Re: [GIT] Sparc

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 13 2012 - 15:47:00 EST


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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).

Linus
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