On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 05:44:18PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 8:08 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer > <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > this comes with it's own memcpy/memset and stuff, I don't see a reason why > > COP2 needs to be enabled there, > gslq/gssq can also be generated by toolchains. I don't want to introduce every single CPU optimization bits into such a closed first stage loader. So please use $(filter-out) in arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile to disable creation of 16byte load/stores. > > which is correct for all user space process, otherwise the whole > > cop2 exception thing wouldn't work. And if cop2 exception handling > > has been run it's set in THREAD_STATUS. > > > THREAD_STATUS means thread_struct.cp0_status, which is the cp0_status > when a process runs in kernel-space. KSTK_STATUS (what you have seen > in copy_thread_tls() below) means cp0_status in a process's kernel > stack, which saves the cp0_status when a process runs in user-space. > Whether COP2 exception can work depends on that KSTK_STATUS (but not > THREAD_STATUS) should not contain CU2 at the first time. So, whether > or not THREAD_STATUS contains CU2, it won't break COP2 handling. so why don't we fix the the in-kernel cp0_status instead ? How about this ? diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c index 90b869297893..26fb77a8d406 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp, /* Put the stack after the struct pt_regs. */ childksp = (unsigned long) childregs; p->thread.cp0_status = read_c0_status() & ~(ST0_CU2|ST0_CU1); + p->thread.cp0_status |= ST0_KERNEL_CUMASK; if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { /* kernel thread */ unsigned long status = p->thread.cp0_status; Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]