On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 23:45:59 UTC, Matt Brown wrote: > The xor_vmx.c file is used for the RAID5 xor operations. In these functions > altivec is enabled to run the operation and then disabled. However due to > compiler instruction reordering, altivec instructions are being run before > enable_altivec() and after disable_altivec(). > > This patch splits the non-altivec code into xor_vmx_glue.c which calls the > altivec functions in xor_vmx.c. By compiling xor_vmx_glue.c without > -maltivec we can guarantee that altivec instruction will not be reordered > outside of the enable/disable block. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Brown <matthew.brown....@gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f718d426d7e42eec6e5d2932f52a51 cheers
