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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2021-01-30 23:08:20 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2021-02-09 00:02:09 +1100
commit73d7a97914f23397b012e851f6a1fe4061923a82 (patch)
tree5852141852c3e55d503b75b8666afbcbb4b57ab7 /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
parentpowerpc: DebugException remove args (diff)
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powerpc/32: transfer can avoid saving r4/r5 over trace call
Now that handlers get all registers from pt_regs, r4 and r5 are no longer live here and may be clobbered. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130130852.2952424-11-npiggin@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 238eacfda7b0..d6ea3f2d6cc0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ reenable_mmu:
* We save a bunch of GPRs,
* r3 can be different from GPR3(r1) at this point, r9 and r11
* contains the old MSR and handler address respectively,
- * r4 & r5 can contain page fault arguments that need to be passed
- * along as well. r0, r6-r8, r12, CCR, CTR, XER etc... are left
+ * r0, r4-r8, r12, CCR, CTR, XER etc... are left
* clobbered as they aren't useful past this point.
*/
@@ -285,15 +284,11 @@ reenable_mmu:
stw r9,8(r1)
stw r11,12(r1)
stw r3,16(r1)
- stw r4,20(r1)
- stw r5,24(r1)
/* If we are disabling interrupts (normal case), simply log it with
* lockdep
*/
1: bl trace_hardirqs_off
- lwz r5,24(r1)
- lwz r4,20(r1)
lwz r3,16(r1)
lwz r11,12(r1)
lwz r9,8(r1)