powerpc: Save the TAR register earlier
This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in __switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this. We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a transaction. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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@@ -600,6 +600,16 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
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struct ppc64_tlb_batch *batch;
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#endif
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/* Back up the TAR across context switches.
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* Note that the TAR is not available for use in the kernel. (To
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* provide this, the TAR should be backed up/restored on exception
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* entry/exit instead, and be in pt_regs. FIXME, this should be in
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* pt_regs anyway (for debug).)
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* Save the TAR here before we do treclaim/trecheckpoint as these
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* will change the TAR.
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*/
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save_tar(&prev->thread);
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__switch_to_tm(prev);
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#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
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