Re: Adding(?) XI support to MIPS-Linux?

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>]

Brian Foster wrote:
>  Whilst thinking about the problem and possible solutions,
>  it occurred to me there could be a defect in the current
>  trampoline:  Suppose there is a signal, either at point A,
>  due to <instr> itself, or at point B, which is caught on
>  this stack, and the user-land signal-handler ‘return’s.
>
>  Doesn't the signal-handler/sigreturn stack-frame overwrite
>  the FP trampoline?   In which case, when the signal-hander
>  returns, more-or-less anything could happen.  (And very
>  unlikely to be what's wanted!)
>   
When I first integrated the FP emulator into the kernel, back in 2.2.x, 
I seem to
recall that someone found this problem and that I came up with a tweak 
to signal
stack setup that protected the FP branch delay slot trampoline.  Maybe 
I'm mistaken,
or maybe the tweak was lost?

         Regards,

         Kevin K.