linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] MIPS: memset.S: Add comments to fault fixup handlers

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Message-ID: <20180521161443.GA9998@jamesdev>
Date:   Mon, 21 May 2018 17:14:45 +0100
From:   James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
To:     Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...s.com>
Cc:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] MIPS: memset.S: Add comments to fault fixup
 handlers

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Matt Redfearn wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/memset.S b/arch/mips/lib/memset.S
> index 1cc306520a55..a06dabe99d4b 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/lib/memset.S
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/memset.S
> @@ -231,16 +231,25 @@
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6
>  .Lbyte_fixup\@:
> +	/*
> +	 * unset_bytes = current_addr + 1
> +	 *      a2     =      t0      + 1

The code looks more like a2 = 1 - t0 to me:

> +	 */
>  	PTR_SUBU	a2, $0, t0
>  	jr		ra
>  	 PTR_ADDIU	a2, 1

I.e. t0 counts up to 1 and then stops.

Anyway I've applied patch 3 for 4.18.

Cheers
James

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