releases/3.0.57/powerpc-update-dscr-on-all-cpus-when-writing-sysfs-dscr_default.patch

From 1b6ca2a6fe56e7697d57348646e07df08f43b1bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:47:56 +0000
Subject: powerpc: Update DSCR on all CPUs when writing sysfs dscr_default

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

commit 1b6ca2a6fe56e7697d57348646e07df08f43b1bb upstream.

Writing to dscr_default in sysfs doesn't actually change the DSCR -
we rely on a context switch on each CPU to do the work. There is no
guarantee we will get a context switch in a reasonable amount of time
so fire off an IPI to force an immediate change.

This issue was found with the following test case:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.c

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
@@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ static ssize_t show_dscr_default(struct
 	return sprintf(buf, "%lx\n", dscr_default);
 }
 
+static void update_dscr(void *dummy)
+{
+	if (!current->thread.dscr_inherit)
+		mtspr(SPRN_DSCR, dscr_default);
+}
+
 static ssize_t __used store_dscr_default(struct sysdev_class *class,
 		struct sysdev_class_attribute *attr, const char *buf,
 		size_t count)
@@ -204,6 +210,8 @@ static ssize_t __used store_dscr_default
 		return -EINVAL;
 	dscr_default = val;
 
+	on_each_cpu(update_dscr, NULL, 1);
+
 	return count;
 }