From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] FP improvements
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:57:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131107135732.GA13331@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383828513-28462-1-git-send-email-paul.burton@imgtec.com>
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:48:27PM +0000, Paul Burton wrote:
> This series includes a few improvements to floating point support. The
> first 2 patches add support for missing instructions to the FPU
> emulator. The 3rd is a small cleanup. The 4th introduces support for
> O32 binaries using 64-bit floating point. The 5th modifies the FPU
> emulator to stop executing code from the user stack. The 6th & final
> patch is not strictly FP-related but is a consequence of the 5th patch,
> and allows us to mark the stack & allocated heap memory as
> non-executable by default.
Very interesting, in particular #5. More once I've me and others had a
chance to review the series.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-07 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 12:48 [PATCH 0/6] FP improvements Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] mips: mfhc1 & mthc1 support for the FPU emulator Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] mips: microMIPS: " Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] mips: remove unused {en,dis}able_fpu macros Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] mips: support for 64-bit FP with O32 binaries Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-15 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 " Paul Burton
2013-11-15 12:35 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v3 " Paul Burton
2013-11-22 13:12 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] mips: use per-mm page to execute FP branch delay slots Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 18:00 ` David Daney
2013-11-08 12:07 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-08 12:07 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-08 14:50 ` [PATCH v2 " Paul Burton
2013-11-08 14:50 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-21 16:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-21 16:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] mips: non-exec stack & heap when non-exec PT_GNU_STACK is present Paul Burton
2013-11-07 12:48 ` Paul Burton
2013-11-07 13:57 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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