From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
To: Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add basic R5900 support
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:23:22 +0100 [thread overview]
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Hi Fredrik,
> Debian-based Black Rhino libc.so.6 declares "ELF 32-bit LSB MIPS-III
> version 1" but functions such as strcmp contain both 64-bit and multimedia
> instructions (presumably hand coded in assembly for the R5900):
>
> 6005ea90 <strcmp>:
> ...
> 6005eb50: 78880000 lq t0,0(a0)
> 6005eb54: 710043a9 pcpyud t0,t0,zero
> 6005eb58: 1000000c b 6005eb8c <strcmp+0xfc>
> 6005eb5c: 71204ba9 pcpyud t1,t1,zero
> 6005eb60: dc880000 ld t0,0(a0)
> 6005eb64: 24840008 addiu a0,a0,8
> 6005eb68: dca90000 ld t1,0(a1)
> 6005eb6c: 710072a8 pceqb t6,t0,zero
> 6005eb70: 71207aa8 pceqb t7,t1,zero
> 6005eb74: 01cf7025 or t6,t6,t7
> 6005eb78: 71097aa8 pceqb t7,t0,t1
> ...
>
> Hence corruption and register sign-extension failures. One can also note
> that according to the TX-79 manual, for a 32-bit kernel, several MIPS I
> instruction operations are undefined unless registers are sign-extended.
That's a standard architectural requirement, not related to the kernel
being 32-bit or 64-bit. Overall all 32-bit ALU operations, except for SLL
and SLLV, mandate that their input operands have been sign-extended from
bit #31.
I think you need to find another libc (or the whole userland), as I
previously suggested. I don't think we want to enable non-standard
userland semantics, not as yet at least. Having code supported like the
snippet you have quoted above would I believe essentially boil down to
Linux o64 ABI support, and anyway I think GAS should reject MMI
instructions in the o32 assembly mode (which is something that was missed
in R5900 support review). I'll think on a suitable fix for GAS.
> It is unfortunate that these instructions seem untrappable by the R5900,
> instead silently causing strange behaviour and invalid results.
Indeed, there's no way to trap with operations that break the 32-bit
sign-extension requirement. That's no different though from how the
64-bit Linux kernel has operated for o32 software since forever; we don't
clear the CP0.Status.UX bit for o32 tasks, although a discussion has been
underway about changing it as it breaks indexed addressing (not a concern
for the R5900, as a MIPS IV+ feature, e.g. LDXC1). This has complications
though as we'd have to implement a TLB refill handler along with the XTLB
refill handler, which is already taking space the former requires.
> Still left to explain is why the kernel stumbles on registers during
> initialisation, before user applications are invoked.
Good luck!
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-17 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-27 13:23 [PATCH] MIPS: Add basic R5900 support Fredrik Noring
2017-08-28 13:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2017-08-28 17:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-29 17:33 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-08-29 17:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-29 17:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-30 13:23 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-08-31 15:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-31 15:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-02 10:28 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-09 10:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-09 10:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11 5:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11 5:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-12 17:59 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-15 11:12 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-15 11:12 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-15 13:19 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-15 18:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-15 18:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-02 14:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Fredrik Noring
2017-09-11 5:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11 5:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-11 15:17 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-14 13:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-14 13:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-16 13:34 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-18 17:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-18 17:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-18 19:24 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-19 12:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-19 12:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-20 14:54 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-26 11:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-26 11:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-27 17:21 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-28 12:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-28 12:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-30 6:56 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-02 9:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-02 9:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-02 16:33 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-29 17:20 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-11-10 23:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-10 23:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-11 16:04 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-01-29 20:27 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-01-31 23:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-11 7:29 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround for the short loop bug Fredrik Noring
2018-02-12 9:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-12 15:22 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 7:46 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Use SYNC.L for data cache and SYNC.P for instruction cache Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 7:56 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround exception NOP execution bug (FLX05) Fredrik Noring
2018-02-12 9:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-15 19:15 ` [RFC v2] " Fredrik Noring
2018-02-15 20:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 11:16 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 11:57 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 13:38 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 15:03 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 20:04 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-20 14:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-22 17:04 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-18 8:47 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-20 14:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-22 17:27 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 8:01 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround for CACHE instruction near branch delay slot Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 11:16 ` Aw: " "Jürgen Urban"
2018-02-11 8:09 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: The ERET instruction has issues with delay slot and CACHE Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 11:07 ` Aw: " "Jürgen Urban"
2018-02-11 8:29 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Use mandatory SYNC.L in exception handlers Fredrik Noring
2018-02-11 10:33 ` Aw: " "Jürgen Urban"
2018-02-12 9:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-12 9:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-18 10:30 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 14:43 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround for saving and restoring FPU registers Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 15:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-17 17:47 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-02-17 19:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-02-18 9:26 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Workaround where MSB must be 0 for the instruction cache Fredrik Noring
2018-02-18 11:08 ` [RFC] MIPS: R5900: Add mandatory SYNC.P to all M[FT]C0 instructions Fredrik Noring
2018-03-03 12:26 ` [RFC] MIPS: PS2: Interrupt request (IRQ) support Fredrik Noring
2018-03-03 13:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-03-03 14:14 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-04-09 15:51 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-03-18 10:45 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-03-19 19:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-06-18 18:52 ` [RFC v2] " Fredrik Noring
2017-10-30 17:55 ` [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add basic R5900 support Fredrik Noring
2017-11-24 10:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-24 10:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-24 10:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-11-24 10:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-20 14:07 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-21 21:07 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-21 21:07 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-22 16:37 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-22 16:37 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-09-29 23:55 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-29 23:55 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-30 18:26 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-02 9:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-02 9:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-03 19:49 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-05 19:04 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-06 20:28 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-15 16:39 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-17 12:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2017-10-17 12:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-21 18:00 ` Fredrik Noring
2017-10-23 16:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-23 16:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-21 18:11 ` Paul Burton
2017-09-21 18:11 ` Paul Burton
2017-09-21 19:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-09-21 19:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-10-29 18:42 ` Fredrik Noring
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