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This open-coded nop as mov r0, r0 is a development history artifact. First commitb11fe38883("ARM: 6663/1: make Thumb2 kernel entry point more similar to the ARM one") moved the code around so that the nops would come before the conditional thumb instructions, as it turned out that some boot loaders were patching the initial nop instructions in the kernel. At this point it is clear that all mov r0,r0 are open-coded nops. Then commit81a0bc39ea("ARM: add UEFI stub support") moved things around and defined __nop for EFI support and missed this open-coded nop. commit06a4b6d009("ARM: 8677/1: boot/compressed: fix decompressor header layout for v7-M") makes all invocations of __nop be wide, but that is fine, because this is what we want: the mov r0,r0 is inside ifndef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL. Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Acked-by: Roy Franz <rfranz@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.