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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/3] MIPS: Setup an instruction emulation in VDSO protected page instead of user stack
On 10/10/2014 03:56 PM, David Daney wrote:
>
>> > Right, look at uprobes, it does exactly all this with a single page.
>> > Slot allocation will block waiting for a free slot when all are in
>> use.
>>
>> I don't see a reason to change my 300 lines design into much more
>> lengthy code. That code has more links to the rest of kernel and high
>> possibility to execute atomic operation/locks/mutex/etc - I can't do it
>> for emulation of MIPS locking instructions.
>>
>
> It isn't just the number of lines of code that is important.
>
> Doesn't your solution consume an extra page for each thread requiring
> emulation? That could be a significant amount of memory in a system
> with many threads.

Yes, you right. However, per-thread memory is useful for many goals.

>
> Are you are using this to emulate atomic operations in addition to FPU
> branch delay slot instructions? Where is the code that does that?

Yes, in MIPS R2 emulator - MIPS R6 changed LL/LLD/SC/SCD opcodes and
offset size.
The code-in-developement is in
ssh://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/yegoshin/mips.git, branch
android-linux-mti-3.10.14

- Leonid.


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