[IA64] Do not assume output registers be reservered.
authorZou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:26:51 +0000 (07:26 +0800)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:12:08 +0000 (16:12 -0700)
commitacb15c85de57d81d773b6e4184b7cb143ce83eba
tree3f8363f32e3a0bad1a7bce90915651e9d95b4711
parentc7c17423b9ea3c5559cfb480a00844f1df9eed06
[IA64] Do not assume output registers be reservered.

We found an issue in pal.S.

According to the software runtime SPEC,
The caller's output registers do not need to be preserved for
caller. The callee may reuse input registers for any other
purpose within the procedure.

in ia64_pal_call_phys_stacked,

input registers are copied to output registers before call
into ia64_switch_mode_phys, then used to call into PAL. This
assumes output registers are preserved in ia64_switch_mode_phys,
which may not be true.

In this particular case, ia64_switch_mode_phys alloc a null frame
, and mask off psr.i.
If an interrupt comes at this small window,
or an MCA comes inside the procedure, output registers
maybe changed,
then the pal call may got some staled input registers.

This patch moves the copies from input to output
after ia64_switch_mode_phys to follow the software
runtime convention.

It  also removed some unused labels in
ia64_pal_call_phys_stacked.

Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S