On 05/07/2016 15:48, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 05:34:33PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: > >> These patches change the MIPS KVM exception entry code to be dynamically >> assembled by the MIPS "uasm" in-kernel assembler, directly into unmapped >> memory at run time by a new entry.c. Previously this code was statically >> assembled from locore.S at build time and later copied into unmapped >> memory at run time. >> >> Patches 1-5 add support for the necessary instructions to uasm. >> >> Patches 6-8 do the minimal-change conversion of locore.S to entry.c >> using uasm (I've used -M10% so the diff is shown as a file move). >> >> Patches 9-14 make some related improvements that are possible now that >> it is dynamically generated, such as avoiding messy runtime conditionals >> in assembly code, making use of KScratch registers when available, and >> simplifying the initial GP register save sequence & jump to common code. >> >> Ralf: Since the uasm patches (1-5) are needed for the later patches, I >> suggest these all go together via the KVM tree (on which the whole >> patchset is based), so Acks are welcome if they're okay with you. > > Yes, please, so for the MIPS bits, that is patche 01..05: > > Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Good, I'll apply the whole bunch. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
