Re: Why mips eret failed?

[Adam Jiang <jiang.adam@gmail.com>]

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Take a look at 

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ddou/tags/u-boot?lang=en

This may help, I suppose. Why don't forward this message to uboot
mailing list?

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:11:32AM +0800, wilbur.chan wrote:
> 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
>