Re: [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Use copy_s.fmt rather than copy_u.fmt

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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:59:41AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:07:23AM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> 
> > From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In revision 1.12 of the MSA specification, the copy_u.w instruction has
> > been removed for MIPS32 & the copy_u.d instruction has been removed for
> > MIPS64. Newer toolchains (eg. Codescape SDK essentials 2015.10) will
> > complain about this like so:
> > 
> > arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S:290: Error: opcode not supported on this
> > processor: mips32r2 (mips32r2) `copy_u.w $1,$w26[3]'
> > 
> > Since we always copy to the width of a GPR, simply use copy_s instead of
> > copy_u to fix this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.1.x-
> 
> Looking good but seems to apply only to 4.3+
> 
>   Ralf

Yes, sorry. Without bf82cb30c7e58b3a9742f0a45962ebdf51befac7 I figured
the changes in r4k_fpu.S can be easily skipped, but actually I should
have looked deeper as the macros aren't even used until that commit.

Could you change the stable tag to 4.3 please.

Thanks!
James

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