Backtraces will not recognise the fork system call interrupt without the regs marker. And at least perf starts unwinding the user stack from gpr[1] directly, but regular interrupt entry from userspace creates the back chain to the user stack, so do this too, to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index a097879b0474..27956831fa5d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -1728,12 +1728,13 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args) /* Create initial stack frame. */ sp -= STACK_USER_INT_FRAME_SIZE; - ((unsigned long *)sp)[0] = 0; + *(unsigned long *)(sp + STACK_INT_FRAME_MARKER) = STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER; /* Copy registers */ childregs = (struct pt_regs *)(sp + STACK_INT_FRAME_REGS); if (unlikely(args->fn)) { /* kernel thread */ + ((unsigned long *)sp)[0] = 0; memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs)); childregs->gpr[1] = sp + STACK_USER_INT_FRAME_SIZE; /* function */ @@ -1753,6 +1754,7 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args) *childregs = *regs; if (usp) childregs->gpr[1] = usp; + ((unsigned long *)sp)[0] = childregs->gpr[1]; p->thread.regs = childregs; /* 64s sets this in ret_from_fork */ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)) -- 2.37.2