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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-03-29 14:52:00 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-04-02 12:12:48 -0400
commite17235382dbb05f70146e141e4b780fd069050dc (patch)
treed4da45df23c48ac7e0e4f61821125174a39e436a /arch/tile/kernel/traps.c
parent5f639fdcd8c186c8128c616e94a7e7b159c968ae (diff)
downloadlinux-e17235382dbb05f70146e141e4b780fd069050dc.tar.bz2
arch/tile: work around a hardware issue with the return-address stack
In certain circumstances we need to do a bunch of jump-and-link instructions to fill the hardware return-address stack with nonzero values. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kernel/traps.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/tile/kernel/traps.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c b/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c
index 2bb6602a1ee7..32acfd9e23d0 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c
@@ -289,7 +289,10 @@ void __kprobes do_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, int fault_num,
address = regs->pc;
break;
#ifdef __tilegx__
- case INT_ILL_TRANS:
+ case INT_ILL_TRANS: {
+ /* Avoid a hardware erratum with the return address stack. */
+ fill_ra_stack();
+
signo = SIGSEGV;
code = SEGV_MAPERR;
if (reason & SPR_ILL_TRANS_REASON__I_STREAM_VA_RMASK)
@@ -297,6 +300,7 @@ void __kprobes do_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, int fault_num,
else
address = 0; /* FIXME: GX: single-step for address */
break;
+ }
#endif
default:
panic("Unexpected do_trap interrupt number %d", fault_num);