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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c
index 3cf529ceec5b..ac93a3bd2730 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
if (in_interrupt())
return 0;
- /* This acts as preempt_disable() as well and will make
- * enable_kernel_altivec(). We need to disable page faults
- * as they can call schedule and thus make us lose the VMX
- * context. So on page faults, we just fail which will cause
- * a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
+ preempt_disable();
+ /*
+ * We need to disable page faults as they can call schedule and
+ * thus make us lose the VMX context. So on page faults, we just
+ * fail which will cause a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
*/
pagefault_disable();
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
int exit_vmx_usercopy(void)
{
pagefault_enable();
+ preempt_enable();
return 0;
}