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    powerpc: Redefine TIF_32BITS thread flag · 16d7c69c
    Breno Leitao authored
    Moving TIF_32BIT to use bit 20 instead of 4 in the task flag field.
    
    This change is making room for an upcoming new task macro
    (_TIF_SYSCALL_EMU) which is preferred to set a bit in the lower 16-bits
    part of the word.
    
    This upcoming flag macro will take part in a composed macro
    (_TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE) which will contain other flags as well, and it is
    preferred that the whole _TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE macro only sets the lower 16
    bits of a word, so, it could be handled using immediate operations (as load
    immediate, add immediate, ...) where the immediate operand (SI) is limited
    to 16-bits.
    
    Another possible solution would be using the LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() macro
    to load a full 64-bits word immediate, but it takes 5 operations instead of
    one.
    
    Having TIF_32BITS being redefined to use an upper bit is not a problem
    since there is only one place in the assembly code where TIF_32BIT is being
    used, and it could be replaced with an operation with right shift (addis),
    since it is used alone, i.e. not being part of a composed macro, which has
    different bits set, and would require LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE().
    
    Tested on a 64 bits Big Endian machine running a 32 bits task.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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