Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:15:38 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] ARM: Pass IFSR register to do_PrefetchAbort() | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> |
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote: > Instruction fault status register, IFSR, was introduced on ARMv6 to > provide status information about the last insturction fault. It > needed for proper prefetch abort handling. > > Now we have three prefetch abort model: > > * legacy - for CPUs before ARMv6. They doesn't provide neither > IFSR nor IFAR. We simulate IFSR with section translation fault > status for them to generalize code; > * ARMv6 - provides IFSR, but not IFAR; > * ARMv7 - provides both IFSR and IFAR. > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
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