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

powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: powerpc-fix-vsx-enabling-flushing-to-also-test-msr_fp-and-msr_vec.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 5a69aec945d27e78abac9fd032533d3aaebf7c1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:01:14 +1000 Subject: powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org

commit 5a69aec945d27e78abac9fd032533d3aaebf7c1e upstream.

VSX uses a combination of the old vector registers, the old FP registers and new "second halves" of the FP registers.

Thus when we need to see the VSX state in the thread struct (flush_vsx_to_thread()) or when we'll use the VSX in the kernel (enable_kernel_vsx()) we need to ensure they are all flushed into the thread struct if either of them is individually enabled.

Unfortunately we only tested if the whole VSX was enabled, not if they were individually enabled.

Fixes: 72cd7b44bc99 ("powerpc: Uncomment and make enable_kernel_vsx() routine available") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org [mpe: Backported due to changed context] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -209,7 +209,8 @@ void enable_kernel_vsx(void) WARN_ON(preemptible());

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP - if (current->thread.regs && (current->thread.regs->msr & MSR_VSX)) + if (current->thread.regs && + (current->thread.regs->msr & (MSR_VSX|MSR_VEC|MSR_FP))) giveup_vsx(current); else giveup_vsx(NULL); /* just enable vsx for kernel - force */ @@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ void flush_vsx_to_thread(struct task_str { if (tsk->thread.regs) { preempt_disable(); - if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & MSR_VSX) { + if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & (MSR_VSX|MSR_VEC|MSR_FP)) { #ifdef CONFIG_SMP BUG_ON(tsk != current); #endif

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from benh@kernel.crashing.org are

queue-4.4/powerpc-fix-vsx-enabling-flushing-to-also-test-msr_fp-and-msr_vec.patch