tree bb56b252d76d7476612ede66b15e7fea5daa0dff
parent 0608d692463598c1d6e826d9dd7283381b4f246c
author Priyanka Jain <Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com> 1369963202 +0000
committer Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 1370039367 +1000

powerpc/32bit:Store temporary result in r0 instead of r8

Commit a9c4e541ea9b22944da356f2a9258b4eddcc953b
"powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame"
introduced a regression:

While returning from exception handling in case of PREEMPT enabled,
_TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit is checked in TI_FLAGS (thread_info flag) of current
task. Only if this bit is set, it should continue with the process of
calling preempt_schedule_irq() to schedule highest priority task if
available.

Current code assumes that r8 contains TI_FLAGS and check this for
_TIF_NEED_RESCHED, but as r8 is modified in the code which executes before
this check, r8 no longer contains the expected TI_FLAGS information.

As a result check for comparison with _TIF_NEED_RESCHED was failing even if
NEED_RESCHED bit is set in the current thread_info flag. Due to this,
preempt_schedule_irq() and in turn scheduler was not getting called even if
highest priority task is ready for execution.

So, store temporary results in r0 instead of r8 to prevent r8 from getting
modified as subsequent code is dependent on its value.

Signed-off-by: Priyanka Jain <Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.7+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>