[PATCH 2/3] powerpc/mm/slb: Move comment next to the code it's referring to

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Aug 2 18:21:02 AEST 2017


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

> There is a comment in slb_allocate() referring to the load of
> paca->vmalloc_sllp, but it's several lines prior in the assembly.
> We're about to change this code, and we want to add another comment,
> so move the comment immediately prior to the instruction it's talking
> about.
>

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
> index bde378559d01..2eb1b92a68ff 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
> @@ -121,12 +121,13 @@ slb_miss_kernel_load_vmemmap:
>  1:
>  #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
>
> -	/* vmalloc mapping gets the encoding from the PACA as the mapping
> -	 * can be demoted from 64K -> 4K dynamically on some machines
> -	 */
>  	clrldi	r11,r10,48
>  	cmpldi	r11,(H_VMALLOC_SIZE >> 28) - 1
>  	bgt	5f
> +	/*
> +	 * vmalloc mapping gets the encoding from the PACA as the mapping
> +	 * can be demoted from 64K -> 4K dynamically on some machines.
> +	 */
>  	lhz	r11,PACAVMALLOCSLLP(r13)
>  	b	6f
>  5:
> -- 
> 2.7.4



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