[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec when using VMX optimised memcpy" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec when using VMX optimised memcpy

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 6711c99aa4ace9fa45fd0fba2bae031146924532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton at au1.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:04:53 +0000
Subject: powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec when using VMX optimised memcpy

commit 79c66ce8f6448a3295a32efeac88c9debd7f7094 upstream.

commit b3f271e86e5a (powerpc: POWER7 optimised memcpy using VMX and
enhanced prefetch) uses VMX when it is safe to do so (ie not in
interrupt). It also looks at the task struct to decide if we have to
save the current tasks' VMX state.

kexec calls memcpy() at a point where the task struct may have been
overwritten by the new kexec segments. If it has been overwritten
then when memcpy -> enable_altivec looks up current->thread.regs->msr
we get a cryptic oops or lockup.

I also notice we aren't initialising thread_info->cpu, which means
smp_processor_id is broken. Fix that too.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 466a290..611acdf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/hardirq.h>

 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/current.h>
@@ -335,10 +336,13 @@ void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	pr_debug("kexec: Starting switchover sequence.\n");

 	/* switch to a staticly allocated stack.  Based on irq stack code.
+	 * We setup preempt_count to avoid using VMX in memcpy.
 	 * XXX: the task struct will likely be invalid once we do the copy!
 	 */
 	kexec_stack.thread_info.task = current_thread_info()->task;
 	kexec_stack.thread_info.flags = 0;
+	kexec_stack.thread_info.preempt_count = HARDIRQ_OFFSET;
+	kexec_stack.thread_info.cpu = current_thread_info()->cpu;

 	/* We need a static PACA, too; copy this CPU's PACA over and switch to
 	 * it.  Also poison per_cpu_offset to catch anyone using non-static
--
1.8.1.2