[PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Move branch instruction from ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY to caller
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Sep 10 10:05:05 EST 2012
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 04:36 -0700, Haren Myneni wrote:
> The first instruction in ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY is 'beq' which checkes for
> exceptions coming from kernel mode. PPR value will be saved immediately after
> ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY and is also for user level exceptions. So moved this
> branch instruction in the caller code.
grep fail ? ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY is used in exception-64e.S as well,
so that needs to be updated too.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren at us.ibm.com>
>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 3 ++-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h | 2 --
> arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 3 ++-
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
> index a43c147..45702e0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
> @@ -176,8 +176,9 @@ do_kvm_##n: \
> std r10,0(r1); /* make stack chain pointer */ \
> std r0,GPR0(r1); /* save r0 in stackframe */ \
> std r10,GPR1(r1); /* save r1 in stackframe */ \
> + beq 4f; /* if from kernel mode */ \
> ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY(r9, r10); \
> - std r2,GPR2(r1); /* save r2 in stackframe */ \
> +4: std r2,GPR2(r1); /* save r2 in stackframe */ \
> SAVE_4GPRS(3, r1); /* save r3 - r6 in stackframe */ \
> SAVE_2GPRS(7, r1); /* save r7, r8 in stackframe */ \
> ld r9,area+EX_R9(r13); /* move r9, r10 to stackframe */ \
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> index ea2a86e..376e36d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
> #define ACCOUNT_STOLEN_TIME
> #else
> #define ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY(ra, rb) \
> - beq 2f; /* if from kernel mode */ \
> MFTB(ra); /* get timebase */ \
> ld rb,PACA_STARTTIME_USER(r13); \
> std ra,PACA_STARTTIME(r13); \
> @@ -38,7 +37,6 @@
> ld ra,PACA_USER_TIME(r13); \
> add ra,ra,rb; /* add on to user time */ \
> std ra,PACA_USER_TIME(r13); \
> -2:
>
> #define ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_EXIT(ra, rb) \
> MFTB(ra); /* get timebase */ \
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> index b40e0b4..8d21cc4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> @@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ system_call_common:
> std r12,_MSR(r1)
> std r0,GPR0(r1)
> std r10,GPR1(r1)
> + beq 2f /* if from kernel mode */
> ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY(r10, r11)
> - std r2,GPR2(r1)
> +2: std r2,GPR2(r1)
> std r3,GPR3(r1)
> mfcr r2
> std r4,GPR4(r1)
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