uasm_in_compat_space_p() determines whether the given value is in the
32-bit compatibility part of the 64-bit address space, i.e. is in 32-bit
sign-extended form, however it only handles the top half of the value
space (corresponding to the kernel compatibility segments in the upper
half of the address space). Since values < 2^31 (corresponding to the
low 2GiB of the address space) can also be handled using 32-bit
instructions (e.g. a LUI and ADDIU) rather than convoluted 64-bit
immediate generation, rewrite it with a cast to check whether the
address matches its 32-bit sign extended form.
This allows UASM_i_LA to be used to generate arbitrary 32-bit immediates
more efficiently on 64-bit CPUs, i.e. more like the li (load immediate)
pseudo-instruction.
For example this code to load the immediate (ST0_EXL | KSU_USER |
ST0_BEV | ST0_KX) into k0 with UASM_i_LA():
lui k0,0x0
dsll k0,k0,0x10
daddiu k0,k0,64
dsll k0,k0,0x10
daddiu k0,k0,146
Changes to this more efficient version:
lui k0,0x40
addiu k0,k0,146
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13778/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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