[PATCH] ppc32: Fix alignment exception checking on load/store multiple instructions
Dan Malek
dan at embeddededge.com
Wed Apr 13 00:46:29 EST 2005
On Apr 12, 2005, at 2:03 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> The handling of misaligned load/store multiplies did not check to see
> if
> the address were ok to access before __{get,put}_user().
I think we should also take the opportunity to fix up the lawrx
case and look for other reserved/conditional instructions
that may slip through. Since these are atomic operations, we
can't emulate them. According to the PEM, an alignment fault
on these is a fatal programming error.
Thanks.
-- Dan
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