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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2012-05-29 08:22:00 -0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-07-03 00:14:43 -0400
commitac1dc36558da25934f83a2871b9e70239a987351 (patch)
tree155d119bd3534b9f324e02a0454d0fbba58d6a88 /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
parenta9514dc69d5c4f5d6d9e4b8eed40172abd150c61 (diff)
powerpc: Clear RI and EE at the same time in system call exit
mtmsrd is an expensive instruction, we save a few cycles by doing it once instead of twice. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S25
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 5971c85df136..cf38a17ab28a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -197,7 +197,16 @@ syscall_exit:
197 wrteei 0 197 wrteei 0
198#else 198#else
199 ld r10,PACAKMSR(r13) 199 ld r10,PACAKMSR(r13)
200 mtmsrd r10,1 200 /*
201 * For performance reasons we clear RI the same time that we
202 * clear EE. We only need to clear RI just before we restore r13
203 * below, but batching it with EE saves us one expensive mtmsrd call.
204 * We have to be careful to restore RI if we branch anywhere from
205 * here (eg syscall_exit_work).
206 */
207 li r9,MSR_RI
208 andc r11,r10,r9
209 mtmsrd r11,1
201#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */ 210#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */
202 211
203 ld r9,TI_FLAGS(r12) 212 ld r9,TI_FLAGS(r12)
@@ -214,17 +223,6 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
214END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS) 223END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS)
215 andi. r6,r8,MSR_PR 224 andi. r6,r8,MSR_PR
216 ld r4,_LINK(r1) 225 ld r4,_LINK(r1)
217 /*
218 * Clear RI before restoring r13. If we are returning to
219 * userspace and we take an exception after restoring r13,
220 * we end up corrupting the userspace r13 value.
221 */
222#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
223 /* No MSR:RI on BookE */
224 li r12,MSR_RI
225 andc r11,r10,r12
226 mtmsrd r11,1 /* clear MSR.RI */
227#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S */
228 226
229 beq- 1f 227 beq- 1f
230 ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_EXIT(r11, r12) 228 ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_EXIT(r11, r12)
@@ -271,6 +269,9 @@ syscall_enosys:
271 b syscall_exit 269 b syscall_exit
272 270
273syscall_exit_work: 271syscall_exit_work:
272#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
273 mtmsrd r10,1 /* Restore RI */
274#endif
274 /* If TIF_RESTOREALL is set, don't scribble on either r3 or ccr. 275 /* If TIF_RESTOREALL is set, don't scribble on either r3 or ccr.
275 If TIF_NOERROR is set, just save r3 as it is. */ 276 If TIF_NOERROR is set, just save r3 as it is. */
276 277