This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    MIPS: asm: asmmacro: Replace "add" instructions with "addu"

to the 3.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mips-asm-asmmacro-replace-add-instructions-with-addu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 98a833c1fa4de0695830f77b2d13fd86693da298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:17:52 +0000
Subject: MIPS: asm: asmmacro: Replace "add" instructions with "addu"

From: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>

commit 98a833c1fa4de0695830f77b2d13fd86693da298 upstream.

The "add" instruction is actually a macro in binutils and depending on
the size of the immediate it can expand to an "addi" instruction.
However, the "addi" instruction traps on overflows which is not
something we want on address calculation.

Link: http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2015-01/msg00121.html
Cc: Paul Burton <[email protected]>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/asmmacro.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/asmmacro.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/asmmacro.h
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@
        .set    push
        .set    noat
        SET_HARDFLOAT
-       add     $1, \base, \off
+       addu    $1, \base, \off
        .word   LDD_MSA_INSN | (\wd << 6)
        .set    pop
        .endm
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
        .set    push
        .set    noat
        SET_HARDFLOAT
-       add     $1, \base, \off
+       addu    $1, \base, \off
        .word   STD_MSA_INSN | (\wd << 6)
        .set    pop
        .endm


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.19/mips-kernel-cps-vec-replace-addi-with-addiu.patch
queue-3.19/kvm-mips-disable-htw-while-in-guest.patch
queue-3.19/mips-asm-pgtable-prevent-htw-race-when-updating-ptes.patch
queue-3.19/mips-asm-pgtable-add-c0-hazards-on-htw-start-stop-sequences.patch
queue-3.19/mips-asm-asmmacro-replace-add-instructions-with-addu.patch
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