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new-machine
+ register-banks
Memory Management
=================
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==========================================
+Notes on register bank usage in the kernel
+==========================================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+The SH-3 and SH-4 CPU families traditionally include a single partial register
+bank (selected by SR.RB, only r0 ... r7 are banked), whereas other families
+may have more full-featured banking or simply no such capabilities at all.
+
+SR.RB banking
+-------------
+
+In the case of this type of banking, banked registers are mapped directly to
+r0 ... r7 if SR.RB is set to the bank we are interested in, otherwise ldc/stc
+can still be used to reference the banked registers (as r0_bank ... r7_bank)
+when in the context of another bank. The developer must keep the SR.RB value
+in mind when writing code that utilizes these banked registers, for obvious
+reasons. Userspace is also not able to poke at the bank1 values, so these can
+be used rather effectively as scratch registers by the kernel.
+
+Presently the kernel uses several of these registers.
+
+ - r0_bank, r1_bank (referenced as k0 and k1, used for scratch
+ registers when doing exception handling).
+
+ - r2_bank (used to track the EXPEVT/INTEVT code)
+
+ - Used by do_IRQ() and friends for doing irq mapping based off
+ of the interrupt exception vector jump table offset
+
+ - r6_bank (global interrupt mask)
+
+ - The SR.IMASK interrupt handler makes use of this to set the
+ interrupt priority level (used by local_irq_enable())
+
+ - r7_bank (current)
+++ /dev/null
- Notes on register bank usage in the kernel
- ==========================================
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-The SH-3 and SH-4 CPU families traditionally include a single partial register
-bank (selected by SR.RB, only r0 ... r7 are banked), whereas other families
-may have more full-featured banking or simply no such capabilities at all.
-
-SR.RB banking
--------------
-
-In the case of this type of banking, banked registers are mapped directly to
-r0 ... r7 if SR.RB is set to the bank we are interested in, otherwise ldc/stc
-can still be used to reference the banked registers (as r0_bank ... r7_bank)
-when in the context of another bank. The developer must keep the SR.RB value
-in mind when writing code that utilizes these banked registers, for obvious
-reasons. Userspace is also not able to poke at the bank1 values, so these can
-be used rather effectively as scratch registers by the kernel.
-
-Presently the kernel uses several of these registers.
-
- - r0_bank, r1_bank (referenced as k0 and k1, used for scratch
- registers when doing exception handling).
- - r2_bank (used to track the EXPEVT/INTEVT code)
- - Used by do_IRQ() and friends for doing irq mapping based off
- of the interrupt exception vector jump table offset
- - r6_bank (global interrupt mask)
- - The SR.IMASK interrupt handler makes use of this to set the
- interrupt priority level (used by local_irq_enable())
- - r7_bank (current)
-
that are lacking this bit must have another method in place for
accomplishing what is taken care of by the banked registers.
- See <file:Documentation/sh/register-banks.txt> for further
+ See <file:Documentation/sh/register-banks.rst> for further
information on SR.RB and register banking in the kernel in general.
config CPU_HAS_PTEAEX