[PATCH] [POWERPC] convert transfer_to_handler into a macro

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 1 09:45:02 EST 2008


On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:04:08 -0500
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 03:02 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> got that.  Does 40x/44x have anything similar we need to save/ 
> >> restore?
> >
> > MMUCR I'd say... look at what our tlbie does there...
> 
> thanks.  Will take a look.  I just plan on overloading MMUCR with MAS0.

Erg.  Why?  Please don't do that.  This is common code and MAS0 doesn't
make much sense on 4xx.  It'll be confusing to anyone that isn't aware
of this change.

Can we come up with a generic #define that gets used instead?

josh



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