[RFC PATCH v2 1/3] signal: Add FPE_FLTUNK si_code for undiagnosable fp exceptions

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Tue Jan 30 10:50:41 PST 2018


Some architectures cannot always report accurately what kind of
floating-point exception triggered a floating-point exception trap.

This can occur with fp exceptions occuring on lanes in a vector
instruction on arm64 for example.

Rather than have every architecture come up with its own way of
descrbing such a condition, this patch adds a common FPE_FLTUNK do
report that an fp exception caused a trap but we cannot be certain
which kind of fp exception it was.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
---
 include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
index 254afc3..450b31f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
@@ -229,7 +229,8 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
 # define __FPE_INVASC	12	/* invalid ASCII digit */
 # define __FPE_INVDEC	13	/* invalid decimal digit */
 #endif
-#define NSIGFPE		13
+#define FPE_FLTUNK	14	/* undiagnosed floating-point exception */
+#define NSIGFPE		14
 
 /*
  * SIGSEGV si_codes
-- 
2.1.4




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