/*
* Handle unaligned accesses by emulation.
*
* This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
* License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
* for more details.
*
* Copyright (C) 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002 by Ralf Baechle
* Copyright (C) 1999 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
* Copyright (C) 2014 Imagination Technologies Ltd.
*
* This file contains exception handler for address error exception with the
* special capability to execute faulting instructions in software. The
* handler does not try to handle the case when the program counter points
* to an address not aligned to a word boundary.
*
* Putting data to unaligned addresses is a bad practice even on Intel where
* only the performance is affected. Much worse is that such code is non-
* portable. Due to several programs that die on MIPS due to alignment
* problems I decided to implement this handler anyway though I originally
* didn't intend to do this at all for user code.
*
* For now I enable fixing of address errors by default to make life easier.
* I however intend to disable this somewhen in the future when the alignment
* problems with user programs have been fixed. For programmers this is the
* right way to go.
*
* Fixing address errors is a per process option. The option is inherited
* across fork(2) and execve(2) calls. If you really want to use the
* option in your use
