Re: [PATCH 04/28] nios2: Exception handling

[Ley Foon Tan]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ley Foon,
>
> Are you sure this is correct? Have you tested this works correctly?
>
> Last time I tested this, it caused the traced_system_call to be taken
> for every system call. I already reported and provided a patch a few
> months ago:
>
> http://lists.rocketboards.org/pipermail/nios2-dev/2014-January/006968.html
>
> Here's my proposed fix:
>
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S b/arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S
> index 9cf2bac..3798008 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -204,13 +204,10 @@ ENTRY(handle_system_call)
>         ldw     r1, %lo(sys_call_table)(r1)
>         beq     r1, r0, ret_invsyscall
>
> -       /* Get thread info pointer */
> -       movi    r11, %lo(0xfffff000)
> -       and     r11, sp, r11
> -       ldw     r11, TI_FLAGS(r11)
> -
> -       /* If someone is ptrace:ing us, take the long way. */
> -       BTBNZ   r11, r11, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE, traced_system_call
> +       /* Check if we are being traced */
> +       GET_THREAD_INFO r11
> +       ldw     r11,TI_FLAGS(r11)
> +       BTBNZ   r11,r11,TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE,traced_system_call
>
>         /* Execute the system call */
>         callr   r1
I think I missed out this in nios2-dev ML previously. I will take your fix.
Thanks.

Regards
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