linux/arch
Maciej W. Rozycki 051ff44a8b MIPS: Handle COP3 Unusable exception as COP1X for FP emulation
Our FP emulator is hardcoded for the MIPS IV FP instruction set and does
not match the FP ISA with the general ISA.  However for the few MIPS IV FP
instructions that use the COP1X major opcode it relies on the Coprocessor
Unusable exception to be delivered as a COP1 rather than COP3 exception.
This includes indexed transfer (LDXC1, etc.) and FP multiply-accumulate
(MADD.D, etc.) instructions.

 All the MIPS I, II, III and IV processors and some newer chips that do not
implement the FPU use the COP3 exception however.  Therefore I believe the
kernel should follow and redirect any COP3 Unusable traps to the emulator
unless an actual FPU part or core is present.

 This is a change that implements it.  Any minor opcode encodings that are
not recognised as valid FP instructions are rejected by the emulator and
will result in a SIGILL signal being delivered as they currently do.  We
do not support vendor-specific coprocessor 3 implementations supported
with MIPS I and MIPS II ISA processors; we never set CP0.Status.CU3.

[Ralf: On MIPS IV processors the kernel always enables the XX bit which
replaces the CU3 bit off earlier architecture revisions.]

 If matching between the CPU and the FPU ISA is considered required one
day, this can still be done in the emulator itself.  I think the CpU
exception dispatcher is not the right place to do this anyway, as there
are further differences between MIPS I, MIPS II, MIPS III, MIPS IV and
MIPS32 FP ISAs.

 Corresponding explanation of this implementation is included within the
change itself.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-12-13 18:15:27 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-11-18 09:13:48 -10:00
arm Merge branch 'i2c-embedded/for-current' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux 2012-11-23 11:59:26 -10:00
arm64 arm64: Distinguish between user and kernel XN bits 2012-11-16 15:50:25 +00:00
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cris Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
frv frv: fix the broken preempt 2012-11-02 12:08:25 -04:00
h8300 h8300: add missing L1_CACHE_SHIFT 2012-11-09 06:41:47 +01:00
hexagon Hexagon: Copyright marking changes 2012-10-18 17:07:21 -05:00
ia64 revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages" 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
m68k m68k: fix sigset_t accessor functions 2012-11-18 10:32:16 +01:00
microblaze Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
mips MIPS: Handle COP3 Unusable exception as COP1X for FP emulation 2012-12-13 18:15:27 +01:00
mn10300 UAPI: Make arch/mn10300/include/uapi/asm/setup.h non-empty 2012-10-17 12:32:35 +01:00
openrisc Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
parisc [PARISC] fix user-triggerable panic on parisc 2012-11-22 09:33:12 +00:00
powerpc powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly 2012-11-26 09:14:16 +11:00
s390 s390/mm: have 16 byte aligned struct pages 2012-11-13 11:03:09 +01:00
score Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
sh UAPI: Make arch/sh/include/uapi/asm/hw_breakpoint.h non-empty 2012-10-17 12:32:35 +01:00
sparc Device tree regression fix for v3.7 2012-11-23 12:36:06 -10:00
tile arch/tile: avoid build warnings from duplicate ELF_R_xxx #defines 2012-10-23 10:22:48 -04:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
unicore32 arch/unicore32: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2012-11-09 17:30:10 +08:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-11-23 20:03:14 -10:00
xtensa xtensa: switch to generic sys_execve() 2012-10-25 15:00:44 -07:00
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