Patch "selftests/powerpc: Fix TM resched DSCR test with some compilers" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    selftests/powerpc: Fix TM resched DSCR test with some compilers

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     selftests-powerpc-fix-tm-resched-dscr-test-with-some-compilers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 11:29:04 +1000
Subject: selftests/powerpc: Fix TM resched DSCR test with some compilers

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


[ Upstream commit fe06fe860250a4f01d0eaf70a2563b1997174a74 ]

The tm-resched-dscr test has started failing sometimes, depending on
what compiler it's built with, eg:

  test: tm_resched_dscr
  Check DSCR TM context switch: tm-resched-dscr: tm-resched-dscr.c:76: test_body: Assertion `rv' failed.
  !! child died by signal 6

When it fails we see that the compiler doesn't initialise rv to 1 before
entering the inline asm block. Although that's counter intuitive, it
is allowed because we tell the compiler that the inline asm will write
to rv (using "=r"), meaning the original value is irrelevant.

Marking it as a read/write parameter would presumably work, but it seems
simpler to fix it by setting the initial value of rv in the inline asm.

Fixes: 96d016108640 ("powerpc: Correct DSCR during TM context switch")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-resched-dscr.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-resched-dscr.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-resched-dscr.c
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ int test_body(void)
 	printf("Check DSCR TM context switch: ");
 	fflush(stdout);
 	for (;;) {
-		rv = 1;
 		asm __volatile__ (
 			/* set a known value into the DSCR */
 			"ld      3, %[dscr1];"
 			"mtspr   %[sprn_dscr], 3;"
 
+			"li      %[rv], 1;"
 			/* start and suspend a transaction */
 			TBEGIN
 			"beq     1f;"


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe@ellerman.id.au are

queue-3.18/selftests-powerpc-fix-tm-resched-dscr-test-with-some-compilers.patch
queue-3.18/powerpc-spufs-fix-coredump-of-spu-contexts.patch
queue-3.18/signal-powerpc-document-conflicts-with-si_user-and-sigfpe-and-sigtrap.patch
queue-3.18/powerpc-don-t-clobber-tcr-when-setting-tcr.patch