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Commit 510d8636 authored by Matt Redfearn's avatar Matt Redfearn Committed by Ralf Baechle
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MIPS: Only change $28 to thread_info if coming from user mode



The SAVE_SOME macro is used to save the execution context on all
exceptions.
If an exception occurs while executing user code, the stack is switched
to the kernel's stack for the current task, and register $28 is switched
to point to the current_thread_info, which is at the bottom of the stack
region.
If the exception occurs while executing kernel code, the stack is left,
and this change ensures that register $28 is not updated. This is the
correct behaviour when the kernel can be executing on the separate irq
stack, because the thread_info will not be at the base of it.

With this change, register $28 is only switched to it's kernel
conventional usage of the currrent thread info pointer at the point at
which execution enters kernel space. Doing it on every exception was
redundant, but OK without an IRQ stack, but will be erroneous once that
is introduced.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14742/


Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
parent d42d8d10
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