[PATCH 04/20] powerpc/powernv: Don't clobber r9 in relative_toc()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Sep 20 13:44:51 EST 2011


With OPAL, r8 and r9 will be used to pass the OPAL base and entry
for debugging purposes (those informations are also in the
device-tree). We don't want to clobber those registers that
early.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index 3564c49..e708abe 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -674,9 +674,9 @@ _GLOBAL(enable_64b_mode)
 _GLOBAL(relative_toc)
 	mflr	r0
 	bcl	20,31,$+4
-0:	mflr	r9
-	ld	r2,(p_toc - 0b)(r9)
-	add	r2,r2,r9
+0:	mflr	r11
+	ld	r2,(p_toc - 0b)(r11)
+	add	r2,r2,r11
 	mtlr	r0
 	blr
 
-- 
1.7.4.1



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