Re: [PATCH v4 13/16] powerpc: Support prefixed instructions in alignment handler

2020-03-23 Thread Jordan Niethe
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:09 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > Jordan Niethe's on March 20, 2020 3:18 pm: > > Alignment interrupts can be caused by prefixed instructions accessing > > memory. Prefixed instructions are not permitted to cross 64-byte > > boundaries. If they do the alignment interrupt is

Re: [PATCH v4 13/16] powerpc: Support prefixed instructions in alignment handler

2020-03-23 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Jordan Niethe's on March 20, 2020 3:18 pm: > Alignment interrupts can be caused by prefixed instructions accessing > memory. Prefixed instructions are not permitted to cross 64-byte > boundaries. If they do the alignment interrupt is invoked with SRR1 > BOUNDARY bit set. If this occurs send a SIGB

[PATCH v4 13/16] powerpc: Support prefixed instructions in alignment handler

2020-03-19 Thread Jordan Niethe
Alignment interrupts can be caused by prefixed instructions accessing memory. Prefixed instructions are not permitted to cross 64-byte boundaries. If they do the alignment interrupt is invoked with SRR1 BOUNDARY bit set. If this occurs send a SIGBUS to the offending process if in user mode. If in