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Commit 955c1cab authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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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: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> (on e500mc, so no altivec)
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 18461960
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