Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: Fix dubious r0 usage

Alan Modra [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:08:53PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

quoted

Bleeding edge binutils no longer accepts r0 in places where the CPU
interprets the value as a literal 0.

Wow!  That was quite some cleanup.  I think I'd better turn the error
into a warning..

That would be my preference :)

If it remains a hard error we'll need to backport this patch to multiple
stable versions so that people can build those older kernels with new
binutils. Which we can do, but it's a bit of a pain.

quoted

--- a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline.S

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ master:
 	mr	%r16,%r3	/* save dt address in reg16 */
 	li	%r4,20
 	LWZX_BE	%r6,%r3,%r4	/* fetch __be32 version number at byte 20 */
-	cmpwi	%r0,%r6,2	/* v2 or later? */
+	cmpwi	0,%r6,2		/* v2 or later? */
 	blt	1f
 	li	%r4,28
 	STWX_BE	%r17,%r3,%r4	/* Store my cpu as __be32 at byte 28 */

With this one, it would probably be better to omit the zero (BF
field).

Yeah good point, thanks for reviewing.

cheers