On Friday 17 August 2007 11:21:14 am Luck, Tony wrote: > > IA64_PSR_RI is in IPSR_MASK, apparently by intent. > > If you want to change the behavior, you should simply change that mask. > > psr.ri is more complex because it is two bits where not all of the > possible bit settings are defined. We definitely want to allow ptrace > to set psr.ri (how else can we single step through instructions in > a bundle?) But we should only allow psr.ri to be set to 0, 1, or 2. This confused me, too, because the changelog and comments say "PSR.ri bits 3 are reserved" and "psr.ri bits 11 are reserved". Something like "PSR.ri value 3 is reserved" would have made the intent more clear. Bjorn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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