Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kernel: improve FP and vector registers restoration

Breno Leitao writes: > Currently tsk->thread->load_vec and load_fp are not initialized during a > task creation, which set garbage to these variables (non-zero value). > > These variables will be checked later at restore_math() to validate if the > FP and vectors are being

Re: [PATCH v1 7/8] powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

Balbir Singh writes: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Christophe LEROY > wrote: >> Le 25/05/2017 à 18:45, kbuild test robot a écrit : >>> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): >>> > kernel//power/snapshot.c:40:28: fatal error:

Re: [PATCH v2] cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts

On 03/06/17 02:56, Vaibhav Jain wrote: During an eeh call to cxl_remove can result in double free_irq of psl,slice interrupts. This can happen if perst_reloads_same_image == 1 and call to cxl_configure_adapter() fails during slot_reset callback. In such a case we see a kernel oops with following

Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl

On 03/06/17 02:15, Frederic Barrat wrote: Fix error path if we can't copy user structure on CXL_IOCTL_START_WORK ioctl. Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan -- Andrew Donnellan

[PATCH] net/phy: Make phy_ethtool_ksettings_get return void

Make return value void since function never return meaningfull value Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c| 3 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c

Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 17:18:39 +1000 > Balbir Singh wrote: > >> For CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX align __init_begin to 16M. >> We use 16M since its the larger of 2M on radix and 16M >> on hash for our

[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix spelling mistake: "Attemping" -> "Attempting"

From: Colin Ian King Trivial fix to spelling mistake in pr_debug message Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] net/phy: Make phy_ethtool_ksettings_get return void

Hi Yuval, [auto build test ERROR on net-next/master] [also build test ERROR on v4.12-rc3 next-20170602] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system] url:

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kernel: improve FP and vector registers restoration

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 11:38:14AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 19:42:14 -0300 > Breno Leitao wrote: > > > Hi Anton, > > > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 08:04:11AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Hi Breno, > > > > > > > Currently tsk->thread->load_vec

[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: context_switch use private futexes with threads

This reduces overhead of mutex locking and increases context switch rate significantly (which helps to measure and profile the context switch path). Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin --- .../selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch.c | 53 ++ 1 file