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powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:46:47 +0000 (16:46 +1000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:51:41 +0000 (16:51 +1000)
The patch that moved to vector.S and made common between 32 and 64-bit the
altivec code had a nasty bug on 32-bit (did I really test that ?) which
causes the kernel to blr back into userspace ... oops :-)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S

index 6437f905c566b1c9c62c9e6c18c14e34c017f110..48469463f89e7a309e93e5d536da4ec1f0373f99 100644 (file)
@@ -733,9 +733,11 @@ END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(MMU_FTR_NEED_DTLB_SW_LRU)
 AltiVecUnavailable:
        EXCEPTION_PROLOG
 #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
-       bne     load_up_altivec         /* if from user, just load it up */
+       beq     1f
+       bl      load_up_altivec         /* if from user, just load it up */
+       b       fast_exception_return
 #endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
-       addi    r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
+1:     addi    r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
        EXC_XFER_EE_LITE(0xf20, altivec_unavailable_exception)
 
 PerformanceMonitor: