[PATCH 3/9] powerpc/64s: SLB miss already has CTR saved for relocatable kernel

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:45:06 +1000
Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1 used by SLB miss already saves CTR when the
> > kernel is built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. So it does not have to be
> > saved and reloaded when branching to slb_miss_realmode. It can be
> > restored from the PACA as usual.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 13 +++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> > index a4a71bce35d6..486e205cc762 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> > @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ EXC_REAL_BEGIN(data_access_slb, 0x380, 0x80)
> >  	 * because the distance from here to there depends on where
> >  	 * the kernel ends up being put.
> >  	 */
> > -	mfctr	r11
> > +	/* CTR is saved if RELOCATABLE */
> >  	LOAD_HANDLER(r10, slb_miss_realmode)
> >  	mtctr	r10
> >  	bctr  
> 
> AFAICS these can all use BRANCH_TO_COMMON().
> 
> So I'll drop all the comment additions from this and do a follow-up to
> switch to BRANCH_TO_COMMON().

That will tidy up those ifdefs nicely. Good catch.

Thanks,
Nick