[PATCH RFC 0/7] powerpc: Beef up single-stepping/instruction emulation infrastructure

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Wed Aug 23 09:47:56 AEST 2017


This patch series extends the code in arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c so that
it handles almost all load and store instructions -- all except the
atomic memory operations (lwat, stwat, etc.).  It also makes sure that
we use the largest possible aligned accesses to access memory and that
we don't access the CPU FP/VMX/VSX registers when they don't contain
user data.

With this, it should be possible to replace the body of the alignment
interrupt handler with a call to emulate_step() or something quite
similar.

Paul.

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/sstep.h |   73 +-
 arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile        |    2 +-
 arch/powerpc/lib/ldstfp.S        |  305 ++-----
 arch/powerpc/lib/quad.S          |   62 ++
 arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c         | 1773 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 5 files changed, 1564 insertions(+), 651 deletions(-)



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