linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/10] MIPS: support for hybrid FPRs

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Message-ID: <20141223235108.GA582@fuloong-minipc.musicnaut.iki.fi>
Date:	Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:51:08 +0200
From:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
To:	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
Cc:	Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] MIPS: support for hybrid FPRs

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:31:54PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 01:21:11AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:30:20AM +0100, Paul Burton wrote:
> > > Hybrid FPRs is a scheme where scalar FP registers are 64b wide, but
> > > accesses to odd indexed single registers use bits 63:32 of the
> > > preceeding even indexed 64b register. In this mode all FP code
> > > except that built for the plain FP64 ABI can execute correctly. Most
> > > notably a combination of FP64A & FP32 code can execute correctly,
> > > allowing for existing FP32 binaries to be linked with new FP64A binaries
> > > that can make use of 64 bit FP & MSA.
> > 
> > This commit (4227a2d4efc9c84f35826dc4d1e6dc183f6c1c05, bisected)
> > in 3.19-rc1 breaks my Loongson-2F system. I get endless amount
> > of "Reserved instruction in kernel code" exceptions when booting.
> > See some examples below. Nothing crashes, and there is some forward
> > progress, but obviously it's completely unusable.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > [    2.872000] Reserved instruction in kernel code[#1]:
> ...
> > Code: 30420001  2c420001  0040202d <40038005> 2405feff  00651824  40838005  3c032000  3c052400 
> 
> 0x40038005 = mfc0 v1,$16,5 = mfc0 v1,Config5
> 
> Does this help (in linux-next)?:
> http://git.linux-mips.org/cgit/ralf/upstream-sfr.git/commit/?id=5bba8dec735f18fe7a2fcd8327f28ef095337ff2

Yes, it does. Many thanks!

A.
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