[PATCH v2] Documentation: Fill the gaps about entry/noinstr constraints
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Dec 6 09:36:51 PST 2021
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 07:48:08PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/1/21 12:35, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > +Aside of that many architectures have to save register state, e.g. debug or
>
> state (e.g. debug) or
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> > +cause registers before another exception of the same type can happen. A
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> ^^^^^ cannot parse (with or without the change to the previous line)
I think the difficulty here is with "cause register"? That' a register which
indicates the cause of an exception, e.g.
* MIPS has `cause` (coprocessor 0 register 13)
* arm64 / AArch64 has `ESR_ELx` (Exception Syndrome Register, ELx)
We could probably clarify this as "exception cause registers" or "exception
status registers", if that helps?
Thanks,
Mark.
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