Re: [PATCH 6/6] MIPS: CPS: drop .set mips64r2 directives

From: Paul Burton
Date: Sat Sep 12 2015 - 11:14:42 EST


Thanks John,

That's fine & understood, it's the month before that when these sat
quietly - through the release of a kernel which they fix a regression in
no less, and despite my having asked Ralf on IRC about them a couple of
weeks before v4.2 was released.

If they just fell off the radar or through the cracks, fine, it happens.
I just want to be sure that regression gets fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Paul

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 08:13:07AM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> --> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2015-09/msg00057.html
>
> John
>
> On 10/09/2015 20:03, Paul Burton wrote:
> > Ralf: is there a reason you've only applied patch 1 of this series?
> >
> > v4.2 is broken because these didn't get in (despite being submitted well
> > before the release), and master is still broken because they still
> > haven't gotten in. If there's a reason you didn't merge them please let
> > me know, otherwise please can we get them in ASAP.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 03:42:40PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> >> Commit 977e043d5ea1 ("MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace mips32r2 ISA level
> >> with mips64r2") leads to .set mips64r2 directives being present in 32
> >> bit (ie. CONFIG_32BIT=y) kernels. This is incorrect & leads to MIPS64
> >> instructions being emitted by the assembler when expanding
> >> pseudo-instructions. For example the "move" instruction can legitimately
> >> be expanded to a "daddu". This causes problems when the kernel is run on
> >> a MIPS32 CPU, as CONFIG_32BIT kernels of course often are...
> >>
> >> Fix this by dropping the .set <ISA> directives entirely now that Kconfig
> >> should be ensuring that kernels including this code are built with a
> >> suitable -march= compiler flag.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.16+
> >> ---
> >>
> >> arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S | 2 --
> >> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S b/arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S
> >> index 209ded1..763d8b7 100644
> >> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S
> >> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S
> >> @@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ LEAF(mips_cps_core_init)
> >> has_mt t0, 3f
> >>
> >> .set push
> >> - .set mips64r2
> >> .set mt
> >>
> >> /* Only allow 1 TC per VPE to execute... */
> >> @@ -348,7 +347,6 @@ LEAF(mips_cps_boot_vpes)
> >> nop
> >>
> >> .set push
> >> - .set mips64r2
> >> .set mt
> >>
> >> 1: /* Enter VPE configuration state */
> >> --
> >> 2.5.0
> >>
> >
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