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powerpc: Partial revert of "Context switch more PMU related SPRs"
authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:03:36 +0000 (18:03 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:36:35 +0000 (08:36 +1000)
In commit 59affcd I added context switching of more PMU SPRs, because
they are potentially exposed to userspace on Power8. However despite me
being a smart arse in the commit message it's actually not correct. In
particular it interacts badly with a global perf record.

We will have to do something more complicated, but that will have to
wait for 3.11.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S

index 246b11c4fe7eda803a4c076c078c5afdcff04590..8741c854e03d50800cba18ad091f3d843c6a0111 100644 (file)
@@ -465,20 +465,6 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
        std     r0, THREAD_EBBHR(r3)
        mfspr   r0, SPRN_EBBRR
        std     r0, THREAD_EBBRR(r3)
-
-       /* PMU registers made user read/(write) by EBB */
-       mfspr   r0, SPRN_SIAR
-       std     r0, THREAD_SIAR(r3)
-       mfspr   r0, SPRN_SDAR
-       std     r0, THREAD_SDAR(r3)
-       mfspr   r0, SPRN_SIER
-       std     r0, THREAD_SIER(r3)
-       mfspr   r0, SPRN_MMCR0
-       std     r0, THREAD_MMCR0(r3)
-       mfspr   r0, SPRN_MMCR2
-       std     r0, THREAD_MMCR2(r3)
-       mfspr   r0, SPRN_MMCRA
-       std     r0, THREAD_MMCRA(r3)
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
 #endif
 
@@ -581,20 +567,6 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
        ld      r0, THREAD_EBBRR(r4)
        mtspr   SPRN_EBBRR, r0
 
-       /* PMU registers made user read/(write) by EBB */
-       ld      r0, THREAD_SIAR(r4)
-       mtspr   SPRN_SIAR, r0
-       ld      r0, THREAD_SDAR(r4)
-       mtspr   SPRN_SDAR, r0
-       ld      r0, THREAD_SIER(r4)
-       mtspr   SPRN_SIER, r0
-       ld      r0, THREAD_MMCR0(r4)
-       mtspr   SPRN_MMCR0, r0
-       ld      r0, THREAD_MMCR2(r4)
-       mtspr   SPRN_MMCR2, r0
-       ld      r0, THREAD_MMCRA(r4)
-       mtspr   SPRN_MMCRA, r0
-
        ld      r0,THREAD_TAR(r4)
        mtspr   SPRN_TAR,r0
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)