This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/64e: Convert cmpi to cmpwi in head_64.S to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-64e-convert-cmpi-to-cmpwi-in-head_64.s.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f87f253bac3ce4a4eb2a60a1ae604d74e65f9042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:02:07 +1100 Subject: powerpc/64e: Convert cmpi to cmpwi in head_64.S From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> commit f87f253bac3ce4a4eb2a60a1ae604d74e65f9042 upstream. >From 80f23935cadb ("powerpc: Convert cmp to cmpd in idle enter sequence"): PowerPC's "cmp" instruction has four operands. Normally people write "cmpw" or "cmpd" for the second cmp operand 0 or 1. But, frequently people forget, and write "cmp" with just three operands. With older binutils this is silently accepted as if this was "cmpw", while often "cmpd" is wanted. With newer binutils GAS will complain about this for 64-bit code. For 32-bit code it still silently assumes "cmpw" is what is meant. In this case, cmpwi is called for, so this is just a build fix for new toolchains. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S @@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ booting_thread_hwid: */ _GLOBAL(book3e_start_thread) LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r5, MSR_KERNEL) - cmpi 0, r3, 0 + cmpwi r3, 0 beq 10f - cmpi 0, r3, 1 + cmpwi r3, 1 beq 11f /* If the thread id is invalid, just exit. */ b 13f @@ -241,9 +241,9 @@ _GLOBAL(book3e_start_thread) * r3 = the thread physical id */ _GLOBAL(book3e_stop_thread) - cmpi 0, r3, 0 + cmpwi r3, 0 beq 10f - cmpi 0, r3, 1 + cmpwi r3, 1 beq 10f /* If the thread id is invalid, just exit. */ b 13f Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/powerpc-boot-request-no-dynamic-linker-for-boot-wrapper.patch queue-4.9/perf-annotate-don-t-throw-error-for-zero-length-symbols.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-64e-convert-cmpi-to-cmpwi-in-head_64.s.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html