From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932356Ab2DMUMT (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:12:19 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:52378 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932255Ab2DMUMP (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:12:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120413.161210.474133806577823888.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT] Sparc From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20120413.152455.900761231064979707.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 24.0.95 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:46:34 -0700 > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >> With special guest sparc64 assembler hacker, Paul E. McKenney. > > Oh christ. You're teaching *more* people about sparc64? > > Where will it end? :-) > That said, Looking at the patch, it looks a bit dubious. Why does the > > cmp %l1, 0 > > instruction remain, even if the conditional branch was deleted? I'm > not seeing any subsequent uses of %icc, but hey, I'm no sparc expert > (nor do I want to be). It's unnecessary but harmless, I'll sweep it up in the sparc-next tree when I get a chace. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:12:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT] Sparc Message-Id: <20120413.161210.474133806577823888.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <20120413.152455.900761231064979707.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:46:34 -0700 > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >> With special guest sparc64 assembler hacker, Paul E. McKenney. > > Oh christ. You're teaching *more* people about sparc64? > > Where will it end? :-) > That said, Looking at the patch, it looks a bit dubious. Why does the > > cmp %l1, 0 > > instruction remain, even if the conditional branch was deleted? I'm > not seeing any subsequent uses of %icc, but hey, I'm no sparc expert > (nor do I want to be). It's unnecessary but harmless, I'll sweep it up in the sparc-next tree when I get a chace.