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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 12 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index c33e3ad2c8fd..e3009abc7f75 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE config MATH_EMULATION bool "Math emulation" - depends on 4xx || 8xx || E200 || PPC_MPC832x || E500 + depends on 4xx || 8xx || PPC_MPC832x || BOOKE ---help--- Some PowerPC chips designed for embedded applications do not have a floating-point unit and therefore do not implement the @@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ config MATH_EMULATION unit, which will allow programs that use floating-point instructions to run. + This is also useful to emulate missing (optional) instructions + such as fsqrt on cores that do have an FPU but do not implement + them (such as Freescale BookE). + config PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM bool "Transactional Memory support for POWERPC" depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c index f18c79c324ef..f4b5687b0c66 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -1125,7 +1125,17 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) * ESR_DST (!?) or 0. In the process of chasing this with the * hardware people - not sure if it can happen on any illegal * instruction or only on FP instructions, whether there is a - * pattern to occurrences etc. -dgibson 31/Mar/2003 */ + * pattern to occurrences etc. -dgibson 31/Mar/2003 + */ + + /* + * If we support a HW FPU, we need to ensure the FP state + * if flushed into the thread_struct before attempting + * emulation + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU + flush_fp_to_thread(current); +#endif switch (do_mathemu(regs)) { case 0: emulate_single_step(regs); |