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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2006-02-25 21:09:00 (GMT)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-02-28 05:25:54 (GMT)
commit634473db86502b6444c3cebd279a06e0b8737527 (patch)
tree15b898352bc7fbfbc1a6cc9ef674eef89313dc59 /arch/powerpc
parent827c1a6c1a5dcb2902fecfb648f9af6a532934eb (diff)
downloadlinux-634473db86502b6444c3cebd279a06e0b8737527.tar.xz
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-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 ccaeda5..4ee871f 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 */