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Commit 3037a52f authored by Martin Schwidefsky's avatar Martin Schwidefsky
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s390/nmi: do register validation as early as possible


The validation of the CPU registers in the machine check handler is
currently split into two parts. The first part is done at the start
of the low level mcck_int_handler function, this includes the CPU
timer register and the general purpose registers.
The second part is done a bit later in s390_do_machine_check for all
the other registers, including the control registers, floating pointer
control, vector or floating pointer registers, the access registers,
the guarded storage registers, the TOD programmable registers and the
clock comparator.

This is working fine to far but in theory a future extensions could
cause the C code to use registers that are not validated yet. A better
approach is to validate all CPU registers in "safe" assembler code
before any C function is called.

Reviewed-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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