Enabling CONFIG_USER_DEBUG allows NWFPE to complain about every FP
exception, which with some programs can cause the kernel message log
to fill with NWFPE debug, swamping out other messages.
This change allows NWFPE debugging to be configured at run time.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Some machine classes need to allow VFP support to be built into the
kernel, but still allow the kernel to run even though VFP isn't
present. Unfortunately, the kernel hard-codes VFP instructions
into the thread switch, which prevents this being run-time selectable.
Solve this by introducing a notifier which things such as VFP can
hook into to be informed of events which affect the VFP subsystem
(eg, creation and destruction of threads, switches between threads.)
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Richard Purdie
NWFPE used global variables which meant it wasn't safe for use with
preemptive kernels. This patch removes them and communicates the
information between functions in a preempt safe manner. Generation
of some exceptions was broken and this has also been corrected.
Tests with glibc's maths test suite show no change in the results
before/after this patch.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Recent changes to nwfpe broke the build with some gcc versions:
In file included from arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.c:33:
arch/arm/nwfpe/fpa11.h:32: global register variable follows a function definition
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.o] Error 1
Since we now ensure that the kernel stack is empty when returning
to user space, we can now access the userspace registers with
reference to the kernel stack using current_thread_info(), rather
than remembering the stack pointer at the time nwfpe was called.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Russell King