Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:12:10 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [GIT] Sparc | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:46:34 -0700
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> >> With special guest sparc64 assembler hacker, Paul E. McKenney. > > Oh christ. You're teaching *more* people about sparc64? > > Where will it end?
:-)
> That said, Looking at the patch, it looks a bit dubious. Why does the > > cmp %l1, 0 > > instruction remain, even if the conditional branch was deleted? I'm > not seeing any subsequent uses of %icc, but hey, I'm no sparc expert > (nor do I want to be).
It's unnecessary but harmless, I'll sweep it up in the sparc-next tree when I get a chace.
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