Hi Paul, On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:29:11AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote: > > This results in userland FP breakage as CP0_Status.FR is read-only 1 > > since r6 (when an FPU is present) but CP0_Config5.FRE won't be set to > > emulate FR=0. > > Perhaps it would be worth clarifying that what it breaks is FPU emulation or > pre-r6 FP code running atop MIPS32r6 kernels. Since FR=1 context switching > should work fine for r6 user code, and it would only be impacted if it > requires emulation for some reason (which is probably why we haven't hit this > earlier in our CI testing). Thanks Paul, it does indeed invoke the FPU emulator as it fails to set FR=0. I'll update that paragraph to say this: > This results in userland FP breakage as CP0_Status.FR is read-only 1 > since r6 (when an FPU is present) so __enable_fpu() will fail to clear > FR. This causes the FPU emulator to get used which will incorrectly > emulate 32-bit FPU registers. > Besides possibly clarifying the commit message above this looks good to me so: > > Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks James
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