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Commit ce48b210 authored by Michael Neuling's avatar Michael Neuling Committed by Paul Mackerras
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powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore, ptrace and signal support



This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the
VSX load/stores when VSX is available.  This will make FP context
save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available,
as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits.

Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state.

The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31
doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers.  Backward
compatibility is maintained.

The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full
registers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
parent 72ffff5b
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