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From: Chris Smart <chris@distroguy•com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Send SIGBUS on unaligned copy and paste
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:50:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160614015056.GA29205@distroguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edaf7a67-10c9-1e18-e416-38f45e4a5192@c-s.fr>

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>Le 09/06/2016 à 08:01, Chris Smart a écrit :
>>Calling ISA 3.0 instructions copy, copy_first, paste and paste_last
>>generates an alignment fault when copying or pasting unaligned
>>data (128 byte). We catch this and send SIGBUS to the userspace
>>process that caused it.
>>

[snip]

>>+    if ((instruction & 0xfc0006fe) == 0x7c00060c){
>
>Can you define corresponding instruction and mask in 
>arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
>and use symbolic names here instead of raw values ?
>

Yep, thanks. Will look at doing this for V2.

Cheers,
-c

      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-14  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09  6:01 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Send SIGBUS on unaligned copy and paste Chris Smart
2016-06-09  6:57 ` Christophe Leroy
2016-06-14  1:50   ` Chris Smart [this message]

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