From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3233D345CBF; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786034198; cv=none; b=X2GbjWgWIIkA1+/eIAMjmejyNXrq2oEQaAobsdwJR4vhMYAciHTGS+OfH60Ue6dGkdKk6Wzww51Pmh72aBDbCivJR3uLixEAi9owRsVXa/ePDfxRoFohGauhrPNEeVo1cNF+AXMYaXRlYodTauR3R+kON6kdssD+K0HJv6WF28s= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786034198; c=relaxed/simple; bh=sRdRPD8g3aRqE7KOzs3ztuYv8xFcGuz+Rx+4mNl0k5c=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=dselPfa6WX1nY9L7BZY90Xm+DDuuCSkEu1tGDKD1LAGbz/CjcakoJhqpTRczeJN5fkjcDB43YStffXRKFS0fdBY/IxzV4igJTzpI571N0Zr7c6utIInctb+QiY/ywb+sNyLofEvleKeISiZHOf72CDLmAZzjlfsBjf1Np1nPgOM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=W2tNMIwE; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="W2tNMIwE" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 276711F000E9; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:36:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1786034196; bh=dYgTROmA3S9YYxoIX0RnvvNWtlrrmgkIbAsRfNBVPWk=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=W2tNMIwEAfNCTwDDnhL0AFQucPE5sv85OfGCC5ymuYtjo8GULNbbUz0sRypf8w/Hb 2wUIU99yWex7ZwO/wqqjm1+lQxJtFRF9cn/XlibJHtYd7gQqvN61fC9TBx8cFl8Ejy Nb+/TZJ6cpRATbqWrcXFyTG171V8vI1eb6kTf90x3qJ73U68vo7ffd+ip0vQW/U83+ 2Jj+qC6v4Y3zYwtkBToz2v49qwTjn92dDszm0ferAxlrCm1IpXR0ONxCXUJjoEKeNx P6VXwozmDt/s27fPNPoEgrGIAZ+8pR7V+eQjbm+SxK+DYsuaKWjaQF6jZxOO+L38qU KMaDmaySwmZag== Message-ID: <956a07d1-8f70-4376-9505-623db0223479@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 09:36:32 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/17] riscv: Maintain epc on misaligned emulation error To: Nam Cao , Charlie Jenkins , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Alexandre Ghiti , Anup Patel , Atish Patra , Conor Dooley , Paolo Bonzini , Andrew Morton , Shuah Khan , =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Jesse Taube Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Damien Le Moal References: <20260707-riscv_insn_table-v3-0-3f8e5f75ba97@gmail.com> <20260707-riscv_insn_table-v3-7-3f8e5f75ba97@gmail.com> <87cxvvd4o4.fsf@yellow.woof> From: Damien Le Moal Content-Language: en-US Organization: Western Digital Research In-Reply-To: <87cxvvd4o4.fsf@yellow.woof> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2026/08/06 1:38, Nam Cao wrote: > Charlie Jenkins writes: >> Currently the epc is set to zero when there is a misaligned emulation >> error. This will print a misleading error message with the current epc >> value of zero instead of the epc value that triggered the emulation. >> Avoid setting epc to zero to maintain the state of epc. >> >> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins > > I see no reason why epc must be set to zero, so: > Reviewed-by: Nam Cao > > But to be sure, I add to CC: Damien Le Moal > > Damien, any reason that epc must be cleared? It has been a while since I touched this, and frankly, I do not remember at all. As the original commit 956d705dd279f says: Code heavily inspired from the OpenSBI project. So I may have copied this without thinking too much. That's likely Anup's code, so maybe Anup can weight in here. -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research