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    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc: Fix system calls on Cell entered with XER.SO=1 · ab598b66
      Paul Mackerras authored
      It turns out that on Cell, on a kernel with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
      = y, if a program sets the SO (summary overflow) bit in the XER and
      then does a system call, the SO bit in CR0 will be set on return
      regardless of whether the system call detected an error.  Since CR0.SO
      is used as the error indication from the system call, this means that
      all system calls appear to fail.
      
      The reason is that the workaround for the timebase bug on Cell uses a
      compare instruction.  With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, the
      ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY macro reads the timebase, so we end up doing a
      compare instruction, which copies XER.SO to CR0.SO.  Since we were
      doing this in the system call entry patch after clearing CR0.SO but
      before saving the CR, this meant that the saved CR image had CR0.SO
      set if XER.SO was set on entry.
      
      This fixes it by moving the clearing of CR0.SO to after the
      ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY call in the system call entry path.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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