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+Register Usage for Linux/PA-RISC
+
+[ an asterisk is used for planned usage which is currently unimplemented ]
+
+ General Registers as specified by ABI
+
+ Control Registers
+
+CR 0 (Recovery Counter) used for ptrace
+CR 1-CR 7(undefined) unused
+CR 8 (Protection ID) per-process value*
+CR 9, 12, 13 (PIDS) unused
+CR10 (CCR) lazy FPU saving*
+CR11 as specified by ABI (SAR)
+CR14 (interruption vector) initialized to fault_vector
+CR15 (EIEM) initialized to all ones*
+CR16 (Interval Timer) read for cycle count/write starts Interval Tmr
+CR17-CR22 interruption parameters
+CR19 Interrupt Instruction Register
+CR20 Interrupt Space Register
+CR21 Interrupt Offset Register
+CR22 Interrupt PSW
+CR23 (EIRR) read for pending interrupts/write clears bits
+CR24 (TR 0) Kernel Space Page Directory Pointer
+CR25 (TR 1) User Space Page Directory Pointer
+CR26 (TR 2) not used
+CR27 (TR 3) Thread descriptor pointer
+CR28 (TR 4) not used
+CR29 (TR 5) not used
+CR30 (TR 6) current / 0
+CR31 (TR 7) Temporary register, used in various places
+
+ Space Registers (kernel mode)
+
+SR0 temporary space register
+SR4-SR7 set to 0
+SR1 temporary space register
+SR2 kernel should not clobber this
+SR3 used for userspace accesses (current process)
+
+ Space Registers (user mode)
+
+SR0 temporary space register
+SR1 temporary space register
+SR2 holds space of linux gateway page
+SR3 holds user address space value while in kernel
+SR4-SR7 Defines short address space for user/kernel
+
+
+ Processor Status Word
+
+W (64-bit addresses) 0
+E (Little-endian) 0
+S (Secure Interval Timer) 0
+T (Taken Branch Trap) 0
+H (Higher-privilege trap) 0
+L (Lower-privilege trap) 0
+N (Nullify next instruction) used by C code
+X (Data memory break disable) 0
+B (Taken Branch) used by C code
+C (code address translation) 1, 0 while executing real-mode code
+V (divide step correction) used by C code
+M (HPMC mask) 0, 1 while executing HPMC handler*
+C/B (carry/borrow bits) used by C code
+O (ordered references) 1*
+F (performance monitor) 0
+R (Recovery Counter trap) 0
+Q (collect interruption state) 1 (0 in code directly preceding an rfi)
+P (Protection Identifiers) 1*
+D (Data address translation) 1, 0 while executing real-mode code
+I (external interrupt mask) used by cli()/sti() macros
+
+ "Invisible" Registers
+
+PSW default W value 0
+PSW default E value 0
+Shadow Registers used by interruption handler code
+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.
+
+For the general registers:
+
+r1,r2,r19-r26,r28,r29 & r31 can be used without saving them first. And of
+course, you need to save them if you care about them, before calling
+another procedure. Some of the above registers do have special meanings
+that you should be aware of:
+
+ r1: The addil instruction is hardwired to place its result in r1,
+ so if you use that instruction be aware of that.
+
+ r2: This is the return pointer. In general you don't want to
+ use this, since you need the pointer to get back to your
+ caller. However, it is grouped with this set of registers
+ since the caller can't rely on the value being the same
+ when you return, i.e. you can copy r2 to another register
+ and return through that register after trashing r2, and
+ that should not cause a problem for the calling routine.
+
+ r19-r22: these are generally regarded as temporary registers.
+ Note that in 64 bit they are arg7-arg4.
+
+ r23-r26: these are arg3-arg0, i.e. you can use them if you
+ don't care about the values that were passed in anymore.
+
+ r28,r29: are ret0 and ret1. They are what you pass return values
+ in. r28 is the primary return. When returning small structures
+ r29 may also be used to pass data back to the caller.
+
+ r30: stack pointer
+
+ r31: the ble instruction puts the return pointer in here.
+
+
+r3-r18,r27,r30 need to be saved and restored. r3-r18 are just
+ general purpose registers. r27 is the data pointer, and is
+ used to make references to global variables easier. r30 is
+ the stack pointer.
+
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