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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Consolidate idle loop / WAIT instruction support in a single file.</title>
<updated>2013-05-21T23:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-21T08:53:37+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2013-05-10T14:48:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-10T14:48:05+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 - More work on DT support for various platforms

 - Various fixes that were to late to make it straight into 3.9

 - Improved platform support, in particular the Netlogic XLR and
   BCM63xx, and the SEAD3 and Malta eval boards.

 - Support for several Ralink SOC families.

 - Complete support for the microMIPS ASE which basically reencodes the
   existing MIPS32/MIPS64 ISA to use non-constant size instructions.

 - Some fallout from LTO work which remove old cruft and will generally
   make the MIPS kernel easier to maintain and resistant to compiler
   optimization, even in absence of LTO.

 - KVM support.  While MIPS has announced hardware virtualization
   extensions this KVM extension uses trap and emulate mode for
   virtualization of MIPS32.  More KVM work to add support for VZ
   hardware virtualizaiton extensions and MIPS64 will probably already
   be merged for 3.11.

Most of this has been sitting in -next for a long time.  All defconfigs
have been build or run time tested except three for which fixes are being
sent by other maintainers.

Semantic conflict with kvm updates done as per Ralf

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (118 commits)
  MIPS: Add new GIC clockevent driver.
  MIPS: Formatting clean-ups for clocksources.
  MIPS: Refactor GIC clocksource code.
  MIPS: Move 'gic_frequency' to common location.
  MIPS: Move 'gic_present' to common location.
  MIPS: MIPS16e: Add unaligned access support.
  MIPS: MIPS16e: Support handling of delay slots.
  MIPS: MIPS16e: Add instruction formats.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strnlen' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strlen' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strncpy' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'memset' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add configuration option for microMIPS kernel.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Disable LL/SC and fix linker bug.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add vdso support.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Support handling of delay slots.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add support for exception handling.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Floating point support.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix macro naming in micro-assembler.
  ...
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 - More work on DT support for various platforms

 - Various fixes that were to late to make it straight into 3.9

 - Improved platform support, in particular the Netlogic XLR and
   BCM63xx, and the SEAD3 and Malta eval boards.

 - Support for several Ralink SOC families.

 - Complete support for the microMIPS ASE which basically reencodes the
   existing MIPS32/MIPS64 ISA to use non-constant size instructions.

 - Some fallout from LTO work which remove old cruft and will generally
   make the MIPS kernel easier to maintain and resistant to compiler
   optimization, even in absence of LTO.

 - KVM support.  While MIPS has announced hardware virtualization
   extensions this KVM extension uses trap and emulate mode for
   virtualization of MIPS32.  More KVM work to add support for VZ
   hardware virtualizaiton extensions and MIPS64 will probably already
   be merged for 3.11.

Most of this has been sitting in -next for a long time.  All defconfigs
have been build or run time tested except three for which fixes are being
sent by other maintainers.

Semantic conflict with kvm updates done as per Ralf

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (118 commits)
  MIPS: Add new GIC clockevent driver.
  MIPS: Formatting clean-ups for clocksources.
  MIPS: Refactor GIC clocksource code.
  MIPS: Move 'gic_frequency' to common location.
  MIPS: Move 'gic_present' to common location.
  MIPS: MIPS16e: Add unaligned access support.
  MIPS: MIPS16e: Support handling of delay slots.
  MIPS: MIPS16e: Add instruction formats.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strnlen' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strlen' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strncpy' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'memset' core library function.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add configuration option for microMIPS kernel.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Disable LL/SC and fix linker bug.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add vdso support.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Support handling of delay slots.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Add support for exception handling.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Floating point support.
  MIPS: microMIPS: Fix macro naming in micro-assembler.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'mti-next' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/sjhill/linux-sjhill into mips-for-linux-next</title>
<updated>2013-05-09T15:57:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-09T15:57:30+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add new GIC clockevent driver.</title>
<updated>2013-05-09T15:55:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Raghu Gandham</name>
<email>Raghu.Gandham@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T21:30:12+00:00</published>
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Add new clockevent driver that uses the counter present on the MIPS
Global Interrupt Controller.

Signed-off-by: Raghu Gandham &lt;Raghu.Gandham@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
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Add new clockevent driver that uses the counter present on the MIPS
Global Interrupt Controller.

Signed-off-by: Raghu Gandham &lt;Raghu.Gandham@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Refactor GIC clocksource code.</title>
<updated>2013-05-09T15:55:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven J. Hill</name>
<email>Steven.Hill@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T21:28:36+00:00</published>
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Reorganize some of the GIC clocksource driver code. Below is a list of
the various changes.

  * No longer select CSRC_GIC by default for Malta platform.
  * Limit choice for either the GIC or R4K clocksource, not both.
  * Change location in Makefile.
  * Created new 'gic_read_count' function in common 'irq-gic.c' file.
  * Change 'git_hpt_read' function in 'csrc-gic.c' to use new function.
  * Surround GIC specific code in Malta platform code with #ifdef's.
  * Only initialize the GIC clocksource if it was selected. Original
    code called it unconditionally if a GIC was found.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
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Reorganize some of the GIC clocksource driver code. Below is a list of
the various changes.

  * No longer select CSRC_GIC by default for Malta platform.
  * Limit choice for either the GIC or R4K clocksource, not both.
  * Change location in Makefile.
  * Created new 'gic_read_count' function in common 'irq-gic.c' file.
  * Change 'git_hpt_read' function in 'csrc-gic.c' to use new function.
  * Surround GIC specific code in Malta platform code with #ifdef's.
  * Only initialize the GIC clocksource if it was selected. Original
    code called it unconditionally if a GIC was found.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: move mips_{set,get}_machine_name() to a more generic place</title>
<updated>2013-05-07T23:19:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Crispin</name>
<email>blogic@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-11T05:34:59+00:00</published>
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Previously this functionality was only available to users of the mips_machine
api. Moving the code to prom.c allows us to also add a OF wrapper.

Signed-off-by: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5164/
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Previously this functionality was only available to users of the mips_machine
api. Moving the code to prom.c allows us to also add a OF wrapper.

Signed-off-by: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5164/
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'</title>
<updated>2013-04-28T00:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-28T00:10:46+00:00</published>
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* pm-cpufreq: (57 commits)
  cpufreq: MAINTAINERS: Add co-maintainer
  cpufreq: pxa2xx: initialize variables
  ARM: S5pv210: compiling issue, ARM_S5PV210_CPUFREQ needs CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
  cpufreq: cpu0: Put cpu parent node after using it
  cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: Adapt to latest cpufreq updates
  cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: put DT nodes after using them
  cpufreq: Don't call __cpufreq_governor() for drivers without target()
  cpufreq: exynos5440: Protect OPP search calls with RCU lock
  cpufreq: dbx500: Round to closest available freq
  cpufreq: Call __cpufreq_governor() with correct policy-&gt;cpus mask
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Optimize intel_pstate_set_policy
  cpufreq: OMAP: instantiate omap-cpufreq as a platform_driver
  arm: exynos: Enable OPP library support for exynos5440
  cpufreq: exynos: Remove error return even if no soc is found
  cpufreq: exynos: Add cpufreq driver for exynos5440
  cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for ondemand governor
  cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target handler to be registered
  cpufreq: convert cpufreq_driver to using RCU
  cpufreq: powerpc/platforms/cell: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq
  cpufreq: sparc: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq
  ...

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS (with commit a8e39c3 from pm-cpuidle)
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h (with commit beb0ff3)
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* pm-cpufreq: (57 commits)
  cpufreq: MAINTAINERS: Add co-maintainer
  cpufreq: pxa2xx: initialize variables
  ARM: S5pv210: compiling issue, ARM_S5PV210_CPUFREQ needs CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
  cpufreq: cpu0: Put cpu parent node after using it
  cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: Adapt to latest cpufreq updates
  cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: put DT nodes after using them
  cpufreq: Don't call __cpufreq_governor() for drivers without target()
  cpufreq: exynos5440: Protect OPP search calls with RCU lock
  cpufreq: dbx500: Round to closest available freq
  cpufreq: Call __cpufreq_governor() with correct policy-&gt;cpus mask
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Optimize intel_pstate_set_policy
  cpufreq: OMAP: instantiate omap-cpufreq as a platform_driver
  arm: exynos: Enable OPP library support for exynos5440
  cpufreq: exynos: Remove error return even if no soc is found
  cpufreq: exynos: Add cpufreq driver for exynos5440
  cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for ondemand governor
  cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target handler to be registered
  cpufreq: convert cpufreq_driver to using RCU
  cpufreq: powerpc/platforms/cell: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq
  cpufreq: sparc: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq
  ...

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS (with commit a8e39c3 from pm-cpuidle)
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h (with commit beb0ff3)
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: mips: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T11:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-04T12:54:21+00:00</published>
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This patch moves cpufreq driver of MIPS architecture to drivers/cpufreq.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This patch moves cpufreq driver of MIPS architecture to drivers/cpufreq.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix code generation for non-DSP capable CPUs</title>
<updated>2013-03-19T18:15:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>florian@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-18T15:56:10+00:00</published>
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Commit 32a7ede (MIPS: dsp: Add assembler support for DSP ASEs) has
enabled the use of DSP ASE specific instructions such as rddsp and wrdsp
under the idea that all code path that will make use of these two
instructions are properly checking for cpu_has_dsp to ensure that the
particular CPU we are running on *actually* supports DSP ASE.

This commit actually causes the following oops on QEMU Malta emulating a
MIPS 24Kc without the DSP ASE implemented:

[    7.960000] Reserved instruction in kernel
[    7.960000] Cpu 0
[    7.960000] $ 0   : 00000000 00000000 00000014 00000005
[    7.960000] $ 4   : 8fc2de48 00000001 00000000 8f59ddb0
[    7.960000] $ 8   : 8f5ceec4 00000018 00000c00 00800000
[    7.960000] $12   : 00000100 00000200 00000000 00457b84
[    7.960000] $16   : 00000000 8fc2ba78 8f4ec980 00000001
[    7.960000] $20   : 80418f90 00000000 00000000 000002dd
[    7.960000] $24   : 0000009c 7730d7b8
[    7.960000] $28   : 8f59c000 8f59dd38 00000001 80104248
[    7.960000] Hi    : 0000001d
[    7.960000] Lo    : 0000000b
[    7.960000] epc   : 801041ec thread_saved_pc+0x2c/0x38
[    7.960000]     Not tainted
[    7.960000] ra    : 80104248 get_wchan+0x48/0xac
[    7.960000] Status: 1000b703    KERNEL EXL IE
[    7.960000] Cause : 10800028
[    7.960000] PrId  : 00019300 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    7.960000] Modules linked in:
[    7.960000] Process killall (pid: 1574, threadinfo=8f59c000,
task=8fd14558, tls=773aa440)
[    7.960000] Stack : 8fc2ba78 8012b008 0000000c 0000001d 00000000
00000000 8f58a380
                  8f58a380 8fc2ba78 80202668 8f59de78 8f468600 8f59de28
801b2a3c 8f59df00 8f98ba20 74696e69
                  8f468600 8f59de28 801b7308 0081c007 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
                  00000000 8fc2bbb4 00000001 0000001d 0000000b 77f038cc
7fe80648 ffffffff ffffffff 00000000
                  00000001 0016e000 00000000 ...
[    7.960000] Call Trace:
[    7.960000] [&lt;801041ec&gt;] thread_saved_pc+0x2c/0x38
[    7.960000] [&lt;80104248&gt;] get_wchan+0x48/0xac

The disassembly of thread_saved_pc points to the following:
000006d0 &lt;thread_saved_pc&gt;:
 6d0:   8c820208        lw      v0,520(a0)
 6d4:   3c030000        lui     v1,0x0
 6d8:   24630000        addiu   v1,v1,0
 6dc:   10430008        beq     v0,v1,700 &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x30&gt;
 6e0:   00000000        nop
 6e4:   3c020000        lui     v0,0x0
 6e8:   8c43000c        lw      v1,12(v0)
 6ec:   04620004        bltzl   v1,700 &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x30&gt;
 6f0:   00001021        move    v0,zero
 6f4:   8c840200        lw      a0,512(a0)
 6f8:   00031080        sll     v0,v1,0x2
 6fc:   7c44100a        lwx     v0,a0(v0)   &lt;------------
 700:   03e00008        jr      ra
 704:   00000000        nop

If we specifically disable -mdsp/-mdspr2 for arch/mips/kernel/process.o,
we get the following (non-crashing) assembly:

00000708 &lt;thread_saved_pc&gt;:
 708:   8c820208        lw      v0,520(a0)
 70c:   3c030000        lui     v1,0x0
 710:   24630000        addiu   v1,v1,0
 714:   10430009        beq     v0,v1,73c &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x34&gt;
 718:   00000000        nop
 71c:   3c020000        lui     v0,0x0
 720:   8c42000c        lw      v0,12(v0)
 724:   04420005        bltzl   v0,73c &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x34&gt;
 728:   00001021        move    v0,zero
 72c:   8c830200        lw      v1,512(a0)
 730:   00021080        sll     v0,v0,0x2
 734:   00431021        addu    v0,v0,v1
 738:   8c420000        lw      v0,0(v0)
 73c:   03e00008        jr      ra
 740:   00000000        nop

The specific line that leads a different assembly being produced is:

unsigned long thread_saved_pc(struct task_struct *tsk)
...
	return ((unsigned long *)t-&gt;reg29)[schedule_mfi.pc_offset]; &lt;---

The problem here is that the compiler was given the right to use DSP
instructions with the -mdsp / -mdspr2 command-line switches and
performed some optimization for us and used DSP ASE instructions where
we are not checking that the running CPU actually supports DSP ASE.

This patch fixes the issue by partially reverting commit 32a7ede for
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile in order to remove the -mdsp / -mdspr2
compiler command-line switches such that we are now guaranteed that the
compiler will not optimize using DSP ASE reserved instructions. We also
need to fixup the rddsp/wrdsp and m{t,h}{hi,lo}{0,1,2,3} macros in
arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h to tell the assembler that we are going
to explicitely use DSP ASE reserved instructions. The comment in
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile is also updated to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian@openwrt.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Commit 32a7ede (MIPS: dsp: Add assembler support for DSP ASEs) has
enabled the use of DSP ASE specific instructions such as rddsp and wrdsp
under the idea that all code path that will make use of these two
instructions are properly checking for cpu_has_dsp to ensure that the
particular CPU we are running on *actually* supports DSP ASE.

This commit actually causes the following oops on QEMU Malta emulating a
MIPS 24Kc without the DSP ASE implemented:

[    7.960000] Reserved instruction in kernel
[    7.960000] Cpu 0
[    7.960000] $ 0   : 00000000 00000000 00000014 00000005
[    7.960000] $ 4   : 8fc2de48 00000001 00000000 8f59ddb0
[    7.960000] $ 8   : 8f5ceec4 00000018 00000c00 00800000
[    7.960000] $12   : 00000100 00000200 00000000 00457b84
[    7.960000] $16   : 00000000 8fc2ba78 8f4ec980 00000001
[    7.960000] $20   : 80418f90 00000000 00000000 000002dd
[    7.960000] $24   : 0000009c 7730d7b8
[    7.960000] $28   : 8f59c000 8f59dd38 00000001 80104248
[    7.960000] Hi    : 0000001d
[    7.960000] Lo    : 0000000b
[    7.960000] epc   : 801041ec thread_saved_pc+0x2c/0x38
[    7.960000]     Not tainted
[    7.960000] ra    : 80104248 get_wchan+0x48/0xac
[    7.960000] Status: 1000b703    KERNEL EXL IE
[    7.960000] Cause : 10800028
[    7.960000] PrId  : 00019300 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    7.960000] Modules linked in:
[    7.960000] Process killall (pid: 1574, threadinfo=8f59c000,
task=8fd14558, tls=773aa440)
[    7.960000] Stack : 8fc2ba78 8012b008 0000000c 0000001d 00000000
00000000 8f58a380
                  8f58a380 8fc2ba78 80202668 8f59de78 8f468600 8f59de28
801b2a3c 8f59df00 8f98ba20 74696e69
                  8f468600 8f59de28 801b7308 0081c007 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
                  00000000 8fc2bbb4 00000001 0000001d 0000000b 77f038cc
7fe80648 ffffffff ffffffff 00000000
                  00000001 0016e000 00000000 ...
[    7.960000] Call Trace:
[    7.960000] [&lt;801041ec&gt;] thread_saved_pc+0x2c/0x38
[    7.960000] [&lt;80104248&gt;] get_wchan+0x48/0xac

The disassembly of thread_saved_pc points to the following:
000006d0 &lt;thread_saved_pc&gt;:
 6d0:   8c820208        lw      v0,520(a0)
 6d4:   3c030000        lui     v1,0x0
 6d8:   24630000        addiu   v1,v1,0
 6dc:   10430008        beq     v0,v1,700 &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x30&gt;
 6e0:   00000000        nop
 6e4:   3c020000        lui     v0,0x0
 6e8:   8c43000c        lw      v1,12(v0)
 6ec:   04620004        bltzl   v1,700 &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x30&gt;
 6f0:   00001021        move    v0,zero
 6f4:   8c840200        lw      a0,512(a0)
 6f8:   00031080        sll     v0,v1,0x2
 6fc:   7c44100a        lwx     v0,a0(v0)   &lt;------------
 700:   03e00008        jr      ra
 704:   00000000        nop

If we specifically disable -mdsp/-mdspr2 for arch/mips/kernel/process.o,
we get the following (non-crashing) assembly:

00000708 &lt;thread_saved_pc&gt;:
 708:   8c820208        lw      v0,520(a0)
 70c:   3c030000        lui     v1,0x0
 710:   24630000        addiu   v1,v1,0
 714:   10430009        beq     v0,v1,73c &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x34&gt;
 718:   00000000        nop
 71c:   3c020000        lui     v0,0x0
 720:   8c42000c        lw      v0,12(v0)
 724:   04420005        bltzl   v0,73c &lt;thread_saved_pc+0x34&gt;
 728:   00001021        move    v0,zero
 72c:   8c830200        lw      v1,512(a0)
 730:   00021080        sll     v0,v0,0x2
 734:   00431021        addu    v0,v0,v1
 738:   8c420000        lw      v0,0(v0)
 73c:   03e00008        jr      ra
 740:   00000000        nop

The specific line that leads a different assembly being produced is:

unsigned long thread_saved_pc(struct task_struct *tsk)
...
	return ((unsigned long *)t-&gt;reg29)[schedule_mfi.pc_offset]; &lt;---

The problem here is that the compiler was given the right to use DSP
instructions with the -mdsp / -mdspr2 command-line switches and
performed some optimization for us and used DSP ASE instructions where
we are not checking that the running CPU actually supports DSP ASE.

This patch fixes the issue by partially reverting commit 32a7ede for
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile in order to remove the -mdsp / -mdspr2
compiler command-line switches such that we are now guaranteed that the
compiler will not optimize using DSP ASE reserved instructions. We also
need to fixup the rddsp/wrdsp and m{t,h}{hi,lo}{0,1,2,3} macros in
arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h to tell the assembler that we are going
to explicitely use DSP ASE reserved instructions. The comment in
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile is also updated to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian@openwrt.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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