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MIPS: Indicate FP mode in sigcontext sc_used_math

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The sc_used_math field of struct sigcontext & its variants has
traditionally been used as a boolean value indicating only whether or
not floating point context is saved within the sigcontext. With various
supported FP modes & the ability to switch between them this information
will no longer be enough to decode the meaning of the data stored in the
sc_fpregs fields of struct sigcontext.

To make that possible 3 bits are defined within sc_used_math:

  - Bit 0 (USED_FP) represents whether FP was used, essentially
    providing the boolean flag which sc_used_math as a whole provided
    previously.

  - Bit 1 (USED_FR1) provides the value of the Status.FR bit at the time
    the FP context was saved.

  - Bit 2 (USED_HYBRID_FPRS) indicates whether the FP context was saved
    under the hybrid FPR scheme. Essentially, when set the odd singles
    are located in bits 63:32 of the preceding even indexed sc_fpregs
    element.

Any userland that tests whether the sc_used_math field is zero or
non-zero will continue to function as expected. Having said that, I
could not find any userland which uses the sc_used_math field at all.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Fixed rejects.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10794/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton
2015-07-27 12:58:20 -07:00
committed by Ralf Baechle
parent 6a24432cf9
commit 0d071fa377
2 changed files with 20 additions and 4 deletions
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arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
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@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <asm/sgidefs.h>
/* scalar FP context was used */
#define USED_FP (1 << 0)
/* the value of Status.FR when context was saved */
#define USED_FR1 (1 << 1)
/* FR=1, but with odd singles in bits 63:32 of preceding even double */
#define USED_HYBRID_FPRS (1 << 2)
#if _MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_ABI32
/*