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| author | Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> | 2015-01-08 13:17:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2015-02-12 12:30:29 +0100 |
| commit | 9791554b45a2acc28247f66a5fd5bbc212a6b8c8 (patch) | |
| tree | b23e43745d5b5f10b004dcbe216b5a02ad6018ec /kernel/sys.c | |
| parent | MIPS: cevt-r4k: Drop GIC special case (diff) | |
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MIPS,prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_FP_MODE prctl options for MIPS
Userland code may be built using an ABI which permits linking to objects
that have more restrictive floating point requirements. For example,
userland code may be built to target the O32 FPXX ABI. Such code may be
linked with other FPXX code, or code built for either one of the more
restrictive FP32 or FP64. When linking with more restrictive code, the
overall requirement of the process becomes that of the more restrictive
code. The kernel has no way to know in advance which mode the process
will need to be executed in, and indeed it may need to change during
execution. The dynamic loader is the only code which will know the
overall required mode, and so it needs to have a means to instruct the
kernel to switch the FP mode of the process.
This patch introduces 2 new options to the prctl syscall which provide
such a capability. The FP mode of the process is represented as a
simple bitmask combining a number of mode bits mirroring those present
in the hardware. Userland can either retrieve the current FP mode of
the process:
mode = prctl(PR_GET_FP_MODE);
or modify the current FP mode of the process:
err = prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, new_mode);
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8899/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index a8c9f5a7dda6..08b16bbdcdf0 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ #ifndef MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT # define MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT(a) (-EINVAL) #endif +#ifndef GET_FP_MODE +# define GET_FP_MODE(a) (-EINVAL) +#endif +#ifndef SET_FP_MODE +# define SET_FP_MODE(a,b) (-EINVAL) +#endif /* * this is where the system-wide overflow UID and GID are defined, for @@ -2215,6 +2221,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3, case PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT: error = MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT(me); break; + case PR_SET_FP_MODE: + error = SET_FP_MODE(me, arg2); + break; + case PR_GET_FP_MODE: + error = GET_FP_MODE(me); + break; default: error = -EINVAL; break; |