With threads leaving the math bits enabled in their saved MSR to indicate that the hardware is hot and a restore is not needed, children need to turn it off as when they do get scheduled, there's no way their registers could have been hot.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index dccc87e..e0c3d2d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -1307,6 +1307,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp, f = ret_from_fork; } + childregs->msr &= ~(MSR_FP|MSR_VEC|MSR_VSX); sp -= STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD; /* -- 2.7.0 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev