[PATCH 08/60] microblaze_v4: exception handling

Ray Lee ray-lk at madrabbit.org
Fri Jun 27 05:43:20 EST 2008


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Michal Simek <monstr at seznam.cz> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:29 AM,  <monstr at seznam.cz> wrote:
>>> +ex_sw:
>>> +       /* Get the destination register number into r5 */
>>> +       lbui    r5, r0, ex_reg_op;
>>> +       /* Form store_word jump table offset (sw_table + (8 * regnum)) */
>>> +       la      r6, r0, sw_table;
>>> +       add     r5, r5, r5;
>>> +       add     r5, r5, r5;
>>> +       add     r5, r5, r5;
>>> +       add     r5, r5, r6;
>>> +       bra     r5;
>>
>> Possibly stupid question: This is part of the unaligned store word
>> exception handler, yes? Shouldn't the above add's be addk's to
>> preserve the state of the carry register pre/post store?
>
> I don't think that addk is important. I have some tests for exception, I want to
> cover full exception handling.

Okay. It doesn't match your other exception handlers, though, which is
why I noticed it in the first place (they use addk).



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