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* [POWERPC] Alignment exception uses __get/put_user_inatomicBenjamin Herrenschmidt2007-04-131-25/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the alignment exception handler use the new _inatomic variants of __get/put_user. This fixes erroneous warnings in the very rare cases where we manage to have copy_tofrom_user_inatomic() trigger an alignment exception. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctlPaul Mackerras2006-06-091-71/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change their endian mode via prctl. This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for "PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian. We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian user/kernel ABI. If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is restored to what it was when the signal was delivered. We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and one for true little-endian. Most of the classic 32-bit processors support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature table. There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry. This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: merge align.cBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-11-181-0/+530
This patch merges align.c, the result isn't quite what was in ppc64 nor what was in ppc32 :) It should implement all the functionalities of both though. Kumar, since you played with that in the past, I suppose you have some test cases for verifying that it works properly before I dig out the 601 machine ? :) Since it's likely that I won't be able to test all scenario, code inspection is much welcome. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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