Re: Why mips eret failed?

["wilbur.chan" <wilbur512@gmail.com>]

2010/9/29 David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>:
> On 09/28/2010 09:00 AM, wilbur.chan wrote:

>
> Probably not a good choice.
>
>
>> because it is just a demo,
>
> If you want your demo to work, you cannot clobber all the registers in an
> exception handler.  Most ABIs allow you to clobber only k0 and k1.
>
> In general any exception handler must save and restore all registers it
> modifies except for k0 and k1.  That is the function of SAVE_ALL and
> RESTORE_ALL.


OK, I 've added SAVL_ALL and RESTORE_ALL in handle_int,it works.


 LEAF(handle_int)
        print 'A'                 /* add for debug purpose*/
        SAVE_ALL
        nop
        CLI
        la     t9,do_IRQ
        nop
        jalr   t9
        nop
       RESTORE_ALL
       nop
  END(handle_int)


However, a new problem arised :


if I modify the main_loop like this:


   void main_loop()
 {
    local_irq_enable(); /* enable timer interrupt*/
    while(1)
    {
        loop_test1();

   }
 }
void loop_test1()
{
   loop_test2();
}

void loop_test2()
{

}

That is to say, if main_loop invoke a function that do noting but to
invoke another nop function, the timer interrupt seems

not to work properly，  at fisrt few seconds,  'do_irq_enter' print
every 4 seconds, but after a while ,system print 'A'  from time to

time , but not  print 'do_irq_enter'  any more.   it seemed that ,
system has not acked the  timer interrupt.


If I remove the loop_test1 in main_loop, everything works well.




I don't know why this happened. Any suggestion？  Thank you