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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Song Shuai <songshuaishuai@tinylab.org>
Cc: paul.walmsley@sifive.com,  palmer@dabbelt.com,
	 aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, mick@ics.forth.gr,  alex@ghiti.fr,
	 linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: kexec: Cleanup riscv_kexec_relocate
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:38:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmy1hr4q69.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FBD24A55B409E4DF+71a45adc-2e20-ea3c-a8ea-7341862991c6@tinylab.org> (Song Shuai's message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:55:54 +0800")

On Aug 31 2023, Song Shuai wrote:

> Hi, Andreas:
>
> 在 2023/8/30 15:24, Andreas Schwab 写道:
>> On Aug 30 2023, Song Shuai wrote:
>> 
>>> @@ -52,21 +42,27 @@ SYM_CODE_START(riscv_kexec_relocate)
>>>   	 * the start of the loop below so that we jump there in
>>>   	 * any case.
>>>   	 */
>>> -	la	s8, 1f
>>> -	sub	s8, s8, s7
>>> -	csrw	CSR_STVEC, s8
>>> +	la	s6, 1f
>>> +	sub	s6, s6, s4
>>> +	csrw	CSR_STVEC, s6
>>> +
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * With C-extension, here we get 42 Bytes and the next
>>> +	 * .align directive would pad zeros here up to 44 Bytes.
>>> +	 * So manually put a nop here to avoid zeros padding.
>>> +	*/
>>> +	nop
>>>     	/* Process entries in a loop */
>>>   .align 2
>> While you are at it, I'd suggest being explicit about .palign
>> vs. .balign.
>> 
> How about this commemt:

My suggestion is to change .align 2 in the last line to .palign 2 as
part of the cleanup.  The meaning of .align is target dependent, and
someone not familiar with RISC-V may misinterpret it.

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      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-30  6:34 [PATCH] riscv: kexec: Cleanup riscv_kexec_relocate Song Shuai
2023-08-30  7:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-08-31  6:55   ` Song Shuai
2023-08-31  7:38     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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