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From: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
To: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace "addi" with "addiu"
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:54:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C0BAAC.8020702@imgtec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150121180200.GC15278@NP-P-BURTON>

On 01/21/2015 06:02 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:59:59AM -0800, David Daney wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> In both this & the MSA asmmacro.h cases, the additions should never
> cause overflow. So I agree, backporting to stable seems like overkill.
> 
> Paul
> 

Maciej suggested to backport it to stable branches. I personally don't mind.


-- 
markos

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From: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
To: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace "addi" with "addiu"
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:54:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C0BAAC.8020702@imgtec.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20150122085404.M_u1Llz6ai1TRtcI5B-uCrOAZShJ2pDTG43lNsUxz5c@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150121180200.GC15278@NP-P-BURTON>

On 01/21/2015 06:02 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:59:59AM -0800, David Daney wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> In both this & the MSA asmmacro.h cases, the additions should never
> cause overflow. So I agree, backporting to stable seems like overkill.
> 
> Paul
> 

Maciej suggested to backport it to stable branches. I personally don't mind.


-- 
markos

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-22  8:54 UTC|newest]

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
2015-01-21 18:02   ` Paul Burton
2015-01-21 18:02     ` Paul Burton
2015-01-22  8:54     ` Markos Chandras [this message]
2015-01-22  8:54       ` Markos Chandras

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