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@ 2014-12-03 23:44 David Daney
  2014-12-03 23:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Add FPU emulator counter for non-FPU instructions emulated David Daney
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From: David Daney @ 2014-12-03 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips, ralf
  Cc: Leonid Yegoshin, Zubair.Kakakhel, geert+renesas, peterz,
	paul.gortmaker, macro, chenhc, cl, mingo, richard, zajec5,
	james.hogan, keescook, tj, alex, pbonzini, blogic, paul.burton,
	qais.yousef, linux-kernel, markos.chandras, dengcheng.zhu,
	manuel.lauss, lars.persson, David Daney

From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

Currently the MIPS FPU emulator uses eXecute Out of Line (XOL) on the
stack to handle instructions in the delay slots of FPU branches.
Because of this MIPS cannot have a non-executable stack.

A previous patch set from Leonid Yegoshin attempts to address the
problem by moving the XOL location to a thread private mapping of a
dedicated page.

I present here an alternative: Add an instruction set emulator and use
it to execute the FPU delay slot instructions.  The benefit of this
approach is that we don't have to allocate a page per user-space
thread for XOL, and we keep the TLB handling code slightly simpler as
a result.

Currently this is a proof of concept, as it doesn't yet handle MIPS64
nor microMIPS instructions.  But it is sufficient to run the entire
Debian distribution on a FPU-less CPU.

Comments welcome.

David Daney (3):
  MIPS: Add FPU emulator counter for non-FPU instructions emulated.
  MIPS: Add full ISA emulator.
  MIPS: Use full instruction emulation for FPU emulator delay slot
    emulation.

 arch/mips/include/asm/fpu_emulator.h |   1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/Makefile            |   3 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/insn-emul.c         | 815 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c          |  13 +-
 arch/mips/math-emu/me-debugfs.c      |   1 +
 5 files changed, 830 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/insn-emul.c

-- 
1.7.11.7


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2014-12-03 23:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: Add full ISA emulator David Daney
2014-12-03 23:55   ` Leonid Yegoshin
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2014-12-04  2:21             ` David Daney
2014-12-04 10:16               ` Paul Burton
2014-12-04 10:45                 ` Qais Yousef
2014-12-04 11:49       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-12-04 17:40         ` David Daney
2014-12-04 20:32           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-12-03 23:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: Use full instruction emulation for FPU emulator delay slot emulation David Daney

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