[PATCH] ARC: Change ld.as instruction to regular ld.

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Hi Liav,

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 09:23 +0300, Liav Rehana wrote:
> From: Liav Rehana <liavr at mellanox.com>
> 
> User mode callee regs are explicitly collected before signal delivery
> or breakpoint trap. r25 is special for kernel as it serves as task
> pointer, so user mode value is clobbered very early. It is saved in
> pt_regs where generally only scratch (caller saved) res are saved.
> The code to access the corresponding pt_regs location had a subtle bug
> as it was using load/store with scaling of offset, whereas the offset
> was already byte wise correct. So fix this by replacing LD.AS with a
> standard LD
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liav Rehana <liavr at mellanox.com>

That nice patch really fixes quite annoying issue when r25 got
printed improperly in gdb!

So

Tested-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>


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