Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2014-06-03
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[PATCH] ARM: decompressor: a minor optimization

From: Dave.Martin@arm.com (Dave Martin)
Date: 2014-06-02 10:25:16

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:30:33PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
"ldr sp, [r0, #28]" can be squashed into the previous ldm instruction.
See commit 77754410fb8ecd7cf307bcd75d60f3b22b8c3cd2
ARM: 6286/1: fix Thumb-2 decompressor broken by "Auto calculate ZRELADDR"

Loading sp with LDMIA is not allowed in Thumb.  For simpler code
maintenance, the code was just made Thumb-compatible anyway by splitting
out the sp load while fixing another issue.  This isn't part of a core
loop, so shouldn't have a significant impact on performance.

git blame can be useful for finding out how an odd-looking piece of code
came into existence.  Sometimes you have to dig through a few patches to
find the answer.

Cheers
---Dave
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index 066b034..8c392c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ not_angel:
 		blcs	cache_on
 
 restart:	adr	r0, LC0
-		ldmia	r0, {r1, r2, r3, r6, r10, r11, r12}
-		ldr	sp, [r0, #28]
+		ldmia	r0, {r1, r2, r3, r6, r10, r11, r12, sp}
 
 		/*
 		 * We might be running at a different address.  We need
-- 
1.9.1


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