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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: math-emu: remove unneeded header search paths</title>
<updated>2019-01-14T09:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-11T03:22:33+00:00</published>
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The header search path -I. in kernel Makefiles is very suspicious;
it allows the compiler to search for headers in the top of $(srctree),
where obviously no header file exists.

-Iinclude/math-emu seems unnecessary because all files include headers
in the form of #include &lt;math-emu/...&gt;.

I was able to build without these header search paths.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>Replace &lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt; with &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt; globally</title>
<updated>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</published>
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T00:33:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Chivers</name>
<email>schivers@csc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-21T01:29:48+00:00</published>
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The emulated (CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION_FULL)
PowerPC Floating Point instruction mtfsf
does not correctly copy bits from its source
register to the Floating Point Status and Register (FPSCR).

The error is in the preparation of the mask used to
select the bits to be copied from the source to the FPSCR.

Execution of the mtfsf instruction does not produce the same
results on a MPC8548 platform (emulated floating point)
as on MPC7410 or 440EP platforms (hardware floating point).

This error has been detected using a Freescale MPC8548
based platform and the patch below tested using that platform.

The patch is based on the patch(es) provided by
Gabriel Paubert and analysis by Gabriel, James Yang and David Laight.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Chivers &lt;schivers@csc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Paubert &lt;paubert@iram.es&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers &lt;schivers@csc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix e500 SPE float SIGFPE generation</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T00:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-04T16:55:05+00:00</published>
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The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code is called from
SPEFloatingPointException and SPEFloatingPointRoundException in
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c.  Those functions have support for
generating SIGFPE, but do_spe_mathemu and speround_handler don't
generate a return value to indicate that this should be done.  Such a
return value should depend on whether an exception is raised that has
been set via prctl to generate SIGFPE.  This patch adds the relevant
logic in these functions so that SIGFPE is generated as expected by
the glibc testsuite.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix e500 SPE float to integer and fixed-point conversions</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T00:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-04T16:54:46+00:00</published>
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The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code has several problems in how
it handles conversions to integer and fixed-point fractional types.

There are the following 20 relevant instructions.  These can convert
to signed or unsigned 32-bit integers, either rounding towards zero
(as correct for C casts from floating-point to integer) or according
to the current rounding mode, or to signed or unsigned 32-bit
fixed-point values (values in the range [-1, 1) or [0, 1)).  For
conversion from double precision there are also instructions to
convert to 64-bit integers, rounding towards zero, although as far as
I know those instructions are completely theoretical (they are only
defined for implementations that support both SPE and classic 64-bit,
and I'm not aware of any such hardware even though the architecture
definition permits that combination).

#define EFSCTUI		0x2d4
#define EFSCTSI		0x2d5
#define EFSCTUF		0x2d6
#define EFSCTSF		0x2d7
#define EFSCTUIZ	0x2d8
#define EFSCTSIZ	0x2da

#define EVFSCTUI	0x294
#define EVFSCTSI	0x295
#define EVFSCTUF	0x296
#define EVFSCTSF	0x297
#define EVFSCTUIZ	0x298
#define EVFSCTSIZ	0x29a

#define EFDCTUIDZ	0x2ea
#define EFDCTSIDZ	0x2eb

#define EFDCTUI		0x2f4
#define EFDCTSI		0x2f5
#define EFDCTUF		0x2f6
#define EFDCTSF		0x2f7
#define EFDCTUIZ	0x2f8
#define EFDCTSIZ	0x2fa

The emulation code, for the instructions that come in variants
rounding either towards zero or according to the current rounding
direction, uses "if (func &amp; 0x4)" as a condition for using _FP_ROUND
(otherwise _FP_ROUND_ZERO is used).  The condition is correct, but the
code it controls isn't.  Whether _FP_ROUND or _FP_ROUND_ZERO is used
makes no difference, as the effect of those soft-fp macros is to round
an intermediate floating-point result using the low three bits (the
last one sticky) of the working format.  As these operations are
dealing with a freshly unpacked floating-point input, those low bits
are zero and no rounding occurs.  The emulation code then uses the
FP_TO_INT_* macros for the actual integer conversion, with the effect
of always rounding towards zero; for rounding according to the current
rounding direction, it should be using FP_TO_INT_ROUND_*.

The instructions in question have semantics defined (in the Power ISA
documents) for out-of-range values and NaNs: out-of-range values
saturate and NaNs are converted to zero.  The emulation does nothing
to follow those semantics for NaNs (the soft-fp handling is to treat
them as infinities), and messes up the saturation semantics.  For
single-precision conversion to integers, (((func &amp; 0x3) != 0) || SB_s)
is the condition used for doing a signed conversion.  The first part
is correct, but the second isn't: negative numbers should result in
saturation to 0 when converted to unsigned.  Double-precision
conversion to 64-bit integers correctly uses ((func &amp; 0x1) == 0).
Double-precision conversion to 32-bit integers uses (((func &amp; 0x3) !=
0) || DB_s), with correct first part and incorrect second part.  And
vector float conversion to integers uses (((func &amp; 0x3) != 0) ||
SB0_s) (and similar for the other vector element), where the sign bit
check is again wrong.

The incorrect handling of negative numbers converted to unsigned was
introduced in commit afc0a07d4a283599ac3a6a31d7454e9baaeccca0.  The
rationale given there was a C testcase with cast from float to
unsigned int.  Conversion of out-of-range floating-point numbers to
integer types in C is undefined behavior in the base standard, defined
in Annex F to produce an unspecified value.  That is, the C testcase
used to justify that patch is incorrect - there is no ISO C
requirement for a particular value resulting from this conversion -
and in any case, the correct semantics for such emulation are the
semantics for the instruction (unsigned saturation, which is what it
does in hardware when the emulation is disabled).

The conversion to fixed-point values has its own problems.  That code
doesn't try to do a full emulation; it relies on the trap handler only
being called for arguments that are infinities, NaNs, subnormal or out
of range.  That's fine, but the logic ((vb.wp[1] &gt;&gt; 23) == 0xff &amp;&amp;
((vb.wp[1] &amp; 0x7fffff) &gt; 0)) for NaN detection won't detect negative
NaNs as being NaNs (the same applies for the double-precision case),
and subnormals are mapped to 0 rather than respecting the rounding
mode; the code should also explicitly raise the "invalid" exception.
The code for vectors works by executing the scalar float instruction
with the trapping disabled, meaning at least subnormals won't be
handled correctly.

As well as all those problems in the main emulation code, the rounding
handler - used to emulate rounding upward and downward when not
supported in hardware and when no higher priority exception occurred -
has its own problems.

* It gets called in some cases even for the instructions rounding to
  zero, and then acts according to the current rounding mode when it
  should just leave alone the truncated result provided by hardware.

* It presumes that the result is a single-precision, double-precision
  or single-precision vector as appropriate for the instruction type,
  determines the sign of the result accordingly, and then adjusts the
  result based on that sign and the rounding mode.

  - In the single-precision cases at least the sign determination for
    an integer result is the same as for a floating-point result; in
    the double-precision case, converted to 32-bit integer or fixed
    point, the sign of a double-precision value is in the high part of
    the register but it's the low part of the register that has the
    result of the conversion.

  - If the result is unsigned fixed-point, its sign may be wrongly
    determined as negative (does not actually cause problems, because
    inexact unsigned fixed-point results with the high bit set can
    only appear when converting from double, in which case the sign
    determination is instead wrongly using the high part of the
    register).

  - If the sign of the result is correctly determined as negative, any
    adjustment required to change the truncated result to one correct
    for the rounding mode should be in the opposite direction for
    two's-complement integers as for sign-magnitude floating-point
    values.

  - And if the integer result is zero, the correct sign can only be
    determined by examining the original operand, and not at all (as
    far as I can tell) if the operand and result are the same
    register.

This patch fixes all these problems (as far as possible, given the
inability to determine the correct sign in the rounding handler when
the truncated result is 0, the conversion is to a signed type and the
truncated result has overwritten the original operand).  Conversion to
fixed-point now uses full emulation, and does not use "asm" in the
vector case; the semantics are exactly those of converting to integer
according to the current rounding direction, once the exponent has
been adjusted, so the code makes such an adjustment then uses the
FP_TO_INT_ROUND macros.

The testcase I used for verifying that the instructions (other than
the theoretical conversions to 64-bit integers) produce the correct
results is at &lt;http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/8/708&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix e500 SPE float rounding inexactness detection</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T00:33:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-04T16:53:14+00:00</published>
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The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code for the rounding modes
rounding to positive or negative infinity (which may not be
implemented in hardware) tries to avoid emulating rounding if the
result was inexact.  However, it tests inexactness using the sticky
bit with the cumulative result of previous operations, rather than
with the non-sticky bits relating to the operation that generated the
interrupt.  Furthermore, when a vector operation generates the
interrupt, it's possible that only one of the low and high parts is
inexact, and so only that part should have rounding emulated.  This
results in incorrect rounding of exact results in these modes when the
sticky bit is set from a previous operation.

(I'm not sure why the rounding interrupts are generated at all when
the result is exact, but empirically the hardware does generate them.)

This patch checks for inexactness using the correct bits of SPEFSCR,
and ensures that rounding only occurs when the relevant part of the
result was actually inexact.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix exception clearing in e500 SPE float emulation</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T00:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-10T23:07:45+00:00</published>
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The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code clears existing exceptions
(__FPU_FPSCR &amp;= ~FP_EX_MASK;) before ORing in the exceptions from the
emulated operation.  However, these exception bits are the "sticky",
cumulative exception bits, and should only be cleared by the user
program setting SPEFSCR, not implicitly by any floating-point
instruction (whether executed purely by the hardware or emulated).
The spurious clearing of these bits shows up as missing exceptions in
glibc testing.

Fixing this, however, is not as simple as just not clearing the bits,
because while the bits may be from previous floating-point operations
(in which case they should not be cleared), the processor can also set
the sticky bits itself before the interrupt for an exception occurs,
and this can happen in cases when IEEE 754 semantics are that the
sticky bit should not be set.  Specifically, the "invalid" sticky bit
is set in various cases with non-finite operands, where IEEE 754
semantics do not involve raising such an exception, and the
"underflow" sticky bit is set in cases of exact underflow, whereas
IEEE 754 semantics are that this flag is set only for inexact
underflow.  Thus, for correct emulation the kernel needs to know the
setting of these two sticky bits before the instruction being
emulated.

When a floating-point operation raises an exception, the kernel can
note the state of the sticky bits immediately afterwards.  Some
&lt;fenv.h&gt; functions that affect the state of these bits, such as
fesetenv and feholdexcept, need to use prctl with PR_GET_FPEXC and
PR_SET_FPEXC anyway, and so it is natural to record the state of those
bits during that call into the kernel and so avoid any need for a
separate call into the kernel to inform it of a change to those bits.
Thus, the interface I chose to use (in this patch and the glibc port)
is that one of those prctl calls must be made after any userspace
change to those sticky bits, other than through a floating-point
operation that traps into the kernel anyway.  feclearexcept and
fesetexceptflag duly make those calls, which would not be required
were it not for this issue.

The previous EGLIBC port, and the uClibc code copied from it, is
fundamentally broken as regards any use of prctl for floating-point
exceptions because it didn't use the PR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE bit in its
prctl calls (and did various worse things, such as passing a pointer
when prctl expected an integer).  If you avoid anything where prctl is
used, the clearing of sticky bits still means it will never give
anything approximating correct exception semantics with existing
kernels.  I don't believe the patch makes things any worse for
existing code that doesn't try to inform the kernel of changes to
sticky bits - such code may get incorrect exceptions in some cases,
but it would have done so anyway in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/math-emu: Fix load/store indexed emulation</title>
<updated>2013-08-14T04:59:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Yang</name>
<email>James.Yang@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T21:18:44+00:00</published>
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Load/store indexed instructions where the index register RA=R0, such
as "lfdx f1,0,r3", are not illegal.

Load/store indexed with update instructions where the index register
RA=R0, such as "lfdux f1,0,r3", are invalid, and, to be consistent
with existing math-emu behavior for other invalid instruction forms,
will signal as illegal.

Signed-off-by: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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