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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] MIPS: Allow FPU emulator to use non-stack area.
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:05:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141007000514.GD23797@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54332A64.5020605@caviumnetworks.com>

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:48:52PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 04:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >On 10/06/2014 02:58 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> >>On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:45:29PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> [...]
> >>This is a huge ill-designed mess.
> >
> >Amen.
> >
> >Can the kernel not just emulate the instructions directly?
> 
> In theory it could, but since there can be implementation defined
> instructions, there is no way to achieve full instruction set
> coverage for all possible machines.

Is the issue really implementation-defined instructions with delay
slots? If so it sounds like a made-up issue. They're not going to
occur in real binaries. Certainly a compiler is not going to generate
implementation-defined instructions, and if you're writing the asm by
hand, you just don't put floating point instructions in the delay
slot.

Rich

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-07  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-06 20:23 [PATCH resend] MIPS: Allow FPU emulator to use non-stack area David Daney
2014-10-06 20:54 ` Rich Felker
2014-10-06 21:18   ` David Daney
2014-10-06 21:18     ` David Daney
2014-10-06 21:31     ` Rich Felker
2014-10-06 21:45       ` David Daney
2014-10-06 21:45         ` David Daney
2014-10-06 21:58         ` Rich Felker
2014-10-06 22:17           ` David Daney
2014-10-06 22:17             ` David Daney
2014-10-06 23:08             ` Rich Felker
2014-10-06 23:38           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-06 23:48             ` David Daney
2014-10-06 23:48               ` David Daney
2014-10-06 23:54               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07  0:05               ` Rich Felker [this message]
2014-10-07  0:11                 ` Andrew Pinski
2014-10-07  0:21                   ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07  0:28                     ` Andrew Pinski
2014-10-07  0:29                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07  0:32                         ` David Daney
2014-10-07  0:33                 ` David Daney
2014-10-07  0:33                   ` David Daney
2014-10-07  0:48                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07  0:49                   ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07  4:50                     ` David Daney
2014-10-07  9:13                       ` Matthew Fortune
2014-10-07  9:13                         ` Matthew Fortune
2014-10-07 10:52                         ` James Hogan
2014-10-07 11:19                         ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07 16:04                         ` David Daney
2014-10-07 18:32                         ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-07 18:43                           ` David Daney
2014-10-07 19:13                             ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-07 18:44                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07 18:50                             ` David Daney
2014-10-07 19:09                             ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07 19:16                               ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-07 19:21                                 ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07 19:27                                   ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-07 19:28                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07 20:03                                     ` David Daney
2014-10-08  0:22                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07 19:40                             ` Matthew Fortune
2014-10-07 11:11                       ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07 16:08                         ` David Daney
2014-10-07 16:08                           ` David Daney
2014-10-07 18:16                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07 23:20     ` Ralf Baechle
2014-10-07 23:59       ` David Daney
2014-10-07 23:59         ` David Daney
2014-10-08  0:18         ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-08  0:18           ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-08  2:37           ` Rich Felker
2014-10-08 10:31         ` Paul Burton
2014-10-08 10:31           ` Paul Burton
2014-10-07  1:02 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2014-10-07  1:38   ` Rich Felker
2014-10-07  4:32   ` David Daney
2014-10-07 11:53     ` James Hogan
2014-10-07 11:53       ` James Hogan
2014-10-07 12:22       ` James Hogan
2014-10-07 12:22         ` James Hogan

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