Re: [PATCH] MIPS64: R6: R2 emulation bugfix

[Markos Chandras]

On 04/29/2015 10:49 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, James Hogan wrote:
> 
>>> Error recovery pointers for fixups was improperly set as ".word"
>>> which is unsuitable for MIPS64.
>>>
>>> Replaced by __stringify(PTR)
>>
>> Every other case of this sort of thing uses STR(PTR) (or __UA_ADDR in
>> uaccess.h). Can we stick to STR(PTR) for consistency please?
> 
>  Or __PA_ADDR in paccess.h.
> 
>  I have mixed feelings, the reason for __stringify being absent is the 
> macro being generic and more recently added than pieces of code that use 
> STR, e.g. unaligned.c that has been there since forever.  And we do use 
> __stringify in many other cases.
> 
>  On the other hand STR is short and sweet, unlike __stringify.

The patch overall looks good to me so here is my

Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx>

I do agree with James that it would be nice to have it in stable 4.0+ as
well.

I don't particularly care if STR() is going to be used at the end or we
stick to __stringify. Both are used in arch/mips/* anyway

-- 
markos
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