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SubjectRe: [PATCH resend] MIPS: Allow FPU emulator to use non-stack area.
Well, I am not a subscriber to mail-list, so I read it the first time 
and some notes:

1) David's approach would likely work for FPU emulation but unlikely
works for MIPS Rel 2/Rel 1/ MIPS I emulation in MIPS R6 architecture.
The reason is that the first MIPS R2 instruction (removed from MIPS R6)
can be hit long before GLIBC/bionic/etc can determine how to use
properly a new system call. And that instruction needs to be emulated. I
actually hit this problem with ssh-keygen first and referred to FPU
emulation because I got it later, during my attempt to salvage a situation.

2) The issue of uMIPS ADDIUPC and similar instructions are overblown in
my opinion. Never of them are memory-related and their emulation in
BD-slot can be easily done in kernel and that actually accelerates an
emulation. Look at piece of code which I wrote to accelerate an
emulation of some instructions in BD-slot of JR instruction:

switch (MIPSInst_OPCODE(ir)) {
case addiu_op:
if (MIPSInst_RT(ir))
regs->regs[MIPSInst_RT(ir)] =
(s32)regs->regs[MIPSInst_RS(ir)] +
(s32)MIPSInst_SIMM(ir);
return(0);
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
case daddiu_op:
if (MIPSInst_RT(ir))
regs->regs[MIPSInst_RT(ir)] =
(s64)regs->regs[MIPSInst_RS(ir)] +
(s64)MIPSInst_SIMM(ir);
return(0);
#endif

Five lines per instruction.

3) The signal happened during execution of emulated instruction -
signals are under control of kernel and we can easily delay a signal
during execution of emulated instruction until return from do_dsemulret.
It is not a big deal - nor code, nor performance. Thank you for good point.

4) The voice for doing any instruction emulation in kernel - it is not
a MIPS business model to force customer to put details of all
Coprocessor 2 instructions public. We provide an interface and the rest
is a customer business. Besides that it is really painful to make a
differentiation between Cavium Octeon and some another CPU instructions
with the same opcode. On other side, leaving emulation of their
instructions to them is not a wise after having some good way doing that
multiple years.

- Leonid.



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