On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 16:12 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

Le 29/09/2015 02:00, Scott Wood a écrit :

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

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We are spending between 40 and 160 cycles with a mean of 65 cycles
in the TLB handling routines (measured with mftbl) so make it more
simple althought it adds one instruction

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
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No change in v2

  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 15 ++++-----------
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Why is this a separate patch from 1/25?

Same comments as on that patch.

Just because here there is no real need behind the simplification of the 
code, whereas the first one was a pre-requisite for the following patch.
Should I merge them together anyway ?

If there's no real need, why do it?  It's not really a major readability 
enhancement...

-Scott