Re: [1/5] powerpc: Fix handling of DSCR related facility unavailable exception

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Mon, 2014-08-12 at 06:30:08 UTC, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Currently DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) can be accessed with
> mfspr or mtspr instructions inside a thread via two different SPR
> numbers. One being the user accessible problem state SPR number 0x03
> and the other being the privilege state SPR number 0x11. All access
> through the privilege state SPR number get emulated through illegal
> instruction exception. Any access through the problem state SPR number
> raises one facility unavailable exception which sets the thread based
> dscr_inherit bit and enables DSCR facility through FSCR register thus
> allowing direct access to DSCR without going through this exception in
> the future. We set the thread.dscr_inherit bit whether the access was
> with mfspr or mtspr instruction which is neither correct nor does it
> match the behaviour through the instruction emulation code path driven
> from privilege state SPR number. User currently observes two different
> kind of behaviour when accessing the DSCR through these two SPR numbers.
> This problem can be observed through these two test cases by replacing
> the privilege state SPR number with the problem state SPR number.
> 
> 	(1) http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.c
> 	(2) http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.c

Can you convert those into a selftest please?

cheers