Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7

From	Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7
Date	2015-10-04 02:10 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > > Ok, than we can just zero out r5 for example and use it in tlbie as RS,
> > > right?
> > 
> > That won't assemble _unless_ your assembler is in POWER7 mode.  It also
> > won't do the right thing at run time on older machines.
> 
> Correct, getting this to work on both pre-power7 and power7 and later
> is tricky.  One really horrible hack would be to do:
> 
>   li r0,0
>   tlbie r4,0
> 
> On pre-power7, the "0" will be taken as a zero L operand and on
> power7 and later, it'll be r0, but with a zero value we loaded in
> the insn before.  I know, really ugly. :-)

Hide the "li 0,0" somewhere earlier, and write it as "tlbie 4,0", and
don't write a comment -- we *like* tricky!

It should really be a separate macro define for power7 and 4xx etc.;
and the macro should not be called "tlbia", but something that makes
it obvious at the usage sites that it is in fact a macro; and why a
macro anyway, a function call might be better here?


Segher
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Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2015-10-02 17:50 +0200
  Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org> - 2015-10-02 21:10 +0200
    Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-02 22:20 +0200
      Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org> - 2015-10-02 23:40 +0200
        Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> - 2015-10-03 00:10 +0200
          Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2015-10-03 00:20 +0200
          Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-03 04:30 +0200
            Re: Missing operand for tlbie instruction on Power7 Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> - 2015-10-04 02:10 +0200

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