linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ptrace: Make FPU context layout comments match reality

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Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 22:34:28 +0100
From:   James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...s.com>
Cc:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ptrace: Make FPU context layout comments match
 reality

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:03:09PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Correct comments across ptrace(2) handlers about an FPU register context
> layout discrepancy between MIPS I and later ISAs, which was fixed with
> `linux-mips.org' (LMO) commit 42533948caac ("Major pile of FP emulator
> changes."), the fix corrected with LMO commit 849fa7a50dff ("R3k FPU
> ptrace() handling fixes."), and then broken and fixed over and over
> again, until last time fixed with commit 80cbfad79096 ("MIPS: Correct
> MIPS I FP context layout").
> 
> NB running the GDB test suite for the relevant ABI/ISA and watching out 
> for regressions is advisable when poking around ptrace(2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...s.com>

Thanks, applied for 4.18.

Cheers
James

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