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| author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2016-05-19 20:41:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2016-07-26 06:16:19 +0200 |
| commit | dd57023747e33572b31867f890b0d99f55b5cc2f (patch) | |
| tree | b1c4d528032a2d3f594357965c122ff2c15298b2 | |
| parent | powerpc/mm: Drop unused externs for hpte_init_beat[_v3]() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dd57023747e33572b31867f890b0d99f55b5cc2f.tar.xz linux-dd57023747e33572b31867f890b0d99f55b5cc2f.zip | |
powerpc: Improve comment explaining why we modify VRSAVE
The comment explaining why we modify VRSAVE is misleading, glibc
does rely on the behaviour. Update the comment.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S index 1c2e7a343bf5..616a6d854638 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S @@ -70,10 +70,11 @@ _GLOBAL(load_up_altivec) MTMSRD(r5) /* enable use of AltiVec now */ isync - /* Hack: if we get an altivec unavailable trap with VRSAVE - * set to all zeros, we assume this is a broken application - * that fails to set it properly, and thus we switch it to - * all 1's + /* + * While userspace in general ignores VRSAVE, glibc uses it as a boolean + * to optimise userspace context save/restore. Whenever we take an + * altivec unavailable exception we must set VRSAVE to something non + * zero. Set it to all 1s. See also the programming note in the ISA. */ mfspr r4,SPRN_VRSAVE cmpwi 0,r4,0 |