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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: sathesh babu <sathesh_edara2003@yahoo.co.in>,
	Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: unaligned access
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:06:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223030645.GA1349@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01fc01c75693$195858b0$10eca8c0@grendel>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:06:57PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Default behavior in MIPS is to silently fix up and emulate.  A MIPS-specific
> system call (sys_sysmips with the command argument of MIPS_FIXADE
> and a parameter agument of zero) allows for this to be overridden, so that 
> such accesses will be fatal.  It looks as if there was once support to log the events 
> to syslog, independently of whether or not they were fixed up, but it doesn't look to me 
> as if that still works in 2.6.x kernels.

There used to be a configuration option to allow logging which was a
leftover from the times when I implemented the unaligned emulation.  I
did never find it useful later on, so I removed that in almost 9 years
ago and nobody missed it since :-)

But I don't mind putting it back, controllable by sysctl if there is any
demand for it.

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-22  7:10 unaligned access sathesh babu
2007-02-22  7:53 ` Rajat Jain
2007-02-22  9:18   ` sathesh babu
2007-02-22 15:06     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2007-02-22 15:06       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2007-02-23  3:06       ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-02-23  3:36         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-02-23  8:18           ` Kevin D. Kissell
2007-02-23  8:18             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2007-02-23 15:12             ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-02-23 16:18             ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-23 16:29               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-02-23  9:48         ` sathesh babu

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