[PATCH] [POWERPC] convert transfer_to_handler into a macro

[Kumar Gala]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:52 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Apr 29, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>> Kumar Gala writes:
>>>
>>>> We need to have unique transfer_to_handler paths for each exception
>>>> level
>>>> that is supported.  We need to use the proper xSRR0/1 depending on
>>>> which
>>>> exception level the interrupt was from.  The macro conversion  
>>>> lets up
>>>> templatize this code path.
>>>
>>> It seems to me that this implies you are assuming that you will  
>>> never
>>> ever get a synchronous normal interrupt such as a TLB miss while you
>>> are in a critical or machine check handler.
>>
>> Grr.. one more thing to fix :)
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Also consider saving/restoring MAS

got that.  Does 40x/44x have anything similar we need to save/restore?