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powerpc: Update DSCR on all CPUs when writing sysfs dscr_default
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:47:56 +0000 (16:47 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:00:22 +0000 (10:00 -0700)
commit652f43702b224351b790fd9182744d7946d4cdf6
tree417d56cf598b44311b7d4664e7348ae9285c3c37
parenta9959bb7e1510edb3326beb354e59da0a6a0dab1
powerpc: Update DSCR on all CPUs when writing sysfs dscr_default

commit 1b6ca2a6fe56e7697d57348646e07df08f43b1bb upstream.

Writing to dscr_default in sysfs doesn't actually change the DSCR -
we rely on a context switch on each CPU to do the work. There is no
guarantee we will get a context switch in a reasonable amount of time
so fire off an IPI to force an immediate change.

This issue was found with the following test case:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.c

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c