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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S index 930e36099015..2f68fb2ee4fc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S @@ -813,6 +813,13 @@ kernel_dbg_exc: EXCEPTION_COMMON(0x260) CHECK_NAPPING() addi r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD + /* + * XXX: Returning from performance_monitor_exception taken as a + * soft-NMI (Linux irqs disabled) may be risky to use interrupt_return + * and could cause bugs in return or elsewhere. That case should just + * restore registers and return. There is a workaround for one known + * problem in interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare(). + */ bl performance_monitor_exception b interrupt_return |