* Re: Microblaze arch/microblaze/kernel/head.S: redundant code?
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@ 2014-10-31 15:23 ` Michal Simek
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From: Michal Simek @ 2014-10-31 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Adrian McMenamin, LKML
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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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