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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2013-08-09 17:29:30 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-08-09 18:07:08 +1000
commitc2d52644e2da8a07ecab5ca62dd0bc563089e8dc (patch)
treea21b5652b82e1e0dee7e996c1c77c9d7ac5e9033 /arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
parent2517617e0de65f8f7cfe75cae745d06b1fa98586 (diff)
powerpc: Save the TAR register earlier
This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in __switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this. We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a transaction. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c')
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index c517dbe705fd..8083be20fe5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -600,6 +600,16 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
struct ppc64_tlb_batch *batch;
#endif
+ /* Back up the TAR across context switches.
+ * Note that the TAR is not available for use in the kernel. (To
+ * provide this, the TAR should be backed up/restored on exception
+ * entry/exit instead, and be in pt_regs. FIXME, this should be in
+ * pt_regs anyway (for debug).)
+ * Save the TAR here before we do treclaim/trecheckpoint as these
+ * will change the TAR.
+ */
+ save_tar(&prev->thread);
+
__switch_to_tm(prev);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP