Re: [PATCH, RFC] MIPS: Implement the getcontext API

[Brian Foster <brian.foster@innova-card.com>]

On Tuesday 03 March 2009 17:56:25 David Daney wrote:
>[ ... ]
> When (and if) we move the sigreturn trampoline to a vdso we should be
> able to maintain the ABI.

 it's more a matter of “when” rather than “if”.
 there is still an intention here to use XI (we
 have SmartMIPS), which requires not using the
 signal (or FP) trampoline on the stack.

 moving the signal trampoline to a vdso (which
 is(? was?) called, maybe misleadingly, ‘vsyscall’,
 on other architectures) is the obvious solution to
 that part of the puzzle.  and yes, it is possible
 to maintain the ABI; the signal trampoline is still
 also put on the stack, and modulo XI, would work if
 used — the trampoline-on-stack is simply not used
 if there is a vdso with the signal trampoline.

cheers!
        -blf-

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