[PATCH v2] powerpc/hash64: Be more careful when generating tlbiel

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Oct 19 23:27:51 AEDT 2016


Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:

> From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
...
>
> Although there may be very old toolchains which don't understand tlbiel, we have
> other code in the tree which has been using tlbiel for over five years, and no
> one has reported any build failures, so just let the assembler generate the
> instructions.

Turns out this part is not true, it depends on the -mcpu you pass. So
we'll have to go back to using the macros for generating the two
argument form. v3 to come.

cheers


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