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Commit e1bebbab authored by Paul Burton's avatar Paul Burton Committed by Ralf Baechle
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MIPS: wrap cfcmsa & ctcmsa accesses for toolchains with MSA support



Uses of the cfcmsa & ctcmsa instructions were not being wrapped by a
macro in the case where the toolchain supports MSA, since the arguments
exactly match a typical use of the instructions. However using current
toolchains this leads to errors such as:

  arch/mips/kernel/genex.S:437: Error: opcode not supported on this processor: mips32r2 (mips32r2) `cfcmsa $5,1'

Thus uses of the instructions must be in the context of a ".set msa"
directive, however doing that from the users of the instructions would
be messy due to the possibility that the toolchain does not support
MSA. Fix this by renaming the macros (prepending an underscore) in order
to avoid recursion when attempting to emit the instructions, and provide
implementations for the TOOLCHAIN_SUPPORTS_MSA case which ".set msa" as
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9163/


Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
parent a3a49810
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