[RFC 1/2] powerpc/32: Unset MSR RI in exception epilogs

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Dec 14 06:15:14 AEDT 2016


On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 07:19:41PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> At exception prologs, once SRR0 and SRR1 have been saved, MSR RI is
> set to mark the interrupt as recoverable.
> 
> MSR RI has to be unset before writing into SRR0 and SRR1 at exception
> epilogs.

Why?  What goes wrong without this?  Etc.


Segher


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