From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Current delay slot handling does eXecute Out of Line (XOL) on the stack, which prevents a non-executable stack. Use the instruction emulator instead. Tested by booting 32-bit Debian on OCTEON. More than 1700 instructions emulated to login to command line. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c b/arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c index 9dfcd7f..0611697 100644 --- a/arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c +++ b/arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c @@ -699,11 +699,12 @@ do { \ * Emulate the single floating point instruction pointed at by EPC. * Two instructions if the instruction is in a branch delay slot. */ - +int mips_insn_emul(struct pt_regs *regs, mips_instruction ir, void *__user *fault_addr); static int cop1Emulate(struct pt_regs *xcp, struct mips_fpu_struct *ctx, struct mm_decoded_insn dec_insn, void *__user *fault_addr) { unsigned long contpc = xcp->cp0_epc + dec_insn.pc_inc; + unsigned long origpc = xcp->cp0_epc; unsigned int cond, cbit; mips_instruction ir; int likely, pc_inc; @@ -1043,7 +1044,15 @@ emul: * Single step the non-cp1 * instruction in the dslot */ - return mips_dsemul(xcp, ir, contpc); + sig = mips_insn_emul(xcp, ir, fault_addr); + if (sig == 0) { + xcp->cp0_epc = contpc; + MIPS_FPU_EMU_INC_STATS(insn_emul); + } else { + xcp->cp0_epc = origpc; + pr_err("mips_insn_emul: %08x ->%d\n", (unsigned)ir, sig); + } + return sig; } else if (likely) { /* branch not taken */ /* * branch likely nullifies -- 1.7.11.7