I posted the following problem on the list almost a year ago, but it
still hasn't made into the SGI CVS.
I think there is a bug in the _save_fp_context function in
arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S
The problem is the following piece of code:
jr ra
.set nomacro
EX(sw t0,SC_FPC_EIR(a0))
.set macro
We do not handle entries in the __ex_table which is located in a branch
delay.
So we need to handle the situation where we take a page fault on an
instruction which is located in a brach delay slot, or we don't put the
"potential" faulting instruction in a delay slot.
This situation probably doesn't generally hit people since it hasn't
been fix yet, but if you try run something nasty like Crashme, you will
get hit by this problem.
I suggest the following patch.
/Carsten
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Index: arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S
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RCS file: /cvs/linux/arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 r4k_fpu.S
--- arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S 2001/04/11 05:19:46 1.12
+++ arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S 2002/01/17 14:21:09
@@ -50,11 +50,10 @@
EX(sdc1 $f30,(SC_FPREGS+240)(a0))
EX(sw t1,SC_FPC_CSR(a0))
cfc1 t0,$0 # implementation/version
+ EX(sw t0,SC_FPC_EIR(a0))
jr ra
- .set nomacro
- EX(sw t0,SC_FPC_EIR(a0))
- .set macro
+ nop
END(_save_fp_context)
/*
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