Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Add emulation for fpureg-mem unaligned access

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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.

 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).

> > why is there a reason for this ? Unaligned FPU access shouts to me simply
> > broken code, go fix that. But maybe I'm wrong ?

 Since we're emulating these accesses at all I concur Lluís we should stay 
consistent across the whole instruction set.

> Right, the patch allows broken code to run further, instead of fail straight.
> The crash can be still achieved disabling the emulation of unaligned accesses
> completely, through debugfs, for example.

 sysmips(MIPS_FIXADE, 0) is another way.

> 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?

  Maciej



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