Re: [PATCH 32/35] m68k: add ColdFire FPU support for the V4e ColdFire CPU's

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Hi Geert,

On 25/12/11 05:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 04:15,<gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
@@ -570,15 +616,12 @@ static inline int rt_save_fpu_state(struct ucontext __user *uc, struct pt_regs *
	return err;
 }

-	__asm__ volatile (".chip 68k/68881\n\t"
-			  "fsave %0\n\t"
-			  ".chip 68k"
-			  : : "m" (*fpstate) : "memory");
+	__asm__ volatile ("fsave %0" : : "m" (*fpstate) : "memory");

This change breaks one of my test configs, which builds for 68040 only:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:475: Error: invalid instruction for this
architecture; needs 68020 [68k, 68ec020], 68030 [68ec030], 68040
[68ec040], 68060 [68ec060], cpu32 [68330, 68331, 68332, 68333, 68334,
68336, 68340, 68341, 68349, 68360], 547x [5470, 5471, 5472, 5473,
5474, 5475], 548x [5480, 5481, 5482, 5483, 5484, 5485] -- statement
`fsave -540(%fp)' ignored

You can reproduce it by taking e.g. amiga_defconfig and disabling all of
CONFIG_M68[236]0, or by manually compiling arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
with "-m68040" added (that's what 68040-only does).

By convention, we always switch to the needed CPU type using the ".chip"
directive, and switch back to generic 68k afterwards. So I'd expect it to fail
for all my builds, but it only does for the 68040-only ones...

Yeah, the fail or not cases do seem strange here. But at the heart
of it all it is the switching back to 68k that causes problems.
And I think it is larger than just the ColdFire case.

If we are compiling specifically for a 68040 machine, where we put
a -m68040 switch on the command line, isn't all these ".chip 68k"
lines going to undo the CPU choice - and result in us now compiling
large parts of the code for the default 68020 instead of the chosen
68040?

Now I realize that for the most part this probably isn't a
big deal on any of the 68020/68030/68040/68060 (I don't know if gcc
does any clever code optimizations based on those differences).

It is a big deal we are building ColdFire, switching to 68k code
generation is wrong... and of course doesn't work.

I can easily fix this specific case. The calls to fsave and frestore
just need to be surrounded by a CPU_IS_COLDFIRE check. So the code
ends up looking like this:

        if (CPU_IS_COLDFIRE) {
                __asm__ volatile ("fsave %0"
                                  : : "m" (*sc->sc_fpstate) : "memory");
        } else {
                __asm__ volatile (".chip 68k/68881\n\t"
                                  "fsave %0\n\t"
                                  ".chip 68k"
                                  : : "m" (*sc->sc_fpstate) : "memory");
        }

And that now seems to compile for all the cases I tried (so good for
ColdFire, good for pure 68040 and mixed 68020/68030/68040/68060).
I have updated the patches based on this, and pushed them back up to
git.kernel.org.

I am still concerned about the use of ".chip 68k" in general though.
Just not sure how we can avoid it. I guess there is no way to jus
t revert to the original CPU choice?

Regards
Greg



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