From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt This patch fixes more cases of possible preempt issue when testing MSR for FP or VEC bits and then doing giveup_fpu or giveup_altivec that I missed in my previous round of fixes (bk get helps before grepping ;) I also change the single step and program check exceptions to not re-enable interrupts right away on C code entry, it was useless and would cause interesting issues with preempt & xmon --- 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c | 8 ++++++-- 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S | 4 ++-- 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/ptrace.c | 8 ++++++++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c | 9 +++++++-- 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ppc/kernel/align.c~ppc32-preempt-fixes arch/ppc/kernel/align.c --- 25/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c~ppc32-preempt-fixes 2004-03-28 22:54:47.842801856 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c 2004-03-28 22:54:47.849800792 -0800 @@ -262,8 +262,12 @@ fix_alignment(struct pt_regs *regs) return -EFAULT; /* bad address */ } - if ((flags & F) && (regs->msr & MSR_FP)) - giveup_fpu(current); + if (flags & F) { + preempt_disable(); + if (regs->msr & MSR_FP) + giveup_fpu(current); + preempt_enable(); + } if (flags & M) return 0; /* too hard for now */ diff -puN arch/ppc/kernel/head.S~ppc32-preempt-fixes arch/ppc/kernel/head.S --- 25/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S~ppc32-preempt-fixes 2004-03-28 22:54:47.843801704 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S 2004-03-28 22:54:47.851800488 -0800 @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Alignment: EXC_XFER_EE(0x600, AlignmentException) /* Program check exception */ - EXCEPTION(0x700, ProgramCheck, ProgramCheckException, EXC_XFER_EE) + EXCEPTION(0x700, ProgramCheck, ProgramCheckException, EXC_XFER_STD) /* Floating-point unavailable */ . = 0x800 @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ SystemCall: EXC_XFER_EE_LITE(0xc00, DoSyscall) /* Single step - not used on 601 */ - EXCEPTION(0xd00, SingleStep, SingleStepException, EXC_XFER_EE) + EXCEPTION(0xd00, SingleStep, SingleStepException, EXC_XFER_STD) EXCEPTION(0xe00, Trap_0e, UnknownException, EXC_XFER_EE) /* diff -puN arch/ppc/kernel/ptrace.c~ppc32-preempt-fixes arch/ppc/kernel/ptrace.c --- 25/arch/ppc/kernel/ptrace.c~ppc32-preempt-fixes 2004-03-28 22:54:47.845801400 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/ptrace.c 2004-03-28 22:54:47.851800488 -0800 @@ -242,8 +242,10 @@ int sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, l if (index < PT_FPR0) { tmp = get_reg(child, (int) index); } else { + preempt_disable(); if (child->thread.regs->msr & MSR_FP) giveup_fpu(child); + preempt_enable(); tmp = ((unsigned long *)child->thread.fpr)[index - PT_FPR0]; } ret = put_user(tmp,(unsigned long *) data); @@ -276,8 +278,10 @@ int sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, l if (index < PT_FPR0) { ret = put_reg(child, index, data); } else { + preempt_disable(); if (child->thread.regs->msr & MSR_FP) giveup_fpu(child); + preempt_enable(); ((unsigned long *)child->thread.fpr)[index - PT_FPR0] = data; ret = 0; } @@ -338,8 +342,10 @@ int sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, l #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC case PTRACE_GETVRREGS: /* Get the child altivec register state. */ + preempt_disable(); if (child->thread.regs->msr & MSR_VEC) giveup_altivec(child); + preempt_enable(); ret = get_vrregs((unsigned long *)data, child); break; @@ -347,8 +353,10 @@ int sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, l /* Set the child altivec register state. */ /* this is to clear the MSR_VEC bit to force a reload * of register state from memory */ + preempt_disable(); if (child->thread.regs->msr & MSR_VEC) giveup_altivec(child); + preempt_enable(); ret = set_vrregs(child, (unsigned long *)data); break; #endif diff -puN arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c~ppc32-preempt-fixes arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c --- 25/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c~ppc32-preempt-fixes 2004-03-28 22:54:47.847801096 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c 2004-03-28 22:54:47.852800336 -0800 @@ -191,8 +191,15 @@ save_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, str { /* save general and floating-point registers */ CHECK_FULL_REGS(regs); + preempt_disable(); if (regs->msr & MSR_FP) giveup_fpu(current); +#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC + if (current->thread.used_vr && (regs->msr & MSR_VEC)) + giveup_altivec(current); +#endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */ + preempt_enable(); + if (__copy_to_user(&frame->mc_gregs, regs, GP_REGS_SIZE) || __copy_to_user(&frame->mc_fregs, current->thread.fpr, ELF_NFPREG * sizeof(double))) @@ -203,8 +210,6 @@ save_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, str #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC /* save altivec registers */ if (current->thread.used_vr) { - if (regs->msr & MSR_VEC) - giveup_altivec(current); if (__copy_to_user(&frame->mc_vregs, current->thread.vr, ELF_NVRREG * sizeof(vector128))) return 1; _