Linus, Unfortunately the restoring of SPE state was causing data corruption since we were restoring based on the size of the altivec context and not the SPE context. Also, fixed setting of last_task_used_spe on start_thread, flush_thread, and exit_thread.
Patch should go in for 2.6.10. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala at freescale.com> -- diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/kernel/process.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/process.c --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/process.c 2004-12-14 15:59:07 -06:00 +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/process.c 2004-12-14 15:59:07 -06:00 @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ trap = TRAP(regs); if (trap == 0x300 || trap == 0x600) printk("DAR: %08lX, DSISR: %08lX\n", regs->dar, regs->dsisr); - printk("TASK = %p[%d] '%s' THREAD: %p", + printk("TASK = %p[%d] '%s' THREAD: %p\n", current, current->pid, current->comm, current->thread_info); printk("Last syscall: %ld ", current->thread.last_syscall); @@ -370,6 +370,10 @@ last_task_used_math = NULL; if (last_task_used_altivec == current) last_task_used_altivec = NULL; +#ifdef CONFIG_SPE + if (last_task_used_spe == current) + last_task_used_spe = NULL; +#endif } void flush_thread(void) @@ -378,6 +382,10 @@ last_task_used_math = NULL; if (last_task_used_altivec == current) last_task_used_altivec = NULL; +#ifdef CONFIG_SPE + if (last_task_used_spe == current) + last_task_used_spe = NULL; +#endif } void @@ -480,6 +488,10 @@ last_task_used_math = NULL; if (last_task_used_altivec == current) last_task_used_altivec = NULL; +#ifdef CONFIG_SPE + if (last_task_used_spe == current) + last_task_used_spe = NULL; +#endif memset(current->thread.fpr, 0, sizeof(current->thread.fpr)); current->thread.fpscr = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c 2004-12-14 15:59:07 -06:00 +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c 2004-12-14 15:59:07 -06:00 @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ if (!__get_user(msr, &sr->mc_gregs[PT_MSR]) && (msr & MSR_SPE) != 0) { /* restore spe registers from the stack */ if (__copy_from_user(current->thread.evr, &sr->mc_vregs, - sizeof(sr->mc_vregs))) + ELF_NEVRREG * sizeof(u32))) return 1; } else if (current->thread.used_spe) memset(¤t->thread.evr, 0, ELF_NEVRREG * sizeof(u32));