Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] powerpc: use 16-bit immediate for STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER

Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] writes:

Le 19/09/2022 à 16:01, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :

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Using a 16-bit constant for this marker allows it to be loaded with
a single 'li' instruction. On 64-bit this avoids a TOC entry and a
TOC load that depends on the r2 value that has just been loaded from
the PACA.

XXX: this probably should be 64-bit change and use 2 instruction
sequence that 32-bit uses, to avoid false positives.

Yes would probably be safer ? It is only one instruction more, would 
likely be unnoticeable.

Yeah "regshere" has definitely saved me some time over the years
starting at memory dumps.

I'd settle for 0xffffffff + "regs".

cheers