On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:49:08PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Match the R4000 semantics for the initial state of interrupt/kernel > status register flags for the R3000 in kernel_thread(). > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > The R4000 variation preserves the interrupt/kernel status flags; the > R3000 assumes a certain state. It may not matter, at least at the current > state of the code, but for consistency I think the R3000 variation should > do the same as the R4000 one, first for purity and second because there is > less maintenance force available for the R3000 and any discrepancy between > the two variations means a greater chance for subtle bugs. The > performance hit is negligible. Since it doesn't seem to bite I queued this for 2.6.24. Thanks, Ralf
