Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 16:14:24 -0500 "Barry Arndt" <bar...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:20:12 -0300 Breno Leitao <bren...@br.ibm.com> > wrote: > > Although lack of recent updates, we are still working on this problem. > > > > Barry (on CC) is allocated to work on this issue and should have updates > soon. > > > > > > > > The offending line of code that Breno mentioned earlier was part of a > larger patch. Looking at that larger patch, I'm afraid that just removing > the offending line of code would make that patch incomplete and could > possibly leave other errors behind. > > We have a few patches for other issues in this area of code. I tested a > couple of them, but they did not resolve this issue. I'm working with > another developer (who is currently working on other items related to this > one) to gather more debug information to narrow down to the correct fix.
Is this bug still present?
I can see a fix to VSX handling in the kernel that went into mainline
just after this, and then into 4.9.45:
commit 5a69aec945d27e78abac9fd032533d3aaebf7c1e
Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed Aug 16 16:01:14 2017 +1000
powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC
Ben.
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