If the default DSCR is non zero we set thread.dscr_inherit in copy_thread() meaning the new thread and all its children will ignore future updates to the default DSCR. This is not intended and is a change in behaviour that a number of our users have hit.
We just need to inherit thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit from the parent which ends up being much simpler. This was found with the following test case: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.c Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> Cc: <sta...@kernel.org> # 3.0+ --- Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c =================================================================== --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -802,16 +802,8 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 */ #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DSCR)) { - if (current->thread.dscr_inherit) { - p->thread.dscr_inherit = 1; - p->thread.dscr = current->thread.dscr; - } else if (0 != dscr_default) { - p->thread.dscr_inherit = 1; - p->thread.dscr = dscr_default; - } else { - p->thread.dscr_inherit = 0; - p->thread.dscr = 0; - } + p->thread.dscr_inherit = current->thread.dscr_inherit; + p->thread.dscr = current->thread.dscr; } #endif _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
