On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 14:20 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:
@@ -145,6 +146,24 @@ END_FW_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR)
andi. r11,r10,_TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE
bne syscall_dotrace
.Lsyscall_dotrace_cont:
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+ b 1f
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.
Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
