parisc: document the shadow registers

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/parisc/registers b/Documentation/parisc/registers
index dd3caddd1ad9..10c7d1730f5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/parisc/registers
+++ b/Documentation/parisc/registers
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ Shadow Registers		used by interruption handler code
 TOC enable bit                  1
 
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+
+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.