This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/asm: Mark cr0 as clobbered in mftb()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-asm-mark-cr0-as-clobbered-in-mftb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2400fd822f467cb4c886c879d8ad99feac9cf319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 18:46:43 +1000
Subject: powerpc/asm: Mark cr0 as clobbered in mftb()
From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 2400fd822f467cb4c886c879d8ad99feac9cf319 upstream.
The workaround for the CELL timebase bug does not correctly mark cr0 as
being clobbered. This means GCC doesn't know that the asm block changes cr0 and
might leave the result of an unrelated comparison in cr0 across the block, which
we then trash, leading to basically random behaviour.
Fixes: 859deea949c3 ("[POWERPC] Cell timebase bug workaround")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>
[mpe: Tweak change log and flag for stable]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ static inline unsigned long mfvtb (void)
" .llong 0\n" \
".previous" \
: "=r" (rval) \
- : "i" (CPU_FTR_CELL_TB_BUG), "i" (SPRN_TBRL)); \
+ : "i" (CPU_FTR_CELL_TB_BUG), "i" (SPRN_TBRL) : "cr0"); \
rval;})
#else
#define mftb() ({unsigned long rval; \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oohall@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/powerpc-asm-mark-cr0-as-clobbered-in-mftb.patch