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    powerpc: Remove use of a second scratch SPRG in STAB code · c5a8c0c9
    Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
    The STAB code used on Power3 and RS/64 uses a second scratch SPRG to
    save a GPR in order to decide whether to go to do_stab_bolted_* or
    to handle a normal data access exception.
    
    This prevents our scheme of freeing SPRG3 which is user visible for
    user uses since we cannot use SPRG0 which, on RS/64, seems to be
    read-only for supervisor mode (like POWER4).
    
    This reworks the STAB exception entry to use the PACA as temporary
    storage instead.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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