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Commit 249aa62c authored by Watson Zeng's avatar Watson Zeng Committed by Carles Cufí
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arch: arc: fix for hs eret has no copy of pc in interrupt entry



According to the PRMs of both ARC EM & ARC HS families on entry
to Fast IRQ handler ARC hardware saves PC (Program Counter) value
of where processor was right before jumping to the IRQ handler into
2 registers: ILINK & ERET.

But it turned out in case of ARC HS (at least in configuration with
Fast IRQs & 1 register bank) only ILINK was populated with the
previous PC, while in Zephyr we relied on what we read out of ERET.
That lead to funny issues when CPU returned from IRQ handling
to some unexpected location.

And now with that precious knowledge we're switching to return
address recovery from ILINK so that with both families of ARC
processors (EM & HS) we may get reliably good results.

The wrapper is few cycles shorter/faster as well, as we may shave off
another extra instruction for transferring ERET value from its AUX reg
to a scratch core register to be later stored in the memory.

+----+---------------+---------------+--------------+
|    | FIRQ          | RIRQ          | RIRQ(Secure) |
+----+---------------+---------------+--------------+
| HS | ILINK=PC      | ILINK=PC      | NULL         |
+----+---------------+---------------+--------------+
| EM | ILINK=ERET=PC | ILINK=ERET=PC | ILINK=PC     |
+----+---------------+---------------+--------------+

Signed-off-by: default avatarWatson Zeng <zhiwei@synopsys.com>
parent e7f222a3
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