[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/power8: Update denorm exeception

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Thu May 30 17:33:19 EST 2013


POWER8 can take a denormalisation exception on any VSX registers.

This does the extra 32 VSX registers we don't currently handle.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index 3c9296b..e783453 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -480,6 +480,16 @@ FTR_SECTION_ELSE
 	XVCPSGNDP32(0)
 
 ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
+
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+	b	denorm_done
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
+/*
+ * To denormalise we need to move a copy of the register to itself.
+ * For POWER8 we need to do that for all 64 VSX registers
+ */
+	XVCPSGNDP32(32)
+denorm_done:
 	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR0,r11
 	mtcrf	0x80,r9
 	ld	r9,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R9(r13)
-- 
1.7.10.4



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