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2007-09-14[POWERPC] Handle alignment faults on SPE load/store instructionsKumar Gala
This adds code to handle alignment traps generated by the following SPE (signal processing engine) load/store instructions, by emulating the instruction in the kernel (as is done for other instructions that generate alignment traps): evldd[x] Vector Load Double Word into Double Word [Indexed] evldw[x] Vector Load Double into Two Words [Indexed] evldh[x] Vector Load Double into Four Half Words [Indexed] evlhhesplat[x] Vector Load Half Word into Half Words Even and Splat [Indexed] evlhhousplat[x] Vector Load Half Word into Half Word Odd Unsigned and Splat [Indexed] evlhhossplat[x] Vector Load Half Word into Half Word Odd Signed and Splat [Indexed] evlwhe[x] Vector Load Word into Two Half Words Even [Indexed] evlwhou[x] Vector Load Word into Two Half Words Odd Unsigned (zero-extended) [Indexed] evlwhos[x] Vector Load Word into Two Half Words Odd Signed (with sign extension) [Indexed] evlwwsplat[x] Vector Load Word into Word and Splat [Indexed] evlwhsplat[x] Vector Load Word into Two Half Words and Splat [Indexed] evstdd[x] Vector Store Double of Double [Indexed] evstdw[x] Vector Store Double of Two Words [Indexed] evstdh[x] Vector Store Double of Four Half Words [Indexed] evstwhe[x] Vector Store Word of Two Half Words from Even [Indexed] evstwho[x] Vector Store Word of Two Half Words from Odd [Indexed] evstwwe[x] Vector Store Word of Word from Even [Indexed] evstwwo[x] Vector Store Word of Word from Odd [Indexed] Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Handle alignment faults on new FP load/store instructionsPaul Mackerras
This adds code to handle alignment traps generated by the following new floating-point load/store instructions, by emulating the instruction in the kernel (as is done for other instructions that generate alignment traps): lfiwax load floating-point as integer word algebraic indexed stfiwx store floating-point as integer word indexed lfdp load floating-point double pair lfdpx load floating-point double pair indexed stfdp store floating-point double pair stfdpx store floating-point double pair indexed All these except stfiwx are new in POWER6. lfdp/lfdpx/stfdp/stfdpx load and store 16 bytes of memory into an even/odd FP register pair. In little-endian mode each 8-byte value is byte-reversed separately (i.e. not as a 16-byte unit). lfiwax/stfiwx load or store the lower 4 bytes of a floating-point register from/to memory; lfiwax sets the upper 4 bytes of the FP register to the sign extension of the value loaded. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13[POWERPC] Alignment exception uses __get/put_user_inatomicBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Make the alignment exception handler use the new _inatomic variants of __get/put_user. This fixes erroneous warnings in the very rare cases where we manage to have copy_tofrom_user_inatomic() trigger an alignment exception. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctlPaul Mackerras
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change their endian mode via prctl. This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for "PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian. We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian user/kernel ABI. If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is restored to what it was when the signal was delivered. We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and one for true little-endian. Most of the classic 32-bit processors support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature table. There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry. This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-18[PATCH] powerpc: merge align.cBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch merges align.c, the result isn't quite what was in ppc64 nor what was in ppc32 :) It should implement all the functionalities of both though. Kumar, since you played with that in the past, I suppose you have some test cases for verifying that it works properly before I dig out the 601 machine ? :) Since it's likely that I won't be able to test all scenario, code inspection is much welcome. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>