Re: [Xenomai] Unrecoverable FP Unavailable Exception 801

[Steven Seeger <steven.seeger@nasa.gov>]

On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:49:53 PM EDT Philippe Gerum wrote:
> The fix makes a lot of sense, thanks. This bug slipped under the radar
> for years likely because enabling the ppc fpu in kernel context mainly
> happens when fixing up alignment issues, which rt apps tend to avoid in
> the first place for performance reason by only using aligned memory
> accesses (synchronous exceptions are not that cheap latency-wise).
> 
> Regarding the ipipe-4.9.y series, there are several other spots touching
> the msr in this file which may be affected the same way (vsx, altivec,
> spe, anything that involves calling msr_check_and_set/clear_msr() under
> hard masking basically).
> 
> Adding a dedicated irq_restore helper which does not touch any other bit
> aside of MSR_EE would make sense there. The BOOK-E version of
> irq_save/restore specifically uses the wrtee* instructions not to touch
> those bits, so we may assume this would be semantically correct to do
> the same for BOOK3-S.
> 
> PS: CCing Steven who took over the maintenance of the ppc pipeline from
> kernel 4.14 and on.

Hi guys. Thanks for pointing this out, Jouko. I've looked over this briefly 
and agree this is a pretty wide-spread problem. I will take a stab at it 
tomorrow.

Regards,
Steven