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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam.mj@au1.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianess before kexec
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:04:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708040455.GA9086@pale.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436322938.2658.60.camel@freescale.com>

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:35:38PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> Also, it would be better to use label subtraction rather than hardcoding 
> "28", and the bcl instruction would be more readable as "bl <label>".

I agree about using labels, but "bcl 20,31,foo" is not the same thing
as "bl foo".  The former is a form of bl that doesn't perturb the link
stack and is therefore better for performance when you're not going to
do a matching blr later (not that performance is at all critical
here).

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-08  1:23 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianess before kexec Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2015-07-08  1:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/kexec: Reset HILE before kexec_sequence Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2015-07-08  6:14   ` Stewart Smith
2015-07-08  2:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianess before kexec Scott Wood
2015-07-08  4:04   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2015-07-08  4:22     ` Scott Wood
2015-07-09 15:42       ` Segher Boessenkool
2015-07-09 20:27         ` Scott Wood

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