[PATCH] ARM: Correct the FPSCR bits setting when raising exceptions

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Feb 5 05:46:24 EST 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:45 +0000, Eric Miao wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > Commit c98929c07a removed the clearing of the FPSCR[31:28] bits from the
> > vfp_raise_exceptions() function and the new bits are or'ed with the old
> > FPSCR bits leading to unexpected results (the original commit was
> > referring to the cumulative bits - FPSCR[4:0]).
> >
> 
> What's the status of this patch? Looks like a sane fix to me and apparently
> it seems Marvell cores are confused without this already.

It was accepted by Russell and queued for mainline (patch 5909/1).

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Catalin




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