[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/asm-offset: Remove unused items related to paca

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 04/05/2021 à 12:14, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
> Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of May 4, 2021 2:46 am:
>> PACA_SIZE, PACACONTEXTID, PACALOWSLICESPSIZE, PACAHIGHSLICEPSIZE,
>> PACA_SLB_ADDR_LIMIT, MMUPSIZEDEFSIZE, PACASLBCACHE, PACASLBCACHEPTR,
>> PACASTABRR, PACAVMALLOCSLLP, MMUPSIZESLLP, PACACONTEXTSLLP,
>> PACALPPACAPTR, LPPACA_DTLIDX and PACA_DTL_RIDX are not used anymore
>> by ASM code.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> 
> Also I think SIGSEGV, NMI_MASK, THREAD_DBCR0, KUAP?, TI_FLAGS,
> TI_PREEMPT, [ID]CACHEL1*, STACK_REGS_KUAP, EXC_LVL_SIZE, KVM_NEED_FLUSH,
> KVM_FWNMI, VCPU_DEC, VCPU_SPMC, HSTATE_XICS_PHYS, HSTATE_SAVED_XIRR,
> PPC_DBELL_MSGTYPE I think. While we're cleaning it up.

Yes, thanks for checking.

I think we can safely remove KUAP.

But we can't remove EXC_LVL_SIZE, it is used in kernel/head_booke.h which is probably included in 
head_44x.S and head_fsl_booke.S

Christophe