Subject: [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: Fix DSCR inheritance in copy_thread()

From: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:49:47 +1000

If the default DSCR is non zero we set thread.dscr_inherit in
copy_thread() meaning the new thread and all its children will ignore
future updates to the default DSCR. This is not intended and is
a change in behaviour that a number of our users have hit.

We just need to inherit thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit from
the parent which ends up being much simpler.

This was found with the following test case:

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

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>  
Cc: <[email-masked]> # 3.0+
---

Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -802,16 +802,8 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 
 	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DSCR)) {
-		if (current->thread.dscr_inherit) {
-			p->thread.dscr_inherit = 1;
-			p->thread.dscr = current->thread.dscr;
-		} else if (0 != dscr_default) {
-			p->thread.dscr_inherit = 1;
-			p->thread.dscr = dscr_default;
-		} else {
-			p->thread.dscr_inherit = 0;
-			p->thread.dscr = 0;
-		}
+		p->thread.dscr_inherit = current->thread.dscr_inherit;
+		p->thread.dscr = current->thread.dscr;
 	}
 #endif