[PATCH 07/23] powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 10:55:33 AEST 2022
On Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 3:32 PM AEST, Rohan McLure wrote:
> Interrupt handlers on 64s systems will often need to save register state
> from the interrupted process to make space for loading special purpose
> registers or for internal state.
>
> Fix a comment documenting a common code path macro in the beginning of
> interrupt handlers where r10 is saved to the PACA to afford space for
> the value of the CFAR. Comment is currently written as if r10-r12 are
> saved to PACA, but in fact only r10 is saved, with r11-r12 saved much
> later. The distance in code between these saves has grown over the many
> revisions of this macro. Fix this by signalling with a comment where
> r11-r12 are saved to the PACA.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure at linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> ---
> V1 -> V2: Given its own commit
> V2 -> V3: Annotate r11-r12 save locations with comment.
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> index 3d0dc133a9ae..a3b51441b039 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> mfspr r9,SPRN_PPR
> END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
> HMT_MEDIUM
> - std r10,IAREA+EX_R10(r13) /* save r10 - r12 */
> + std r10,IAREA+EX_R10(r13) /* save r10 */
> .if ICFAR
> BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> mfspr r10,SPRN_CFAR
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_CFAR)
> mfctr r10
> std r10,IAREA+EX_CTR(r13)
> mfcr r9
> - std r11,IAREA+EX_R11(r13)
> + std r11,IAREA+EX_R11(r13) /* save r11 - r12 */
> std r12,IAREA+EX_R12(r13)
>
> /*
> --
> 2.34.1
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