powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
At boot the FSCR is initialised via one of two paths. On most systems it's set to a hard coded value in __init_FSCR(). On newer skiboot systems we use the device tree CPU features binding, where firmware can tell Linux what bits to set in FSCR (and HFSCR). In both cases the value that's configured at boot is not propagated into the init_task.thread.fscr value prior to the initial fork of init (pid 1), which means the value is not used by any processes other than swapper (the idle task). For the __init_FSCR() case this is OK, because the value in init_task.thread.fscr is initialised to something sensible. However it does mean that the value set in __init_FSCR() is not used other than for swapper, which is odd and confusing. The bigger problem is for the device tree CPU features case it prevents firmware from setting (or clearing) FSCR bits for use by user space. This means all existing kernels can not have features enabled/disabled by firmware if those features require setting/clearing FSCR bits. We can handle both cases by saving the FSCR value into init_task.thread.fscr after we have initialised it at boot. This fixes the bug for device tree CPU features, and will allow us to simplify the initialisation for the __init_FSCR() case in a future patch. Fixes: 5a61ef74 ("powerpc/64s: Support new device tree binding for discovering CPU features") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+ Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527145843.2761782-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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