Strange code in head.S

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Mar 6 11:02:40 EST 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 00:23, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While looking at head.S, I noticed that in the FTR Section
> CPU_FTR_HAS_HIGH_BATS, the register used during all the mtspr
> SPRN_DBATxx,r20 is r20.
> But shouldn't it be r10 ?
> In the 2.4 version it was r20 but for all the preceding code of
> clear_bat, it has been replaced with r10 but not in the FTR ...
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not working on an arch that uses it. It's just
> seems strange to me ...

Good catch !

Ben.


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