[PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Remove static branch prediction in 64bit traced syscall path

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Wed Jan 9 10:47:36 EST 2013


Some distros enable auditing by default which forces us through the
syscall trace path. Remove the static branch prediction in our 64bit
syscall handler and let the hardware do the prediction.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---

Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
===================================================================
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ END_FW_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FW_FEATURE_SPLP
 	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r11, r1)
 	ld	r10,TI_FLAGS(r11)
 	andi.	r11,r10,_TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A
-	bne-	syscall_dotrace
+	bne	syscall_dotrace
 .Lsyscall_dotrace_cont:
 	cmpldi	0,r0,NR_syscalls
 	bge-	syscall_enosys


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