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Commit 8eb4bd66 authored by Michael Holzheu's avatar Michael Holzheu Committed by Martin Schwidefsky
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[S390] kernel: Initialize register 14 when starting new CPU



When starting a new CPU we currently jump to start_secondary() without
setting register 14 (the return address) correctly. Therefore on the stack
frame for start_secondary an invalid return address is stored. This leads
to wrong stack back traces in kernel dumps.

Example:

 #00 [1f33fe48] cpu_idle at 10614a
 #01 [1f33fe90] start_secondary at 54fa88
 #02 [1f33feb8] (null) at 0                 <--- invalid

To fix this start_secondary() is called now with basr/brasl that sets
register 14 correctly. The output of the stack backtrace looks then
like the following:

 #00 [1f33fe48] cpu_idle at 10614a
 #01 [1f33fe90] start_secondary at 54fa88
 #02 [1f33feb8] restart_base at 54f41e      <--- correct

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent aade6c0d
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