Subject: Re: [v5][PATCH 2/6] powerpc/book3e: store critical/machine/debug exception thread info

From: "“tiejun.chen”" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:27:06 +0800

On 10/19/2013 06:43 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> We need to store thread info to these exception thread info like something
>> we already did for PPC32.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   15 +++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> index 4d8e57f..07cf657 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> @@ -67,6 +67,18 @@
>>   	std	r10,PACA_##level##_STACK(r13);
>>   #endif
>>
>> +/* Store something to exception thread info */
>> +#define	BOOK3E_STORE_EXC_LEVEL_THEAD_INFO(type)					\
>> +	ld	r14,PACAKSAVE(r13);						\
>> +	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r14, r14);						\
>> +	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r15, r1);						\
>> +	ld	r10,TI_FLAGS(r14);		     				\
>> +	std	r10,TI_FLAGS(r15);			     			\
>> +	ld	r10,TI_PREEMPT(r14);		     				\
>> +	std	r10,TI_PREEMPT(r15);		     				\
>> +	ld	r10,TI_TASK(r14);			     			\
>> +	std	r10,TI_TASK(r15);
>
> Where is "type" used?
>

Yes, its noting now but its worth leaving this to extend something in the future.

> BTW, no need for a BOOK3E prefix for things local to this file.
>

What about "EXC_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG"? Please see next version.

Thanks,

Tiejun