powerpc: Emulate FP/vector/VSX loads/stores correctly when regs not live
At present, the analyse_instr/emulate_step code checks for the relevant MSR_FP/VEC/VSX bit being set when a FP/VMX/VSX load or store is decoded, but doesn't recheck the bit before reading or writing the relevant FP/VMX/VSX register in emulate_step(). Since we don't have preemption disabled, it is possible that we get preempted between checking the MSR bit and doing the register access. If that happened, then the registers would have been saved to the thread_struct for the current process. Accesses to the CPU registers would then potentially read stale values, or write values that would never be seen by the user process. Another way that the registers can become non-live is if a page fault occurs when accessing user memory, and the page fault code calls a copy routine that wants to use the VMX or VSX registers. To fix this, the code for all the FP/VMX/VSX loads gets restructured so that it forms an image in a local variable of the desired register contents, then disables preemption, checks the MSR bit and either sets the CPU register or writes the value to the thread struct. Similarly, the code for stores checks the MSR bit, copies either the CPU register or the thread struct to a local variable, then reenables preemption and then copies the register image to memory. If the instruction being emulated is in the kernel, then we must not use the register values in the thread_struct. In this case, if the relevant MSR enable bit is not set, then emulate_step refuses to emulate the instruction. Signed-off-by:Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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