It will be used later on by the sllv and srlv instructions. Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6723/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>