From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Kip Walker <kwalker@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: do_ri and EPC adjustment
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:51:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021005145142.A31477@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D9E10DF.C4C305B2@broadcom.com>; from kwalker@broadcom.com on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0700
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0700, Kip Walker wrote:
> Sorry if this has already been discussed, but why does do_ri() adjust
> the EPC in compute_return_epc() before delivering the SIGILL to a user
> process?
The original reason was to avoid having knowledge weather to skip over an
instruction or not from the signal return path. For various reasons this
seems a wrong decission.
Ralf
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2002-10-04 22:06 do_ri and EPC adjustment Kip Walker
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