Re: Altivec on 2.4.xx?

Dan Malek wrote:

Right now, I am just removing this as part of the exception handler,
so this function never finds this bit set for instruction faults.
Anyone else?

Well, I don't use Altivec, but the exception handlers's behaviour
wrt to do_page_fault makes me feel uncomfortable too. It would be
nice to have something like do_page_fault(regs, addr, code, srr1)
instead of do_page_fault(regs, addr, code) without knowing if code
comes from DSISR or SRR1. And simply pass code=0 if DSISR is not
valid for a given exception.

If my understanding of Motorola's docs is correct, the only MPC8xx
exception that has a valid DSISR setting is the implementation
specific data TLB error interrupt (apart of course from Machine
Check and Alignment, but those do not call do_page_fault).

As both TLB miss and TLB error handlers can jump to DataAccess,
there is a risk that we call do_page_fault with a previous value
of DSISR from there. So the TLB handlers should pass the code
parameter to DataAccess, too.


				Daniel Marmier

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