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Revision 8ac71d7e46b94a4fc8ffc6f1c88004cdf24459e8 authored by Vincent Chen on 14 August 2019, 08:23:52 UTC, committed by Paul Walmsley on 14 August 2019, 20:11:11 UTC
  The following two reasons cause FP registers are sometimes not
initialized before starting the user program.
1. Currently, the FP context is initialized in flush_thread() function
   and we expect these initial values to be restored to FP register when
   doing FP context switch. However, the FP context switch only occurs in
   switch_to function. Hence, if this process does not be scheduled out
   and scheduled in before entering the user space, the FP registers
   have no chance to initialize.
2. In flush_thread(), the state of reg->sstatus.FS inherits from the
   parent. Hence, the state of reg->sstatus.FS may be dirty. If this
   process is scheduled out during flush_thread() and initializing the
   FP register, the fstate_save() in switch_to will corrupt the FP context
   which has been initialized until flush_thread().

  To solve the 1st case, the initialization of the FP register will be
completed in start_thread(). It makes sure all FP registers are initialized
before starting the user program. For the 2nd case, the state of
reg->sstatus.FS in start_thread will be set to SR_FS_OFF to prevent this
process from corrupting FP context in doing context save. The FP state is
set to SR_FS_INITIAL in start_trhead().

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixes: 7db91e57a0acd ("RISC-V: Task implementation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[paul.walmsley@sifive.com: fixed brace alignment issue reported by
 checkpatch]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
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Tip revision: 8ac71d7e46b94a4fc8ffc6f1c88004cdf24459e8 authored by Vincent Chen on 14 August 2019, 08:23:52 UTC
riscv: Correct the initialized flow of FP register
Tip revision: 8ac71d7
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