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Paul Mackerras authored
The main thing here is that the signal delivery/return code for real-time signals has been changed so that the layout of the registers corresponds with the new ucontext_t definition being used by glibc. The old ucontext_t didn't have space to actually store the registers, just a pointer to them, which made it impossible to implement set/getcontext et al. The new ucontext_t includes a mcontext_t which actually contains space to store all of the general, floating pointer and vector registers. We now also save the altivec registers on signal delivery and restore them on return from the signal if the process has ever used altivec (since the last exec). Finally this adds a swapcontext system call. Swapcontext really needs to be done in the kernel since on PPC, only privileged code can set all three of CTR, LR and NIA (next instruction address) to arbitrary values. Also the kernel know if the process currently owns the FP and altivec units and can optimize in the case where it doesn't.
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