Public bug reported:
Corruption of XER upon a Transaction Failure (Transactional Memory)
Upon a transaction failure the XER register is not being changed back to
the value that should be in the transaction's register checkpoint.
This is occurring when the transaction has been failed in hypervisor
mode.
This require the following commit-id: 0d808df06a44 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S
HV: Save/restore XER in checkpointed register state", 2016-11-07)
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)
Status: New
** Tags: architecture-ppc64 bugnameltc-150567 severity-high
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** Tags added: architecture-ppc64 bugnameltc-150567 severity-high
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** Changed in: ubuntu
Assignee: (unassigned) => Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)
** Package changed: ubuntu => linux (Ubuntu)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656288
Title:
Corruption of XER upon a Transaction Failure (Transactional Memory)
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Corruption of XER upon a Transaction Failure (Transactional Memory)
Upon a transaction failure the XER register is not being changed back
to the value that should be in the transaction's register checkpoint.
This is occurring when the transaction has been failed in hypervisor
mode.
This require the following commit-id: 0d808df06a44 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S
HV: Save/restore XER in checkpointed register state", 2016-11-07)
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