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Re: [PATCH v3] MIPS: tidy up FPU context switching

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From	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH v3] MIPS: tidy up FPU context switching
Date	Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:10:02 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:49:30AM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:

> Rather than saving the scalar FP or vector context in the assembly
> resume function, reuse the existing C code we have in fpu.h to do
> exactly that. This reduces duplication, results in a much easier to read
> resume function & should allow the compiler to optimise out more MSA
> code due to is_msa_enabled()/cpu_has_msa being known-zero at compile
> time for kernels without MSA support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>

Thanks, applied.

  Ralf
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[PATCH v3] MIPS: tidy up FPU context switching Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-03 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3] MIPS: tidy up FPU context switching Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> - 2015-08-03 18:10 +0200

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