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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2006-02-25 22:09:00 +0100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-02-28 06:25:54 +0100
commit634473db86502b6444c3cebd279a06e0b8737527 (patch)
tree15b898352bc7fbfbc1a6cc9ef674eef89313dc59
parent[PATCH] powerpc: fix dynamic PCI probe regression (diff)
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[PATCH] powerpc: vdso 64bits gettimeofday bug
A bug in the assembly code of the vdso can cause gettimeofday() to hang or to return incorrect results. The wrong register was used to test for pending updates of the calibration variables and to create a dependency for subsequent loads. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
index ccaeda5136d1..4ee871f1cadb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__do_get_xsec)
.cfi_startproc
/* check for update count & load values */
1: ld r8,CFG_TB_UPDATE_COUNT(r3)
- andi. r0,r4,1 /* pending update ? loop */
+ andi. r0,r8,1 /* pending update ? loop */
bne- 1b
- xor r0,r4,r4 /* create dependency */
+ xor r0,r8,r8 /* create dependency */
add r3,r3,r0
/* Get TB & offset it */