I was trying to write a register context saving/restoring when I came across a weird behaviour.
My code (sorry, tried to format tens of times, but the editor WANTS to make asm a table):
When the exception is returned from, the calling function:
msg = "returned from SVC\r\n";
serial_io.put_string(msg, util_str_len(msg)+1);
asm volatile (
);
msg = "cpsr = ";
util_word_to_hex(scratchpad, tmp1);
serial_io.put_string(scratchpad, 9);
serial_io.put_string("\r\n", 3);
outputs "returned from SVC" and "cpsr = 60000013".
Why the "00000002"? the barriers don't seem to have any effect.
I was so desperate that I was mentally prepared to use ETB...
But I found out that the chip used in RPi2B only has debug logic and performance counters. No other debug peripherals,- and especially: no ETB.
Darn!