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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>
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> I'm very interesting to know why it's bad to restore flags in a sub-function.
> I imagine it should be due to an optimisation in the restore function.

On sparc32 the flags includes the window pointer which tells us where in
the register windows we are. If you restore flags in a sub function
the kernel will become very confused :)

Forcing cli/sti etc to be in the same function also helps readability.

Anton
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