diff mbox

powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack

Message ID 1311045442.25044.361.camel@pasglop (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Headers show

Commit Message

Benjamin Herrenschmidt July 19, 2011, 3:17 a.m. UTC 
We already did it for hard IRQs but it looks like we forgot
to do it for softirqs. Without this, we would lose flags
such as TIF_NEED_RESCHED set using current_thread_info()
by something running of a softirq.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 164fb6c..4e7f1aa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -451,11 +451,18 @@  static inline void do_softirq_onstack(void)
 	curtp = current_thread_info();
 	irqtp = softirq_ctx[smp_processor_id()];
 	irqtp->task = curtp->task;
+	irqtp->flags = 0;
 	current->thread.ksp_limit = (unsigned long)irqtp +
 				    _ALIGN_UP(sizeof(struct thread_info), 16);
 	call_do_softirq(irqtp);
 	current->thread.ksp_limit = saved_sp_limit;
 	irqtp->task = NULL;
+
+	/* Set any flag that may have been set on the
+	 * alternate stack
+	 */
+	if (irqtp->flags)
+		set_bits(irqtp->flags, &curtp->flags);
 }
 
 void do_softirq(void)