RE: [ECOS] Why Just even registers get saved during registerwindowsunder/over flow in Sparc? Thanks.

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>]

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:59, Qiang Huang wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Do you mean the whole register windows (8 windows)
> will all be saved to stack while a context switching happens?  Why I just
> can't find the code does such job in the context.S --
> "hal_thread_switch_context:"  in the save part it seems it just save a
> single register window rather than the whole 8(or less) register windows?
> Also in the "hal_thread_load_context" it just load a single register window
> from stack rather than 8(or less) register windows. Or am I going in the
> wrong way? Thanks a lot!
> 

Actually, what happens is that when the new context is being "loaded",
it causes all of the windows for the previous thread to fault (overflow)
and be saved.  It's all kind of magic, but it works.

> Best regards!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gthomas@ecoscentric.com]
> Sent: 13 August 2002 14:15
> To: Qiang Huang
> Cc: Ecos-Discuss (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Why Just even registers get saved during
> registerwindows under/over flow in Sparc? Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 06:24, Qiang Huang wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >    In the overflow/underflow handler in Sparc why just a single register
> > window(Isn't that all the register windows get saved to stack?) get saved
> > and why just even register get saved? Thanks a lot.
> 
> A Nick indicated yesterday, the entire window set is saved
> when a thread switch occurs.  Other than that, it makes sense
> to only bother with a single window when an under/overflow
> happens.
> 
> As for "even registers only"; look more closely.  The registers
> are being saved as even/odd register pairs.  For example, the
> instruction (std %l0,[%sp+0]) saves registers %l0 and %l1 in
> a single instruction.  Much faster.
> 
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