From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace "addi" with "addiu"
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:59:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BFE91F.7050906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421854030-28929-1-git-send-email-markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
On 01/21/2015 07:27 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> The "addi" instruction will trap on overflows which is not something
> we need in this code, so we replace that with "addiu".
>
> Link: http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2015-01/msg00430.html
> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.15+
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Same comment about the stable thing. Is it needed for anything other
than follow-on MIPS r6 Patches?
> ---
> Moving this out of the R6 patchset as requested by Maciej
> ---
> arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 15:27 [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace "addi" with "addiu" Markos Chandras
2015-01-21 15:27 ` Markos Chandras
2015-01-21 17:59 ` David Daney [this message]
2015-01-21 18:02 ` Paul Burton
2015-01-21 18:02 ` Paul Burton
2015-01-22 8:54 ` Markos Chandras
2015-01-22 8:54 ` Markos Chandras
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