| To: | Kip Walker <kwalker@broadcom.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: do_ri and EPC adjustment |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
| Date: | Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:51:42 +0200 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <3D9E10DF.C4C305B2@broadcom.com>; from kwalker@broadcom.com on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0700 |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <3D9E10DF.C4C305B2@broadcom.com> |
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0700, Kip Walker wrote: > Sorry if this has already been discussed, but why does do_ri() adjust > the EPC in compute_return_epc() before delivering the SIGILL to a user > process? The original reason was to avoid having knowledge weather to skip over an instruction or not from the signal return path. For various reasons this seems a wrong decission. Ralf |
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