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From: Justin Carlson <justin@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Justin Carlson <justin@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: reenabling interrupts on return from function
Date: 15 Jun 2002 15:22:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024179748.1549.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024177741.1549.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 14:49, Justin Carlson wrote:
> I'm obviously missing something basic here.
> 
> Looking at stackframe.h, I see this code as a part of RESTORE_SOME
> 
> 
> 		mfc0	t0, CP0_STATUS;                  \
> 		.set	pop;                             \
> 		ori	t0, 0x1f;                        \
> 		xori	t0, 0x1f;                        \
> 		mtc0	t0, CP0_STATUS;                  
> 

OK, this was a stupid question; the answer was staring me in the face
(the restoration of the status register from the stack), and I didn't
see it.

However, I still don't see the point of the above code.  Why do we
explicitly clear bits 4-0 of the status register just before reloading
it from the system stack?  

-Justin

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-15 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-15 21:49 reenabling interrupts on return from function Justin Carlson
2002-06-15 22:22 ` Justin Carlson [this message]
2002-06-19 15:16   ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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