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<title>MIPS/head: Store ELF appended dtb in a global variable too</title>
<updated>2018-09-25T23:27:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yasha Cherikovsky</name>
<email>yasha.che3@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-25T18:08:23+00:00</published>
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Since commit 15f37e158892 ("MIPS: store the appended
dtb address in a variable"),
in kernels with MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB=y, the early boot code detects
the dtb and stores it in the 'fw_passed_dtb' variable.

However, the dtb is not stored in 'fw_passed_dtb' in kernels with
MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB=y.

Under MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB=y, the dtb is also located in the
__appended_dtb section, so we just need to update the #ifdef.

This will allow to access the dtb in a more uniform way.

Fixes: 15f37e158892 ("MIPS: store the appended dtb address in a variable")
Signed-off-by: Yasha Cherikovsky &lt;yasha.che3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20803/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Since commit 15f37e158892 ("MIPS: store the appended
dtb address in a variable"),
in kernels with MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB=y, the early boot code detects
the dtb and stores it in the 'fw_passed_dtb' variable.

However, the dtb is not stored in 'fw_passed_dtb' in kernels with
MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB=y.

Under MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB=y, the dtb is also located in the
__appended_dtb section, so we just need to update the #ifdef.

This will allow to access the dtb in a more uniform way.

Fixes: 15f37e158892 ("MIPS: store the appended dtb address in a variable")
Signed-off-by: Yasha Cherikovsky &lt;yasha.che3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20803/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS/head: Add comments after #endif and #else</title>
<updated>2018-09-25T23:27:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yasha Cherikovsky</name>
<email>yasha.che3@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-25T18:08:22+00:00</published>
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It makes the code more readable, especially in the nested ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Yasha Cherikovsky &lt;yasha.che3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20802/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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It makes the code more readable, especially in the nested ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Yasha Cherikovsky &lt;yasha.che3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20802/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: head: Reorder instructions missing a delay slot</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T21:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karl Beldan</name>
<email>karl.beldan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-27T19:22:16+00:00</published>
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In this sequence the 'move' is assumed in the delay slot of the 'beq',
but head.S is in reorder mode and the former gets pushed one 'nop'
farther by the assembler.

The corrected behavior made booting with an UHI supplied dtb erratic.

Fixes: 15f37e158892 ("MIPS: store the appended dtb address in a variable")
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan &lt;karl.beldan+oss@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16614/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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In this sequence the 'move' is assumed in the delay slot of the 'beq',
but head.S is in reorder mode and the former gets pushed one 'nop'
farther by the assembler.

The corrected behavior made booting with an UHI supplied dtb erratic.

Fixes: 15f37e158892 ("MIPS: store the appended dtb address in a variable")
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan &lt;karl.beldan+oss@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16614/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: store the appended dtb address in a variable</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T12:00:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Gorski</name>
<email>jogo@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T09:27:37+00:00</published>
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Instead of rewriting the arguments to match the UHI spec, store the
address of a appended or UHI supplied dtb in fw_supplied_dtb.

That way the original bootloader arugments are kept intact while still
making the use of an appended dtb invisible for mach code.

Mach code can still find out if it is an appended dtb by comparing
fw_arg1 with fw_supplied_dtb.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Alban Bedel &lt;albeu@free.fr&gt;
Cc: Daniel Gimpelevich &lt;daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us&gt;
Cc: Antony Pavlov &lt;antonynpavlov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13699/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Instead of rewriting the arguments to match the UHI spec, store the
address of a appended or UHI supplied dtb in fw_supplied_dtb.

That way the original bootloader arugments are kept intact while still
making the use of an appended dtb invisible for mach code.

Mach code can still find out if it is an appended dtb by comparing
fw_arg1 with fw_supplied_dtb.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Alban Bedel &lt;albeu@free.fr&gt;
Cc: Daniel Gimpelevich &lt;daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us&gt;
Cc: Antony Pavlov &lt;antonynpavlov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13699/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove redundant asm/pgtable-bits.h inclusions</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T13:30:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-19T08:25:01+00:00</published>
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asm/pgtable-bits.h is included in 2 assembly files and thus has to
ifdef around C code, however nothing defined by the header is used
in either of the assembly files that include it.

Remove the redundant inclusions such that asm/pgtable-bits.h doesn't
need to #ifdef around C code, for cleanliness and in preparation for
later patches which will add more C.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13114/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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asm/pgtable-bits.h is included in 2 assembly files and thus has to
ifdef around C code, however nothing defined by the header is used
in either of the assembly files that include it.

Remove the redundant inclusions such that asm/pgtable-bits.h doesn't
need to #ifdef around C code, for cleanliness and in preparation for
later patches which will add more C.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13114/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Call relocate_kernel if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T12:02:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-31T09:05:37+00:00</published>
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If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled, call relocate_kernel.

This function will return the entry point of the relocated kernel if
copy/relocate is sucessful or the original entry point if not. The stack
pointer must then be pointed into the new image.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12984/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled, call relocate_kernel.

This function will return the entry point of the relocated kernel if
copy/relocate is sucessful or the original entry point if not. The stack
pointer must then be pointed into the new image.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12984/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add support for vmlinux.bin appended dtb</title>
<updated>2015-06-21T19:54:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Gorski</name>
<email>jogo@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-12T10:24:58+00:00</published>
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Add support for detecting a vmlinux.bin appended dtb and overriding
the boot arguments to match the UHI interface.

Due to the PERCPU section being empty for !SMP, but still modifying
the current address by aligning it to the page size, do not define
it for !SMP builds to allow __appended_dtb to still point to
the actual end of the data.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Bresticker &lt;abrestic@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck &lt;daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: James Hartley &lt;James.Hartley@imgtec.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9739/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Add support for detecting a vmlinux.bin appended dtb and overriding
the boot arguments to match the UHI interface.

Due to the PERCPU section being empty for !SMP, but still modifying
the current address by aligning it to the page size, do not define
it for !SMP builds to allow __appended_dtb to still point to
the actual end of the data.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski &lt;jogo@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Bresticker &lt;abrestic@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck &lt;daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: James Hartley &lt;James.Hartley@imgtec.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9739/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: MT: Remove SMTC support</title>
<updated>2014-05-23T22:07:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-23T14:29:44+00:00</published>
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Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell &lt;kevink@paralogos.com&gt; is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.

Based on Markos Chandras &lt;Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com&gt; patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell &lt;kevink@paralogos.com&gt; is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.

Based on Markos Chandras &lt;Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com&gt; patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: malta: Add support for SMP EVA</title>
<updated>2014-03-26T22:09:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-21T09:52:23+00:00</published>
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Allow secondary cores to program their segment control registers
during smp bootstrap code. This enables EVA on Malta SMP
configurations

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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Allow secondary cores to program their segment control registers
during smp bootstrap code. This enables EVA on Malta SMP
configurations

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Delete __cpuinit/__CPUINIT usage from MIPS code</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T13:38:59+00:00</published>
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commit 3747069b25e419f6b51395f48127e9812abc3596 upstream.

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
and are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get
rid of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

Here, we remove all the MIPS __cpuinit from C code and __CPUINIT
from asm files.  MIPS is interesting in this respect, because there
are also uasm users hiding behind their own renamed versions of the
__cpuinit macros.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in Paul's followup fix.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5494/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5495/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5509/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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commit 3747069b25e419f6b51395f48127e9812abc3596 upstream.

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
and are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get
rid of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

Here, we remove all the MIPS __cpuinit from C code and __CPUINIT
from asm files.  MIPS is interesting in this respect, because there
are also uasm users hiding behind their own renamed versions of the
__cpuinit macros.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in Paul's followup fix.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5494/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5495/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5509/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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