Hello Maciej,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:05:04AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>
> > > > Well, I think I take my words back. Handling the ldc1/sdc1 cases in
> > > > MIPS32 is
> > > > tricker than I thought first, because I can't use ldl/ldr or sdl/sdr
> > > > there.
> > > > Given my ability with mips assembly, I leave the patch as is.
> I suggest that for 32-bit kernels you simply reuse the existing snippets
> from that function and handle ldc1/sdc1 with a pair of lwl/ldr or swl/swr
> pairs ordered as appropriate for the endianness selected -- that should be
> fairly easy.
Hm I still don't understand well enough how to do that. Would I need to get some
aligned memory (a stack automatic variable for example), copy the double word
there with proper endianness, and then call again ldc1? (similar for sdc1)
> Also regardless of that, please make sure that your code handles the two
> possible settings of CP0 Status register's bit FR correctly, as the 32-bit
> halves of floating-point data are distributed differently across
> floating-point registers based on this bit's setting (check if an o32 and
> an n64 or n32 program gets these values right).
Hm I'm failing to find in the mips-iv.pdf how to check that FR bit, although I
see it mentioned there. Sorry.
> > As Jonas reported, I think that maybe I should rework the patch for it to
> > emit
> > sigbus instead of sigill on ldc1,ldc1 for mips32. Do I understand it right?
>
> Have you checked your code against a non-FPU processor (or with the
> "nofpu" kernel option) too?
No. Would in that case the processor have the fpu disabled? I understand that
the code path is called only in a particular case of 'unaligned access'
exception.
Thank you for your comments.
Regards,
Lluís.
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