Re: [PATCH] alpha: fix FEN fault handling

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 07 2023 - 16:29:48 EST


On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 02:46:26AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Not sure it's worth bothering with in palcode-clipper - for Linux it's
> useless (run out of timeslice and FEN will end up set, no matter what),
> nothing in NetBSD or OpenBSD trees generates that call_pal, current
> FreeBSD doesn't support alpha and their last version to do so hadn't
> generated that call_pal either... What else is out there? OSF?

BTW, out of curiosity - what was
case 5: /* illoc */
default: /* unexpected instruction-fault type */
about in that switch in do_entIF()?

All documentation I'd been able to find had only 0..4 as expected
values (bpt/bugcheck/gentrap/fen/opdec)...