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Subject[PATCH] ppc32: Simplified load string emulation error checking
The error checking for emulation of load string instructions was overly
generous and would cause certain valid forms of the instructions to be
treated as illegal. We drop the range checking since the architecture
allows this to be boundedly undefined. Tests on CPUs that support these
instructions appear not do cause illegal instruction traps on range
errors and just allow the execution to occur.

Thanks to Kim Phillips for debugging this and figuring out what real HW
was doing.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>

---
commit 219d058f65dbd666964b1e951b8d491e4b19dc0c
tree 109a4648d2cc627d17c129bc1ca102a736c817aa
parent 4b1b1ed3400c905819fc4668838dbec4099f2d8d
author Kumar K. Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Thu, 26 May 2005 18:55:56 -0500
committer Kumar K. Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Thu, 26 May 2005 18:55:56 -0500

ppc/kernel/traps.c | 7 +------
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c
===================================================================
--- 94fc6c9507563e89a75b0838824003b2301b4321/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c (mode:100644)
+++ 109a4648d2cc627d17c129bc1ca102a736c817aa/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c (mode:100644)
@@ -408,12 +408,7 @@

/* Early out if we are an invalid form of lswx */
if ((instword & INST_STRING_MASK) == INST_LSWX)
- if ((rA >= rT) || (NB_RB >= rT) || (rT == rA) || (rT == NB_RB))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- /* Early out if we are an invalid form of lswi */
- if ((instword & INST_STRING_MASK) == INST_LSWI)
- if ((rA >= rT) || (rT == rA))
+ if ((rT == rA) || (rT == NB_RB))
return -EINVAL;

EA = (rA == 0) ? 0 : regs->gpr[rA];
-
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