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MIPS: Only change $28 to thread_info if coming from user mode
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commit 510d863 upstream.

The SAVE_SOME macro is used to save the execution context on all
exceptions.
If an exception occurs while executing user code, the stack is switched
to the kernel's stack for the current task, and register $28 is switched
to point to the current_thread_info, which is at the bottom of the stack
region.
If the exception occurs while executing kernel code, the stack is left,
and this change ensures that register $28 is not updated. This is the
correct behaviour when the kernel can be executing on the separate irq
stack, because the thread_info will not be at the base of it.

With this change, register $28 is only switched to it's kernel
conventional usage of the currrent thread info pointer at the point at
which execution enters kernel space. Doing it on every exception was
redundant, but OK without an IRQ stack, but will be erroneous once that
is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14742/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Matt Redfearn authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Apr 18, 2017
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LONG_S $25, PT_R25(sp)
LONG_S $28, PT_R28(sp)
LONG_S $31, PT_R31(sp)

/* Set thread_info if we're coming from user mode */
mfc0 k0, CP0_STATUS
sll k0, 3 /* extract cu0 bit */
bltz k0, 9f

ori $28, sp, _THREAD_MASK
xori $28, _THREAD_MASK
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
.set mips64
pref 0, 0($28) /* Prefetch the current pointer */
#endif
9:
.set pop
.endm

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