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authorPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>2018-08-07 10:15:04 -0700
committerPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>2018-08-07 10:33:45 -0700
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MIPS: Use dins to simplify __write_64bit_c0_split()
The code in __write_64bit_c0_split() is used by MIPS32 kernels running on MIPS64 CPUs to write a 64-bit value to a 64-bit coprocessor 0 register using a single 64-bit dmtc0 instruction. It does this by combining the 2x 32-bit registers used to hold the 64-bit value into a single register, which in the existing code involves three steps: 1) Zero extend register A which holds bits 31:0 of our data, since it may have previously held a sign-extended value. 2) Shift register B which holds bits 63:32 of our data in bits 31:0 left by 32 bits, such that the bits forming our data are in the position they'll be in the final 64-bit value & bits 31:0 of the register are zero. 3) Or the two registers together to form the 64-bit value in one 64-bit register. From MIPS r2 onwards we have a dins instruction which can effectively perform all 3 of those steps using a single instruction. Add a path for MIPS r2 & beyond which uses dins to take bits 31:0 from register B & insert them into bits 63:32 of register A, giving us our full 64-bit value in register A with one instruction. Since we know that MIPS r2 & above support the sel field for the dmtc0 instruction, we don't bother special casing sel==0. Omiting the sel field would assemble to exactly the same instruction as when we explicitly specify that it equals zero. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
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