When we update the DSCR either via emulation of mtspr(DSCR) or via a change to dscr_default in sysfs we don't update thread.dscr. We will eventually update it at context switch time but there is a period where thread.dscr is incorrect.
If we fork at this point we will copy the old value of thread.dscr into the child. To avoid this, always keep thread.dscr in sync with reality. This issue was found with the following testcase: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_inherit_test.c Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> Cc: <sta...@kernel.org> # 3.0+ --- Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c =================================================================== --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -972,8 +972,9 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DSCR)) { PPC_WARN_EMULATED(mtdscr, regs); rd = (instword >> 21) & 0x1f; - mtspr(SPRN_DSCR, regs->gpr[rd]); + current->thread.dscr = regs->gpr[rd]; current->thread.dscr_inherit = 1; + mtspr(SPRN_DSCR, current->thread.dscr); return 0; } #endif Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c =================================================================== --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c @@ -196,8 +196,10 @@ static ssize_t show_dscr_default(struct static void update_dscr(void *dummy) { - if (!current->thread.dscr_inherit) + if (!current->thread.dscr_inherit) { + current->thread.dscr = dscr_default; mtspr(SPRN_DSCR, dscr_default); + } } static ssize_t __used store_dscr_default(struct device *dev, _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
