Any FPU_STATUS write needs setting the FWE bit (31) whcih just provides a "control signal" to enable explicit write (vs. the side-effect of FPU instructions). However this bit is RAZ and write-only, thus effectively never stored in FPU_STATUS register. Thus when reading the register there is no need to clear it. This shaves off a BCLR instruction from the fe*exceptino family of functions and while no big deal still makes sense to do.
This came up when debugging a race in math/test-fenv-tls [1] [1]: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/54 Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> --- sysdeps/arc/fpu_control.h | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/sysdeps/arc/fpu_control.h b/sysdeps/arc/fpu_control.h index c7d101e7838f..ae4348321c16 100644 --- a/sysdeps/arc/fpu_control.h +++ b/sysdeps/arc/fpu_control.h @@ -81,21 +81,20 @@ typedef unsigned int fpu_control_t; # define _FPU_SETCW(cw) __asm__ volatile ("sr %0, [0x300]" : : "r" (cw)) /* Macros for accessing the hardware status word. - FWE bit is special as it controls if actual status bits could be wrritten - explicitly (other than FPU instructions). We handle it here to keep the - callers agnostic of it: - - clear it out when reporting status bits - - always set it when changing status bits. */ + Writing to FPU_STATUS requires a "control" bit FWE to be able to set the + exception flags directly (as opposed to side-effects of FP instructions). + That is done in the macro here to keeps callers agnostic of this detail. + And given FWE is write-only and RAZ, no need to "clear" it in _FPU_GETS + macro. */ # define _FPU_GETS(cw) \ __asm__ volatile ("lr %0, [0x301] \r\n" \ - "bclr %0, %0, 31 \r\n" \ : "=r" (cw)) # define _FPU_SETS(cw) \ do { \ - unsigned int __tmp = 0x80000000 | (cw); \ + unsigned int __fwe = 0x80000000 | (cw); \ __asm__ volatile ("sr %0, [0x301] \r\n" \ - : : "r" (__tmp)); \ + : : "r" (__fwe)); \ } while (0) /* Default control word set at startup. */ -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc
