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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale•com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] align.c
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:49:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6505FDD3-DC31-11D8-A541-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F8138F.8090004@pi.be>


Paul,

Can you explain to me why/when stswi/lswi would get alignment
exceptions.  I think I'm missing something :)  The reason I ask is we
are working on some emulation handlers but are not doing anything with
regards to alignment for e500.

- kumar

On Jul 16, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Stef Simoens wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Do you really see string ops and alignment exceptions?  I was under
>> the impression they did byte accesses.
>
> Yes, but i've only seen alignment exceptions with stswi/lswi
> instructions though.
>
> (On the MPC601, stswi/lswi has better timings than a series of
> stw/lwz; that's why I'm probably the only one seeing them...)
>
> While I was at it, Paulus asked me to handle stmw/lmw and stswx/lswx
> as well...
>
> Stef
>
>> On Jul 14, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Stef Simoens wrote:
>>> This is an (updated) diff to arch/ppc/kernel/align.c of the 2.6.8-rc1
>>> kernel.
>>> The patch adds support for the handling of alignment exceptions of
>>> multiple (lmw/stmw) and string (lswi/lswx/stswi/stswx) instructions.
>>> Stef
>>>
>>> diff -ur linux-2.6.8-rc1/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c
>>> linux-2.6.8-rc1-mq/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c
>>> --- linux-2.6.8-rc1/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c    2004-07-12
>>> 17:46:42.525695737 +0200
>>> +++ linux-2.6.8-rc1-mq/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c    2004-07-12
>>> 20:25:24.390989048 +0200
> (snip)


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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-14 18:36 [PATCH] align.c Stef Simoens
2004-07-15 14:15 ` Kumar Gala
2004-07-16 17:42   ` Stef Simoens
2004-07-22 22:49     ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2004-07-23 13:10       ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-08-03  8:00     ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-08-04 11:36       ` Segher Boessenkool

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