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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: questions on struct sigcontext
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:04:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071212190455.GB26190@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071212190032.GA30506@caradoc.them.org>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 02:00:32PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> There used to be slots for badvaddr and cause.  You'll have to ask
> Ralf why he decided to clobber them for DSP state, I don't remember
> :-)  I suspect they may never have held useful information for you;
> we don't context switch them for userspace, so an intervening fault
> in kernel space or in another thread could change them.

Correct, we never filled badvaddr and cause, so it was easy to recycle
those fields.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-12 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12 17:44 questions on struct sigcontext Chris Friesen
2007-12-12 18:12 ` David Daney
2007-12-12 18:34   ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-12 18:44     ` David Daney
2007-12-12 18:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-12-12 19:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-12-12 19:04   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-12-12 23:47   ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-13  0:06     ` David Daney
2007-12-13 15:36     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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