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MIPS: Avoid potential hazard on Context register

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set_saved_sp reads Context register. Avoid reading stale value from
earlier incomplete write.

Issue found and fixed for head.S by Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>.

Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle
2009-10-13 23:23:28 +02:00
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@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ NESTED(kernel_entry, 16, sp) # kernel entry point
/* Set the SP after an empty pt_regs. */
PTR_LI sp, _THREAD_SIZE - 32 - PT_SIZE
PTR_ADDU sp, $28
back_to_back_c0_hazard
set_saved_sp sp, t0, t1
PTR_SUBU sp, 4 * SZREG # init stack pointer