Subject: Re: ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3)

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:56:00 -0500

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> What syntax to do that with?
> 
>   lwz %1,0(%U2)
>   stu %3, 0(%X2)
> 
> I'm new to those. (and the above does not compile)

lwz%U2%X2 %1, %2
stw%U2%X2 %3, %2

>> Why stwu with an offset of zero,
> 
> How else to do it?  stwu %3, (%2) does not compile for me.

stw %3, 0(%2)

The "u" tells it to write the effective address back to %2 -- but with 
an offset of zero, the effective address is unchanged.

-Scott