Hi Russell,
On 01/07/2014 17:58, Russell King wrote:
> ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
> to return from function calls. Recent CPUs perform better when the
> "bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
> and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
> architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).
>
> We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
> code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.
>
> Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
> the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
> the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code. This allows us to detect
> the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
> of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It booted on Armada XP, Armada 370, Armada 385 and Armada 375
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Gregory
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Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
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