On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 04:36:45PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Anyway, I have been able to test a backport of the patch onto the 5.10 > > kernel (with minor adjustments) and I confirm it fixes the reported > > issue. > > > > Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@xxxxxxxxxx> > > It seems that this patch hasn't been merged yet, either in Linus' tree > or in the MIPS tree. Is there anything blocking? sorry, took some time to get really back from vacation... I don't like the patch doing too much code restructing. I can't reproduce on my loongson machine, so I can't test below patch... What cmake version do I need and what would be a package to reproduce the bug ? Thomas. diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c index 5387ed0a5186..b630604c577f 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c @@ -121,6 +121,19 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args) /* Put the stack after the struct pt_regs. */ childksp = (unsigned long) childregs; p->thread.cp0_status = (read_c0_status() & ~(ST0_CU2|ST0_CU1)) | ST0_KERNEL_CUMASK; + + /* + * New tasks lose permission to use the fpu. This accelerates context + * switching for most programs since they don't use the fpu. + */ + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_USEDFPU); + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_USEDMSA); + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MSA_CTX_LIVE); + +#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_FPAFF + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FPUBOUND); +#endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_MT_FPAFF */ + if (unlikely(args->fn)) { /* kernel thread */ unsigned long status = p->thread.cp0_status; @@ -149,20 +162,8 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args) p->thread.reg29 = (unsigned long) childregs; p->thread.reg31 = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork; - /* - * New tasks lose permission to use the fpu. This accelerates context - * switching for most programs since they don't use the fpu. - */ childregs->cp0_status &= ~(ST0_CU2|ST0_CU1); - clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_USEDFPU); - clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_USEDMSA); - clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MSA_CTX_LIVE); - -#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_FPAFF - clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FPUBOUND); -#endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_MT_FPAFF */ - #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_FP_SUPPORT atomic_set(&p->thread.bd_emu_frame, BD_EMUFRAME_NONE); #endif -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]