[PATCH v3 07/14] powerpc/traps: Check for prefixed instructions in facility_unavailable_exception()
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 12:57:00 AEDT 2020
Jordan Niethe's on February 27, 2020 9:52 am:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:53 PM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jordan Niethe's on February 26, 2020 2:07 pm:
>> > If prefixed instructions are made unavailable by the [H]FSCR, attempting
>> > to use them will cause a facility unavailable exception. Add "PREFIX" to
>> > the facility_strings[].
>> >
>> > Currently there are no prefixed instructions that are actually emulated
>> > by emulate_instruction() within facility_unavailable_exception().
>> > However, when caused by a prefixed instructions the SRR1 PREFIXED bit is
>> > set. Prepare for dealing with emulated prefixed instructions by checking
>> > for this bit.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5 at gmail.com>
>>
>> Oh you've got it here, I would just squash this together with the first
>> patch.
> Sure, I'll put them together. When you mentioned a couple more things
> to do in traps.c, was it just this? Or is there still more to be done
> adding an FSCR?
Hmm... maybe it's just that one.
Thanks,
Nick
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