[PATCH] ARM: V7M: Preserve registers across switch from Thread to Handler mode
Vladimir Murzin
vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Thu Mar 30 01:09:51 PDT 2017
According to ARMv7 ARM, when exception is taken content of r0-r3, r12
is unknown (see ExceptionTaken() pseudocode). Even though existent
implementations keep these register unchanged, preserve them to be in
line with architecture.
Reported-by: Dobromir Stefanov <dobromir.stefanov at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
---
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7m.S | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7m.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7m.S
index 5049777..47a5acc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7m.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7m.S
@@ -135,9 +135,11 @@ __v7m_setup_cont:
dsb
mov r6, lr @ save LR
ldr sp, =init_thread_union + THREAD_START_SP
+ stmia sp, {r0-r3, r12}
cpsie i
svc #0
1: cpsid i
+ ldmia sp, {r0-r3, r12}
str r5, [r12, #11 * 4] @ restore the original SVC vector entry
mov lr, r6 @ restore LR
--
1.9.1
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