Hybrid FPRs is a scheme where scalar FP registers are 64b wide, but
accesses to odd indexed single registers use bits 63:32 of the
preceeding even indexed 64b register. In this mode all FP code
except that built for the plain FP64 ABI can execute correctly. Most
notably a combination of FP64A & FP32 code can execute correctly,
allowing for existing FP32 binaries to be linked with new FP64A binaries
that can make use of 64 bit FP & MSA.
Hybrid FPRs are implemented by setting both the FR & FRE bits, trapping
& emulating single precision FP instructions (via Reserved Instruction
exceptions) whilst allowing others to execute natively. It therefore has
a penalty in terms of execution speed, and should only be used when no
fully native mode can be. As more binaries are recompiled to use either
the FPXX or FP64(A) ABIs, the need for hybrid FPRs should diminish.
However in the short to mid term it allows for a gradual transition
towards that world, rather than a complete ABI break which is not
feasible for some users & not desirable for many.
A task will be executed using the hybrid FPR scheme when its
TIF_HYBRID_FPREGS flag is set & TIF_32BIT_FPREGS is clear. A further
patch will set the flags as necessary, this patch simply adds the
infrastructure necessary for the hybrid FPR mode to work.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7683/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Starting with version 2.24.51.20140728 MIPS binutils complain loudly
about mixing soft-float and hard-float object files, leading to this
build failure since GCC is invoked with "-msoft-float" on MIPS:
{standard input}: Warning: .gnu_attribute 4,3 requires `softfloat'
LD arch/mips/alchemy/common/built-in.o
mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu-ld: Warning: arch/mips/alchemy/common/built-in.o
uses -msoft-float (set by arch/mips/alchemy/common/prom.o),
arch/mips/alchemy/common/sleeper.o uses -mhard-float
To fix this, we detect if GAS is new enough to support "-msoft-float" command
option, and if it does, we can let GCC pass it to GAS; but then we also need
to sprinkle the files which make use of floating point registers with the
necessary ".set hardfloat" directives.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8355/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Preemption must be disabled throughout the process of enabling the FPU,
enabling MSA & initialising the vector registers. Without doing so it
is possible to lose the FPU or MSA whilst initialising them causing
that initialisation to fail.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7307/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The kernel depends upon MSA never being enabled when the FPU is not, a
condition which is currently violated in a few places (whilst saving
sigcontext, following mips_cpu_save). Catch all the problem cases by
disabling MSA in lose_fpu, after saving context if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7302/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch replaces the fpureg_t typedef with a "union fpureg" enabling
easier access to 32 & 64 bit values. This allows the access macros used
in cp1emu.c to be simplified somewhat. It will also make it easier to
expand the width of the FP registers as will be done in a future
patch in order to support the 128 bit registers introduced with MSA.
No behavioural change is intended by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6532/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Commit 597ce1723e ("MIPS: Support for 64-bit FP with O32 binaries")
introduced references to two undefined Kconfig macros. CONFIG_MIPS32_R2
should clearly be replaced with CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R2. And CONFIG_MIPS64
should be replaced with CONFIG_64BIT.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6522/
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
__enable_fpu produces a build failure when CONFIG_BUG is not set:
In file included from arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c:24:0:
arch/mips/include/asm/fpu.h: In function '__enable_fpu':
arch/mips/include/asm/fpu.h:77:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
This is regression introduced in 3.14-rc1. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6504/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CPUs implementing MIPS32 R2 may include a 64-bit FPU, just as MIPS64 CPUs
do. In order to preserve backwards compatibility a 64-bit FPU will act
like a 32-bit FPU (by accessing doubles from the least significant 32
bits of an even-odd pair of FP registers) when the Status.FR bit is
zero, again just like a mips64 CPU. The standard O32 ABI is defined
expecting a 32-bit FPU, however recent toolchains support use of a
64-bit FPU from an O32 MIPS32 executable. When an ELF executable is
built to use a 64-bit FPU a new flag (EF_MIPS_FP64) is set in the ELF
header.
With this patch the kernel will check the EF_MIPS_FP64 flag when
executing an O32 binary, and set Status.FR accordingly. The addition
of O32 64-bit FP support lessens the opportunity for optimisation in
the FPU emulator, so a CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT Kconfig option is
introduced to allow this support to be disabled for those that don't
require it.
Inspired by an earlier patch by Leonid Yegoshin, but implemented more
cleanly & correctly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6154/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
