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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/booke64: Use common defines for AltiVec interrupts numbers
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 03:02:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC31298B-CEB3-4F35-9400-7C5CEC50BF66@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372726613.8183.104@snotra>


On 02.07.2013, at 02:56, Scott Wood wrote:

> On 07/01/2013 07:18:21 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 01.07.2013, at 17:35, Mihai Caraman wrote:
>> > On Book3E some SPE/FP/AltiVec interrupts share the same number. Use
>> > common defines to indentify these numbers.
>> So why didn't this happen from the beginning?
>=20
> Ask Kumar.
>=20
>> Why the change?
>=20
> So we can remove this hack in kvm_asm.h:
>=20
> /*
> * TODO: Unify 32-bit and 64-bit kernel exception handlers to use same =
defines
> */
> #define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_UNAVAIL =
BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL
> #define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_FP_DATA =
BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_FP_DATA_ALTIVEC_ASSIST
> #define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL =
BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL
> #define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_ASSIST \
>                                =
BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_FP_DATA_ALTIVEC_ASSIST
>=20
> It was added as a compilation fix, and it was less intrusive to =
temporarily fix it this way.
>=20
> I am curious why the above code wasn't removed at the end of this =
patchset. :-)

Yeah, and why the intention isn't clearly written down in the patch =
description ;)


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-01 15:35 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/booke64: Use common defines for AltiVec interrupts numbers Mihai Caraman
2013-07-01 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/fsl-booke: Use common defines for SPE/FP " Mihai Caraman
2013-07-02  0:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/booke64: Use common defines for AltiVec " Alexander Graf
2013-07-02  0:56   ` Scott Wood
2013-07-02  1:02     ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2013-07-03 12:25     ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008

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