: Fix debug support for userspace</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-06T02:53:40+00:00</published>
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With the introduction of CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS user space debug is
broken on Book-E 64-bit parts that support delayed debug events.  When
switch_booke_debug_regs() sets DBCR0 we'll start getting debug events as
MSR_DE is also set and we aren't able to handle debug events from kernel
space.

We can remove the hack that always enables MSR_DE and loads up DBCR0 and
just utilize switch_booke_debug_regs() to get user space debug working
again.

We still need to handle critical/debug exception stacks &amp; proper
save/restore of state for those exception levles to support debug events
from kernel space like we have on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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With the introduction of CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS user space debug is
broken on Book-E 64-bit parts that support delayed debug events.  When
switch_booke_debug_regs() sets DBCR0 we'll start getting debug events as
MSR_DE is also set and we aren't able to handle debug events from kernel
space.

We can remove the hack that always enables MSR_DE and loads up DBCR0 and
just utilize switch_booke_debug_regs() to get user space debug working
again.

We still need to handle critical/debug exception stacks &amp; proper
save/restore of state for those exception levles to support debug events
from kernel space like we have on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Revert show_regs() define for readability</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T05:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-06T02:53:38+00:00</published>
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We had an existing ifdef for 4xx &amp; BOOKE processors that got changed to
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define has nothing to do with
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define really should be:

 #if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)

and not

 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We had an existing ifdef for 4xx &amp; BOOKE processors that got changed to
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define has nothing to do with
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS.  The define really should be:

 #if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)

and not

 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: various straight conversions from module.h --&gt; export.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T22:24:23+00:00</published>
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T05:59:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T05:59:39+00:00</published>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (99 commits)
  drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c
  powerpc/85xx: fix mpic configuration in CAMP mode
  powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
  powerpc/64: Make server perfmon only built on ppc64 server devices
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvc_vio.c build due to recent changes
  powerpc: Exporting boot_cpuid_phys
  powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output
  hvc_console: Add kdb support
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvterm_raw_get_chars to accept &lt; 16 chars, fixing xmon
  powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks
  powerpc: Enable lockup and hung task detectors in pseries and ppc64 defeconfigs
  powerpc: Add mpt2sas driver to pseries and ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Disable IRQs off tracer in ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Sync pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix dropped console output
  hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
  powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/mm: Fix output of total_ram.
  powerpc/cpufreq: Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
  powerpc: Correct annotations of pmu registration functions
  ...

Fix up trivial Kconfig/Makefile conflicts in arch/powerpc, drivers, and
drivers/cpufreq
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (99 commits)
  drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c
  powerpc/85xx: fix mpic configuration in CAMP mode
  powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
  powerpc/64: Make server perfmon only built on ppc64 server devices
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvc_vio.c build due to recent changes
  powerpc: Exporting boot_cpuid_phys
  powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output
  hvc_console: Add kdb support
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvterm_raw_get_chars to accept &lt; 16 chars, fixing xmon
  powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks
  powerpc: Enable lockup and hung task detectors in pseries and ppc64 defeconfigs
  powerpc: Add mpt2sas driver to pseries and ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Disable IRQs off tracer in ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Sync pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix dropped console output
  hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
  powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/mm: Fix output of total_ram.
  powerpc/cpufreq: Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
  powerpc: Correct annotations of pmu registration functions
  ...

Fix up trivial Kconfig/Makefile conflicts in arch/powerpc, drivers, and
drivers/cpufreq
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output</title>
<updated>2011-07-19T05:13:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-14T19:25:12+00:00</published>
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Now we have the CFAR saved add it to the oops output.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Now we have the CFAR saved add it to the oops output.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)</title>
<updated>2011-07-19T05:12:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>minipli@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-10T03:10:22+00:00</published>
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The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this
set_fs(USER_DS) is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this
set_fs(USER_DS) is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:21:34+00:00</published>
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This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<title>powerpc/e500: Save SPEFCSR in flush_spe_to_thread()</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>yu liu</name>
<email>yu.liu@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-14T23:34:25+00:00</published>
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giveup_spe() saves the SPE state which is protected by MSR[SPE].
However, modifying SPEFSCR does not trap when MSR[SPE]=0.
And since SPEFSCR is already saved/restored in _switch(),
not all the callers want to save SPEFSCR again.
Thus, saving SPEFSCR should not belong to giveup_spe().

This patch moves SPEFSCR saving to flush_spe_to_thread(),
and cleans up the caller that needs to save SPEFSCR accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu &lt;yu.liu@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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giveup_spe() saves the SPE state which is protected by MSR[SPE].
However, modifying SPEFSCR does not trap when MSR[SPE]=0.
And since SPEFSCR is already saved/restored in _switch(),
not all the callers want to save SPEFSCR again.
Thus, saving SPEFSCR should not belong to giveup_spe().

This patch moves SPEFSCR saving to flush_spe_to_thread(),
and cleans up the caller that needs to save SPEFSCR accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu &lt;yu.liu@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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