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From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au, paulus@samba.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make system_reset_pSeries relocatable
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:57:28 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160727135728.GC3720@350D> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160727215003.16b9feaf@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:50:03PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:32:06 +1000
> Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
> > +	b	power7_wakeup_common
> > +#else
> > +	/*
> > +	 * We can't just use a direct branch to power7_wakeup_common
> > +	 * because the distance from here to there depends on where
> > +	 * the kernel ends up being put.
> > +	 */
> > +	mfctr	r11
> > +	ld	r10, PACAKBASE(r13)
> > +	LOAD_HANDLER(r10, power7_wakeup_common)
> > +	mtctr	r10
> > +	bctr
> >  #endif
> 
> So r10 and r11 are safe to use (as well as existing registers
> being used without saving) because we are returning via the nap
> functions that caller will expect te trash volatile registers,
> yes?
>

r10, r11 are volatile as per the ABI, so yes.

 
> In that caie I can't see a problem with this.
>

Thanks for the review

Balbir 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-27 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-27  7:32 [PATCH] Make system_reset_pSeries relocatable Balbir Singh
2016-07-27  9:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-07-27 10:01   ` Balbir Singh
2016-07-27 11:51     ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-07-27 10:12 ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-27 11:34 ` Balbir Singh
2016-07-27 11:50 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-07-27 13:57   ` Balbir Singh [this message]

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