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SubjectRe: MIPS: return after handling coprocessor 2 exception
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:13:18AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 06/17/2010 06:25 AM, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> >Breaking here dropped us to the default code which always sends
> >a SIGILL to the current process, no matter what the CU2 notifier says.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson<jesper@jni.nu>
> >---
> > traps.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
> >index 8bdd6a6..8527808 100644
> >--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
> >+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
> >@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >
> > case 2:
> > raw_notifier_call_chain(&cu2_chain, CU2_EXCEPTION, regs);
> >- break;
> >+ return;
> >
>
> What happens when the call chain is empty, and the proper action *is*
> SIGILL?

Well, since there is a default notifier installed at the end, it will
correctly return SIGILL.

See the definition of default_cu2_call in the same file.

> David Daney

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
--
Jesper Nilsson -- jesper_at_jni.nu


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