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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2012-04-04 18:26:39 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-04-30 15:35:10 +1000
commit82087414c608440c5ca7faa5c2fb6327daebcd15 (patch)
tree156c5ae4bf4e0c2b8e27f2bc499b2248a7fe28a4 /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
parent823df43552da39fd48a2dd74949363a1c8cf62bb (diff)
powerpc: No need to preserve count register across system call
The count register is volatile so we don't need to preserve it. Store zero to the entry in the exception frame. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 7f1e6de9a5a..ba72ddbe523 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ system_call_common:
std r11,GPR11(r1)
std r11,GPR12(r1)
std r11,_XER(r1)
+ std r11,_CTR(r1)
std r9,GPR13(r1)
mfcr r9
mflr r10
@@ -90,8 +91,6 @@ system_call_common:
std r9,_CCR(r1)
std r10,_LINK(r1)
std r11,_TRAP(r1)
- mfctr r10
- std r10,_CTR(r1)
std r3,ORIG_GPR3(r1)
ld r2,PACATOC(r13)
addi r9,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD