Linux MIPS Architecture development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
Cc: "Jürgen Urban" <JuergenUrban@gmx.de>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] MIPS: R5900: Workaround exception NOP execution bug (FLX05)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:04:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222170426.GA2310@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1802201335420.3553@tp.orcam.me.uk>

Hi Maciej,

>  The likely cause is my development GDB builds use `--enable-targets=all' 
> and your GDB configuration probably does not include secondary targets.  
> Still I find it wrong that an incorrect BFD target is chosen, and then 
> that an override does not work either (and especially that accessing 
> memory in a core file seems completely broken in recent GDB versions).

Please let me know if anything more is needed to reproduce the problem.

>  Hmm, I have mixed feelings about it as RDHWR is not an R5900 instruction.  
> Likewise we don't disassemble it, and neither we do LL, SC, SYNC, etc. say 
> with `mips:3000' even though Linux will emulate them.  I feel this kind of 
> stuff does not belong to instruction aliases either (compare `objdump' 
> disassembly of any serious program with and without `-M no-aliases').
> 
>  I do recognize value for users here though, so perhaps an extra `-M' 
> option would be due here, such as `-M linux-emulation' or suchlike, to 
> cover all emulated instructions.  I'll think about it.  Please file an 
> enhancement request in sourceware.org Bugzilla if it's something you are 
> keen having (feel free to cc me; I'm <macro@linux-mips.org> there).

Sure, I think it would be a helpful feature:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22877

Fredrik

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-27 13:23 [PATCH] MIPS: Add basic R5900 support Fredrik Noring
2017-08-28 13:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2017-08-28 17:11   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-29 17:33   ` Fredrik Noring
2017-08-29 17:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-29 17:24   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-30 13:23   ` Fredrik Noring
2017-08-31 15:11     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-31 15:11       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-02 10:28   ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-09 10:13     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-09 10:13       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11  5:21       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11  5:21         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-12 17:59         ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-15 11:12           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-15 11:12             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-15 13:19             ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-15 18:28               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-15 18:28                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-02 14:10   ` [PATCH v2] " Fredrik Noring
2017-09-11  5:18     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11  5:18       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11 15:17       ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-14 13:50         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-14 13:50           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-16 13:34           ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-18 17:05             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-18 17:05               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-18 19:24               ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-19 12:44                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-19 12:44                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-20 14:54                   ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-26 11:50                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-26 11:50                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-27 17:21                       ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-28 12:13                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-28 12:13                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-30  6:56                           ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-02  9:05                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-02  9:05                               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-02 16:33                               ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-29 17:20                               ` Fredrik Noring
2017-11-10 23:34                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-10 23:34                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-11 16:04                                   ` Fredrik Noring
2018-01-29 20:27                                     ` Fredrik Noring
2018-01-31 23:01                                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-11  7:29                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround for the short loop bug Fredrik Noring
2018-02-12  9:25                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-12 15:22                                             ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11  7:46                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Use SYNC.L for data cache and SYNC.P for instruction cache Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11  7:56                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround exception NOP execution bug (FLX05) Fredrik Noring
2018-02-12  9:28                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-15 19:15                                             ` [RFC v2] " Fredrik Noring
2018-02-15 20:49                                               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 11:16                                                 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 11:57                                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 13:38                                                     ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 15:03                                                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 20:04                                                         ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-20 14:09                                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-22 17:04                                                             ` Fredrik Noring [this message]
2018-02-18  8:47                                                 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-20 14:41                                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-22 17:27                                                     ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11  8:01                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround for CACHE instruction near branch delay slot Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 11:16                                           ` Aw: " "Jürgen Urban"
2018-02-11  8:09                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: The ERET instruction has issues with delay slot and CACHE Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 11:07                                           ` Aw: " "Jürgen Urban"
2018-02-11  8:29                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Use mandatory SYNC.L in exception handlers Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 10:33                                           ` Aw: " "Jürgen Urban"
2018-02-12  9:22                                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-12  9:22                                               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-18 10:30                                               ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 14:43                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround for saving and restoring FPU registers Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 15:18                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 17:47                                             ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 19:33                                               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-18  9:26                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround where MSB must be 0 for the instruction cache Fredrik Noring
2018-02-18 11:08                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Add mandatory SYNC.P to all M[FT]C0 instructions Fredrik Noring
2018-03-03 12:26                                         ` [RFC] MIPS: PS2: Interrupt request (IRQ) support Fredrik Noring
2018-03-03 13:09                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-03-03 14:14                                             ` Fredrik Noring
2018-04-09 15:51                                             ` Fredrik Noring
2018-03-18 10:45                                           ` Fredrik Noring
2018-03-19 19:15                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-06-18 18:52                                             ` [RFC v2] " Fredrik Noring
2017-10-30 17:55                               ` [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add basic R5900 support Fredrik Noring
2017-11-24 10:26                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-24 10:26                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-24 10:39                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-24 10:39                                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-20 14:07               ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-21 21:07                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-21 21:07                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-22 16:37                   ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-22 16:37                     ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-29 23:55                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-29 23:55                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-30 18:26                       ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-02  9:11                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-02  9:11                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-03 19:49                           ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-05 19:04                             ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-06 20:28                           ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-15 16:39                             ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-17 12:23                               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-17 12:23                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-21 18:00                                 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-23 16:10                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-23 16:10                                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-21 18:11               ` Paul Burton
2017-09-21 18:11                 ` Paul Burton
2017-09-21 19:48                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-21 19:48                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-29 18:42       ` Fredrik Noring

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20180222170426.GA2310@localhost.localdomain \
    --to=noring@nocrew.org \
    --cc=JuergenUrban@gmx.de \
    --cc=linux-mips@linux-mips.org \
    --cc=macro@mips.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox