On 12/12/2013 9:08 AM, Tom Musta wrote:

On 12/10/2013 10:57 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:54:40PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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This breaks 32-bit big-endian (as well as making the code longer and
more complex).

And in fact none of this code will get executed in little-endian mode
anyway, since we still have this in the middle of emulate_step():

	/*
	 * Following cases are for loads and stores, so bail out
	 * if we're in little-endian mode.
	 */
	if (regs->msr & MSR_LE)
		return 0;

Paul.

See patch 1/3 to explain how it becomes relevant in LE.

I will take another look at the change.

It appears that patch 1/3 never got picked up, even though I thought Ben & I
had worked through that.

And I agree that the code could be simpler.  I will work up a patch to address
these two issues.