[PATCH v2 1/7] powerpc: Remove SYNC on non 6xx

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Tue Sep 29 16:09:17 AEST 2020


SYNC is usefull for Powerpc 601 only. On everything else,
SYNC is empty.

Remove it from code that is not made to run on 6xx.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S   | 1 -
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h | 1 -
 arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S    | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
index 5b282d9965a5..44c9018aed1b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ turn_on_mmu:
 	lis	r0,start_here at h
 	ori	r0,r0,start_here at l
 	mtspr	SPRN_SRR0,r0
-	SYNC
 	rfi				/* enables MMU */
 	b	.			/* prevent prefetch past rfi */
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
index 18f87bf9e32b..71c359d438b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(CPU_FTR_EMB_HV)
 #endif
 	mtspr	SPRN_SRR1,r10
 	mtspr	SPRN_SRR0,r11
-	SYNC
 	RFI				/* jump to handler, enable MMU */
 99:	b	ret_from_kernel_syscall
 .endm
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
index 7bb46ad98207..070465825c21 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
@@ -365,7 +365,6 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_smp_wait)
 
 	li	r4,KEXEC_STATE_REAL_MODE
 	stb	r4,PACAKEXECSTATE(r13)
-	SYNC
 
 	b	kexec_wait
 
-- 
2.25.0



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