nds32: support denormalized result through FP emulator

Currently, the nds32 FPU dose not support the arithmetic of denormalized
number. When the nds32 FPU finds the result of the instruction is a
denormlized number, the nds32 FPU considers it to be an underflow condition
and rounds the result to an appropriate number. It may causes some loss
of precision. This commit proposes a solution to re-execute the
instruction by the FPU emulator to enhance the precision. To transfer
calculations from user space to kernel space, this feature will enable
the underflow exception trap by default. Enabling this feature may cause
some side effects:
  1. Performance loss due to extra FPU exception
  2. Need another scheme to control real underflow trap
       A new parameter, UDF_trap, which is belong to FPU context is used
     to control underflow trap.

User can configure this feature via CONFIG_SUPPORT_DENORMAL_ARITHMETIC

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/nds32/include/asm/fpu.h b/arch/nds32/include/asm/fpu.h
index 9b1107b58e23..019f1bcfc5ee 100644
--- a/arch/nds32/include/asm/fpu.h
+++ b/arch/nds32/include/asm/fpu.h
@@ -28,7 +28,18 @@ extern int do_fpuemu(struct pt_regs *regs, struct fpu_struct *fpu);
 #define sNAN64    0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL
 #define sNAN32    0xFFFFFFFFUL
 
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SUPPORT_DENORMAL_ARITHMETIC)
+/*
+ * Denormalized number is unsupported by nds32 FPU. Hence the operation
+ * is treated as underflow cases when the final result is a denormalized
+ * number. To enhance precision, underflow exception trap should be
+ * enabled by default and kerenl will re-execute it by fpu emulator
+ * when getting underflow exception.
+ */
+#define FPCSR_INIT  FPCSR_mskUDFE
+#else
 #define FPCSR_INIT  0x0UL
+#endif
 
 extern const struct fpu_struct init_fpuregs;