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Commit 92b4dc16 authored by Kumar Gala's avatar Kumar Gala Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] ppc32: Simplified load string emulation error checking


The error checking for emulation of load string instructions was overly
generous and would cause certain valid forms of the instructions to be
treated as illegal.  We drop the range checking since the architecture
allows this to be boundedly undefined.  Tests on CPUs that support these
instructions appear not do cause illegal instruction traps on range errors
and just allow the execution to occur.

Thanks to Kim Phillips for debugging this and figuring out what real HW was
doing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 91f9855a
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