On Monday, 31 October 2016 16:25:44 GMT Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Complement commit 0ae8dceaebe3 ("Merge with 2.3.10.") and use the local
> `fault' handler to recover from FP sigcontext access violation faults,
> like corresponding code does in r4k_fpu.S. The `bad_stack' handler is
> in syscall.c and is not suitable here as we want to propagate the error
> condition up through the caller rather than killing the thread outright.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@imgtec.com>
> ---
> I guess it hardly ever triggers and code still builds, so it has aged so
> well...
>
> Maciej
>
> linux-mips-isa1-sig-fp-context-fault.patch
> Index: linux-sfr-test/arch/mips/kernel/r2300_fpu.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-sfr-test.orig/arch/mips/kernel/r2300_fpu.S 2016-10-22
> 02:36:46.000000000 +0100 +++
> linux-sfr-test/arch/mips/kernel/r2300_fpu.S 2016-10-22 02:37:20.891186000
> +0100 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
> #define EX(a,b) \
> 9: a,##b; \
> .section __ex_table,"a"; \
> - PTR 9b,bad_stack; \
> + PTR 9b,fault; \
> .previous
>
> .set noreorder
Hi Maciej,
Looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@imgtec.com>
Thanks,
Paul
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