powerpc: Don't corrupt user registers on 32-bit
Commit de79f7b9 ("powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures") modified load_up_fpu() and load_up_altivec() in such a way that they now use r7 and r8. Unfortunately, the callers of these functions on 32-bit machines then return to userspace via fast_exception_return, which doesn't restore all of the volatile GPRs, but only r1, r3 -- r6 and r9 -- r12. This was causing userspace segfaults and other userspace misbehaviour on 32-bit machines. This fixes the problem by changing the register usage of load_up_fpu() and load_up_altivec() to avoid using r7 and r8 and instead use r6 and r10. This also adds comments to those functions saying which registers may be used. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> (on e500mc, so no altivec) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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