[PATCH 02/20] powerpc/8xx: Map linear kernel RAM with 8M pages

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 13 17:00:43 AEST 2015


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:40:56PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>  	/* Insert level 1 index */
>  	rlwimi	r11, r10, 32 - ((PAGE_SHIFT - 2) << 1), (PAGE_SHIFT - 2) << 1, 29
>  	lwz	r11, (swapper_pg_dir-PAGE_OFFSET)@l(r11)	/* Get the level 1 entry */
> +	mtcr	r11

Maybe mtcrf is faster?  You only want one field, anyhow.

> +	bgt-	cr7,5f		/* CR7.GT = bit 29 = Large page (8M or 512K) */

You can write this as   bt- 29,5f   which should be easier to read.

>  	/* Insert level 1 index */
>  3:	rlwimi	r11, r10, 32 - ((PAGE_SHIFT - 2) << 1), (PAGE_SHIFT - 2) << 1, 29
>  	lwz	r11, (swapper_pg_dir-PAGE_OFFSET)@l(r11)	/* Get the level 1 entry */
> +	mtcr	r11
> +	bgt	cr7,200f

Same here...  Probably good to comment it, too.


Segher


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