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Commit 18173559 authored by Paul E. Murphy's avatar Paul E. Murphy Committed by Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
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powerpc: Fix tabort usage in syscalls

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.

2015-08-25  Paul E. Murphy  <murphyp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Use
	register other than r0 for tabort, it has special meaning.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Likewise
	* sysdeps/unix.sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S (syscall): Abort
	transaction before starting syscall.
parent fe7faec3
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