Commit 0ef9775d authored by Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar Benjamin Herrenschmidt Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ppc64: Add a sync in context switch on SMP

For the same reason as ppc32, we need to ensure that all stores
done on a CPU has reached the coherency domain and are visible
to loads done by another CPU when context switching as the same
thread may be rescheduled almost right away there.
parent 585d744b
......@@ -289,6 +289,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)
std r23,_CCR(r1)
std r1,KSP(r3) /* Set old stack pointer */
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/* We need a sync somewhere here to make sure that if the
* previous task gets rescheduled on another CPU, it sees all
* stores it has performed on this one.
*/
sync
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
addi r6,r4,-THREAD /* Convert THREAD to 'current' */
std r6,PACACURRENT(r13) /* Set new 'current' */
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