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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>,
	linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com,
	Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk>
Subject: Re: load_unaligned() and "uld" instruction
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 21:32:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39DD55E9.AFCACB0E@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 00d101c02f04$3a6d7340$0deca8c0@Ulysses

"Kevin D. Kissell" wrote:
> 
> > > > Ralf, before the perfect solution is found, the following patch makes
> > > > the gcc complain go away.  It just use ".set mips3" pragma.
> 
> Which, as Ralf correctly observes, will generate code that will
> crash on 32-bit CPUs, 

Why will it crash 32-bit CPUs?  On my R5432 CPU, the lwl/lwr sequence
executes just fine.

Or do you mean it will crash SOME 32-bit CPUs?  Do those 32-bit CPUs
support lwl or lwr?  If they don't, they should generate a reserved
instruction exception.  If they do, I don't see any problem. 

> > With the second half, are you saying the "cut-off-upper-32-bit" bug
> > actually hides the register corruption problem?  If so, maybe we need
> > the "cut-off-upper_32-bit" bug for the 32-bit MIPS tree.
> 
> This is a joke, right?
> 

Not entirely.  I was thinking if the unaligned load/store instruction
corrupts the upper 32 bit content on SOME cpus, maybe we do need to cut
the upper 32bit as a workaround.  Well, I hope it is not necessary.

Jun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-05 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-25 18:48 load_unaligned() and "uld" instruction Jun Sun
2000-09-25 21:16 ` Dominic Sweetman
2000-09-25 21:36   ` Jun Sun
2000-09-25 23:29     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-09-26  6:22     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-09-26  6:22       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-09-26  9:08       ` Dominic Sweetman
2000-09-26  9:08         ` Dominic Sweetman
2000-09-29 17:22         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-09 14:49           ` Dominic Sweetman
2000-09-26 18:04       ` Jun Sun
2000-09-27 10:06         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-10-06  0:43           ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-06  9:54             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-10-06 16:21               ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-05 12:13         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-06  1:11           ` Jun Sun
2000-10-05 19:41             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-05 19:41               ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-06  4:32               ` Jun Sun [this message]
2000-10-05 22:10                 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-05 22:10                   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-06  5:53                   ` Jun Sun
2000-10-05 23:14                     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-05 23:14                       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-06 16:32                     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-07  1:35                     ` Jun Sun
2000-10-06 22:26                       ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-06 16:28                 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-07  1:24                   ` Jun Sun
2000-10-06 20:46                     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-06 20:46                       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-07  7:16                       ` Jun Sun

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