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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2007-11-22 12:32:01 -0500
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2008-01-26 09:41:28 -0500
commitc98929c07a01c9ec2e1e5253456acc7168da8b66 (patch)
tree7d0014de51fe530b95bce7f74d9122229067f850 /arch/arm/Kconfig
parent9b73e76f3cf63379dcf45fcd4f112f5812418d0a (diff)
[ARM] 4582/2: Add support for the common VFP subarchitecture
This patch allows the VFP support code to run correctly on CPUs compatible with the common VFP subarchitecture specification (Appendix B in the ARM ARM v7-A and v7-R edition). It implements support for VFP subarchitecture 2 while being backwards compatible with subarchitecture 1. On VFP subarchitecture 1, the arithmetic exceptions are asynchronous (or imprecise as described in the old ARM ARM) unless the FPSCR.IXE bit is 1. The exceptional instructions can be read from FPINST and FPINST2 registers. With VFP subarchitecture 2, the arithmetic exceptions can also be synchronous and marked by the FPEXC.DEX bit (the FPEXC.EX bit is cleared). CPUs implementing the synchronous arithmetic exceptions don't have the FPINST and FPINST2 registers and accessing them would trigger and undefined exception. Note that FPEXC.EX bit has an additional meaning on subarchitecture 1 - if it isn't set, there is no additional information in FPINST and FPINST2 that needs to be saved at context switch or when lazy-loading the VFP state of a different thread. The patch also removes the clearing of the cumulative exception flags in FPSCR when additional exceptions were raised. It is up to the user application to clear these bits. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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