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>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Neuling
2013-08-09 17:29:30 +10:00
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent 2517617e0d
commit c2d52644e2
3 changed files with 19 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -600,6 +600,16 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
struct ppc64_tlb_batch *batch;
#endif
/* Back up the TAR across context switches.
* Note that the TAR is not available for use in the kernel. (To
* provide this, the TAR should be backed up/restored on exception
* entry/exit instead, and be in pt_regs. FIXME, this should be in
* pt_regs anyway (for debug).)
* Save the TAR here before we do treclaim/trecheckpoint as these
* will change the TAR.
*/
save_tar(&prev->thread);
__switch_to_tm(prev);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP