From: David Daney <david.da...@cavium.com>
Currently the MIPS FPU emulator uses eXecute Out of Line (XOL) on the
stack to handle instructions in the delay slots of FPU branches.
Because of this MIPS cannot have a non-executable stack.
A previous patch set from Leonid Yegoshin attempts to address the
problem by moving the XOL location to a thread private mapping of a
dedicated page.
I present here an alternative: Add an instruction set emulator and use
it to execute the FPU delay slot instructions. The benefit of this
approach is that we don't have to allocate a page per user-space
thread for XOL, and we keep the TLB handling code slightly simpler as
a result.
Currently this is a proof of concept, as it doesn't yet handle MIPS64
nor microMIPS instructions. But it is sufficient to run the entire
Debian distribution on a FPU-less CPU.
Comments welcome.
David Daney (3):
MIPS: Add FPU emulator counter for non-FPU instructions emulated.
MIPS: Add full ISA emulator.
MIPS: Use full instruction emulation for FPU emulator delay slot
emulation.
arch/mips/include/asm/fpu_emulator.h | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile | 3 +-
arch/mips/kernel/insn-emul.c | 815 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c | 13 +-
arch/mips/math-emu/me-debugfs.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 830 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/insn-emul.c
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