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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-07-14 20:52:54 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-08-20 00:12:27 (GMT)
commitee43eb788b3a06425fffb912677e2e1c8b00dd3b (patch)
tree7233cb47647837ab00af81270b3a16555d88a1f1 /arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h
parent8aa34ab8b2dc96ca6c4feecfb87ed13f0d40ef98 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-ee43eb788b3a06425fffb912677e2e1c8b00dd3b.tar.xz
powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)
The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer. We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc.. and the current choice isn't always the best. This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to what those are used for on each processor family. The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all the SPRGs. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h b/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h
index e26eb86..bae3fba 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/exception.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
.globl label##_iSeries; \
label##_iSeries: \
HMT_MEDIUM; \
- mtspr SPRN_SPRG1,r13; /* save r13 */ \
+ mtspr SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH0,r13; /* save r13 */ \
EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1(area); \
EXCEPTION_PROLOG_ISERIES_1; \
b label##_common
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ label##_iSeries: \
.globl label##_iSeries; \
label##_iSeries: \
HMT_MEDIUM; \
- mtspr SPRN_SPRG1,r13; /* save r13 */ \
+ mtspr SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH0,r13; /* save r13 */ \
EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1(PACA_EXGEN); \
lbz r10,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13); \
cmpwi 0,r10,0; \