powerpc: Correct DSCR during TM context switch

Correct the DSCR SPR becoming temporarily corrupted if a task is
context switched during a transaction.

The problem occurs while suspending the task and is caused by saving
the DSCR to thread.dscr after it has already been set to the CPU's
default value:

__switch_to() calls __switch_to_tm()
	which calls tm_reclaim_task()
	which calls tm_reclaim_thread()
	which calls tm_reclaim()
		where the DSCR is set to the CPU's default
__switch_to() calls _switch()
		where thread.dscr is set to the DSCR

When the task is resumed, it's transaction will be doomed (as usual)
and the DSCR SPR will be corrupted, although the checkpointed value
will be correct. Therefore the DSCR will be immediately corrected by
the transaction aborting, unless it has been suspended. In that case
the incorrect value can be seen by the task until it resumes the
transaction.

The fix is to treat the DSCR similarly to the TAR and save it early
in __switch_to().

A program exposing the problem is added to the kernel self tests as:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-resched-dscr.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 8a1edbe26b8f..be99774d3f44 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -755,15 +755,15 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
 
 	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
 
-	/* Back up the TAR across context switches.
+	/* Back up the TAR and DSCR 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 the TAR and DSCR here before we do treclaim/trecheckpoint as
+	 * these will change them.
 	 */
-	save_tar(&prev->thread);
+	save_early_sprs(&prev->thread);
 
 	__switch_to_tm(prev);