[PATCH 00/16] Finally remove PSERIES from exception naming

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 12:12:39 AEST 2018


On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:07:01 +1000
Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> This finally annoyed me enough to do something about it, I foolishly started
> pulling the string and now here I am.
> 
> I think the end result is sufficiently more readable to justify the churn. I
> particularly like that we now have EXCEPTION_PROLOG_0/1/2.
> 
> It will cause some pain for backports, but Nick plans to rewrite the exception
> vectors entirely at some point so this will be trivial in comparison.

Yeah I have no problem with this series. I'll get onto that rewrite
again soon.

Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

> 
> cheers
> 
> 
> Michael Ellerman (16):
>   powerpc/64s: Move SET_SCRATCH0() into EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES()
>   powerpc/64s: Move SET_SCRATCH0() into EXCEPTION_RELON_PROLOG_PSERIES()
>   powerpc/64s: Rename STD_EXCEPTION_PSERIES to STD_EXCEPTION
>   powerpc/64s: Rename STD_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL to STD_EXCEPTION_OOL
>   powerpc/64s: Rename STD_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES to STD_RELON_EXCEPTION
>   powerpc/64s: Rename STD_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL to
>     STD_RELON_EXCEPTION_OOL
>   powerpc/64s: Rename EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES_1 to EXCEPTION_PROLOG_2
>   powerpc/64s: Remove PSERIES from the NORI macros
>   powerpc/64s: Rename EXCEPTION_RELON_PROLOG_PSERIES_1
>   powerpc/64s: Rename EXCEPTION_RELON_PROLOG_PSERIES
>   powerpc/64s: Rename EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES to EXCEPTION_PROLOG
>   powerpc/64s: Drop _MASKABLE_EXCEPTION_PSERIES()
>   powerpc/64s: Drop _MASKABLE_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES()
>   powerpc/64s: Remove PSERIES naming from the MASKABLE macros
>   powerpc/64s: Drop unused loc parameter to MASKABLE_EXCEPTION macros
>   powerpc/64s: Don't use __MASKABLE_EXCEPTION unnecessarily
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 117 ++++++++++++++-----------------
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/head-64.h       |  16 ++---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S     |  32 ++++-----
>  3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
> 



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