[PATCH] [POWERPC] convert transfer_to_handler into a macro
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Wed Apr 30 13:24:54 EST 2008
Kumar Gala writes:
> > Wouldn't it be better and safer to have the exception prolog for
> > critical interrupts save SRR0/1 in the stack frame, and have the
> > prolog for machine checks save SRR0/1 and CSRR0/1 likewise?
>
> If we do this I guess we can use SRR0/1 regardless of which level we
> came from.
That's the idea. I actually thought the booke exception prologs
already did that, but it seems I'm wrong.
What sort of things do you expect critical and machine-check handlers
to be needing to do?
Paul.
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