[PATCH v3] ARMv7M: Fix exception handler for supporting FPU

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Mon Aug 31 17:34:51 UTC 2015


I'd approve 2 patches in case you want to give credit. First patch
with Sudarshan's fix, and Martin's improvement second.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Gutson
<daniel.gutson at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
> Side question to Joel and others: is this enough to credit Sudarshan?
> He did an amazing job for finding the bug and proposing an initial
> solution.
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Martin Galvan
> <martin.galvan at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
>> On exception entry, _ARMV7M_Exception_default stores the previous Stack Pointer
>> in a CPU_Exception_frame. The SP can be MSP or PSP, depending on the mode
>> in which the exception was taken. To know this, we must check the value of LR.
>>
>> Right now the code checks whether it should store MSP or PSP by comparing LR to
>> -3. However, this doesn't work if we're using an FPU. This patch fixes that
>> by checking bit 2 of LR, which indicates which SP we were using.
>>
>> Thanks to Sudarshan Rajagopalan for finding the bug and proposing a first
>> version of the fix.
>>
>> Closes #2401.
>>
>> ---
>>  cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++--------
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c b/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
>> index e890cdf..d04dbea 100644
>> --- a/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
>> +++ b/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
>> @@ -22,16 +22,27 @@
>>
>>  void __attribute__((naked)) _ARMV7M_Exception_default( void )
>>  {
>> +    /* On exception entry, ARMv7M saves context state onto a stack pointed to
>> +     * by either MSP or PSP. The value stored in LR indicates whether we were
>> +     * in Thread or Handler mode, whether we were using the FPU (if any),
>> +     * and which stack pointer we were using.
>> +     * In particular, bit 2 of LR will be 0 if we were using MSP.
>> +     *
>> +     * For a more detailed explanation, see the Exception Entry Behavior
>> +     * section of the ARMv7M Architecture Reference Manual.
>> +     */
>> +
>> +    /* As we're in Handler mode here, we'll always operate on MSP.
>> +     * However, we need to store the right SP in our CPU_Exception_frame.
>> +     */
>>    __asm__ volatile (
>> -    "sub sp, %[cpufsz]\n"
>> +    "sub sp, %[cpufsz]\n" /* Allocate space for a CPU_Exception_frame. */
>>      "stm sp, {r0-r12}\n"
>> -    "mov r2, lr\n"
>> -    "mrs r1, msp\n"
>> -    "mrs r0, psp\n"
>> -    "cmn r2, #3\n"
>> -    "itt ne\n"
>> -    "movne r0, r1\n"
>> -    "addne r0, %[cpufsz]\n"
>> +    "tst lr, #4\n"       /* Check if bit 2 of LR is zero. (If so, PSR.Z = 1) */
>> +    "itte eq\n"          /* IF bit 2 of LR is zero... (PSR.Z == 1) */
>> +    "mrseq r0, msp\n"    /* THEN we were using MSP. */
>> +    "addeq r0, %[cpufsz]\n" /* THEN, set r0 = old MSP. */
>> +    "mrsne r0, psp\n"    /* ELSE it's not zero; we were using PSP. */
>>      "add r2, r0, %[v7mlroff]\n"
>>      "add r1, sp, %[cpulroff]\n"
>>      "ldm r2, {r3-r5}\n"
>> --
>> 1.9.1
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