linux-kernel - Re: Microblaze arch/microblaze/kernel/head.S: redundant code?

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Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:23:13 +0100
From:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To:	Adrian McMenamin <lkmladrian@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Microblaze arch/microblaze/kernel/head.S: redundant code?

Hi,

On 10/31/2014 04:15 PM, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Looking at this code at line 78 (in 3.17 kernel) it has:
> 
>     mfs r1, rmsr
>     msrclr r8, 0
>     cmpu r8, r8, r1
> 
> But as far as I can see the result of that comparison is never used - the
> comments state it is to test if the msrclr  instruction is enabled.

r8 is used when machine_early_init() is called.
r8 is 4th register which is used for passing args based on Microblaze
reference manual.

Thanks,
Michal

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