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authorHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>2013-06-29 15:24:16 +0400
committerHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>2013-07-10 00:09:19 +0400
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parisc: document the shadow registers
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10
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TOC enable bit 1
=========================================================================
+
+The PA-RISC architecture defines 7 registers as "shadow registers".
+Those are used in RETURN FROM INTERRUPTION AND RESTORE instruction to reduce
+the state save and restore time by eliminating the need for general register
+(GR) saves and restores in interruption handlers.
+Shadow registers are the GRs 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 24, and 25.
+
+=========================================================================
Register usage notes, originally from John Marvin, with some additional
notes from Randolph Chung.