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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2412021732560.44939@angie.orcam.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 17:37:15 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Rename read/write_c0_ecc to
 read/writec0_errctl

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> CP0 register 26 is used as ECC register for legacy cores, but newer
> cores (MIPS32/MIPS64) use it as an ErrCtl register. Since the kernel only
> uses CP0 26 as ErrCtl register rename the access functions to the more
> fitting name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk>

 Makes sense to me, thanks!

 NB there are further subtleties here, e.g. the 20Kc has DErrCtl at select 
0 and IErrCtl at select 1.

  Maciej

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