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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k•org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse•de>,
	kvm-ppc@vger•kernel.org, kvm@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: elide struct thread_struct instances from stack
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:36:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5krrvy2.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100531224040.GA22927@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> (Paul Mackerras's message of "Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:40:40 +1000")

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org> writes:

> I re-read the relevant part of the PowerPC architecture spec
> yesterday, and it seems pretty clear that the FPSCR doesn't affect the
> behaviour of lfs and stfs, and is not affected by them.  So in fact 4
> out of the 7 instructions in each of those procedures are unnecessary
> (and similarly for the cvt_fd/df used in the alignment fixup code).

I'd prefer to have this deferred to a separate patch.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-31 19:59 [PATCH] KVM: PPC: elide struct thread_struct instances from stack Andreas Schwab
2010-05-31 20:00 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-31 22:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-05-31 23:27   ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-01  8:36   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-06-01  9:19     ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-02 16:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti

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