| Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:37:01 +0100 | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Subject | [ 036/135] powerpc: Update DSCR on all CPUs when writing sysfs dscr_default |
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3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
commit 1b6ca2a6fe56e7697d57348646e07df08f43b1bb upstream.
Writing to dscr_default in sysfs doesn't actually change the DSCR - we rely on a context switch on each CPU to do the work. There is no guarantee we will get a context switch in a reasonable amount of time so fire off an IPI to force an immediate change.
This issue was found with the following test case:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.c
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c @@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ static ssize_t show_dscr_default(struct return sprintf(buf, "%lx\n", dscr_default); } +static void update_dscr(void *dummy) +{ + if (!current->thread.dscr_inherit) + mtspr(SPRN_DSCR, dscr_default); +} + static ssize_t __used store_dscr_default(struct sysdev_class *class, struct sysdev_class_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) @@ -204,6 +210,8 @@ static ssize_t __used store_dscr_default return -EINVAL; dscr_default = val; + on_each_cpu(update_dscr, NULL, 1); + return count; }
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