bug in arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S: __ashrdi3?

[Andreas Schwab]

Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm at frankvm.com> writes:

> I don't really grok the code but an operand seems to be missing and the
> assembler makes something out of it I don't trust:
>
> _GLOBAL(__ashrdi3)
> 	...
> 	rlwinm  r8,r7,0,32      # t3 = (count < 32) ? 32 : 0

32 == 0x80000000 >> 26

> 00000000 <f>:
> f():
>    0:   54 e8 06 b4     rlwinm  r8,r7,0,26,26

The mask begins at bit 26 and ends at bit 26 (counted from the left).

Andreas.

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