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2002-01-19 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> * fpa11.h - Add documentation - remove userRegisters pointer from this structure. - add new method to obtain integer register values. * softfloat.c - Remove float128 * softfloat.h - Remove float128 * softfloat-specialize - Remove float128 * The FPA11 structure is not a kernel-specific data structure. It is used by users of ptrace to examine the values of the floating point registers. Therefore, any changes to the FPA11 structure (size or position of elements contained within) have to be well thought out. * Since 128-bit float requires the FPA11 structure to change size, it has been removed. 128-bit float is currently unused, and needs various things to be re-worked so that we won't overflow the available space in the task structure. * The changes are designed to break any patch that goes on top of this code, so that the authors properly review their changes. 1999-08-19 Scott Bambrough <scottb@netwinder.org> * fpmodule.c - Changed version number to 0.95 * fpa11.h - modified FPA11, FPREG structures * fpa11.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * fpa11_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * fpa11_cpdt.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * fpa11_cprt.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * single_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * double_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * extended_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations. * I discovered several bugs. First and worst is that the kernel passes in a pointer to the FPE's state area. This is defined as a struct user_fp (see user.h). This pointer was cast to a FPA11*. Unfortunately FPA11 and user_fp are of different sizes; user_fp is smaller. This meant that the FPE scribbled on things below its area, which is bad, as the area is in the thread_struct embedded in the process task structure. Thus we were scribbling over one of the most important structures in the entire OS. * user_fp and FPA11 have now been harmonized. Most of the changes in the above code were dereferencing problems due to moving the register type out of FPREG, and getting rid of the union variable fpvalue. * Second I noticed resetFPA11 was not always being called for a task. This should happen on the first floating point exception that occurs. It is controlled by init_flag in FPA11. The comment in the code beside init_flag state the kernel guarantees this to be zero. Not so. I found that the kernel recycles task structures, and that recycled ones may not have init_flag zeroed. I couldn't even find anything that guarantees it is zeroed when when the task structure is initially allocated. In any case I now initialize the entire FPE state in the thread structure to zero when allocated and recycled. See alloc_task_struct() and flush_thread() in arch/arm/process.c. The change to alloc_task_struct() may not be necessary, but I left it in for completeness (better safe than sorry). 1998-11-23 Scott Bambrough <scottb@netwinder.org> * README.FPE - fix typo in description of lfm/sfm instructions * NOTES - Added file to describe known bugs/problems * fpmodule.c - Changed version number to 0.94 1998-11-20 Scott Bambrough <scottb@netwinder.org> * README.FPE - fix description of URD, NRM instructions * TODO - remove URD, NRM instructions from TODO list * single_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM * double_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM * extended_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM 1998-11-19 Scott Bambrough <scottb@netwinder.org> * ChangeLog - Added this file to track changes made. * fpa11.c - added code to initialize register types to typeNone * fpa11_cpdt.c - fixed bug in storeExtended (typeExtended changed to typeDouble in switch statement) |