[PATCH] powerpc: Fix tabort usage in syscalls
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 21 19:34:00 GMT 2015
"Paul E. Murphy" <murphyp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Fix usage of tabort in generated syscalls. r0 has special meaning
> when used with this instruction, thus it will not generate
> persistent errors, nor return an error code. This mitigates poor
> CPU usage when performing elided critical sections.
>
> Additionally, transactions should be aborted when entering a user
> invoked syscall. Otherwise the results of the transaction may be
> undefined.
This patch looks very good in theory, but it seems your mail client broke the
patch and git is now complaining.
Could you send a new version, please?
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Tulio Magno
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