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diff --git a/Documentation/parisc/registers b/Documentation/parisc/registers
index 08b9f55..dd3cadd 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/parisc/registers
+++ b/Documentation/parisc/registers
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ CR31 (TR 7)                   Temporary register, used in various places
 SR0                            temporary space register
 SR4-SR7                        set to 0
 SR1                            temporary space register
-SR2                            unused
-SR3                            used for userspace accesses (current process)*
+SR2                            kernel should not clobber this
+SR3                            used for userspace accesses (current process)
 
        Space Registers (user mode)
 
@@ -78,13 +78,8 @@ Shadow Registers             used by interruption handler code
 TOC enable bit                 1
 
 =========================================================================
-Info from John Marvin:
-
-From: "John Marvin" <jsm@udlkern.fc.hp.com>
-To: randolf@tausq.org
-Subject: Re: parisc asm questions
-
-[...]
+Register usage notes, originally from John Marvin, with some additional
+notes from Randolph Chung.
 
 For the general registers:
 
@@ -111,9 +106,10 @@ that you should be aware of:
        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. I'm not sure I remember
-       under what circumstances stuff is returned in r29 (millicode
-       perhaps).
+       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.
 
@@ -123,6 +119,3 @@ r3-r18,r27,r30 need to be saved and restored. r3-r18 are just
     used to make references to global variables easier. r30 is
     the stack pointer.
 
-John
-
-