From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Use copy_s.fmt rather than copy_u.fmt
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:59:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160415095941.GI1524@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460711246-4394-2-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:07:23AM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
>
> In revision 1.12 of the MSA specification, the copy_u.w instruction has
> been removed for MIPS32 & the copy_u.d instruction has been removed for
> MIPS64. Newer toolchains (eg. Codescape SDK essentials 2015.10) will
> complain about this like so:
>
> arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S:290: Error: opcode not supported on this
> processor: mips32r2 (mips32r2) `copy_u.w $1,$w26[3]'
>
> Since we always copy to the width of a GPR, simply use copy_s instead of
> copy_u to fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.1.x-
Looking good but seems to apply only to 4.3+
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-15 9:07 [PATCH 0/4] MIPS: MSA fixes James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Use copy_s.fmt rather than copy_u.fmt James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:59 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2016-04-15 10:15 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 10:15 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 10:28 ` Ralf Baechle
2016-04-15 9:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] MIPS: Fix MSA ld_*/st_* asm macros to use PTR_ADDU James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] MIPS: Fix MSA assembly with big thread offsets James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Fix MSA assembly warnings James Hogan
2016-04-15 9:07 ` James Hogan
2016-04-15 10:11 ` [PATCH 0/4] MIPS: MSA fixes Ralf Baechle
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