Re: Alpha: suspicious compiler warning in entry.S

[David Howells]

Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On the assumption that it is important to include the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME bit
> one might be tempted to modify the code to:
> 
>    lda    $2, _TIF_WORK_MASK
>    and    $5, $2, $2
> 
> but this is time critical code.  I am wondering whether it might be better
> to rearrange the bits in the thread information flags so that _TIF_WORK_MASK
> has a value less than 255 and the single instruction to perform an and
> operation can be maintained.

Unless the LDA can be interleaved around some memory accesses, then yes,
compressing _TIF_WORK_MASK would be good.

David
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