[PATCH 09/19] powerpc: Move part of giveup_fpu,altivec,spe into c

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 11:44 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from
> the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes
> by batching them up.
> 
> Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check into these new functions.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index 5bf8ec2..6bcf82b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -214,6 +244,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_vsx_to_thread);
>  #endif /* CONFIG_VSX */
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SPE
> +void giveup_spe(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +	u64 oldmsr = mfmsr();
> +	u64 newmsr;
> +
> +	check_if_tm_restore_required(tsk);


We can't be building with SPE and also TM can we? I guess this is harmless as
it will compile to nothing, but it might be confusing to readers.

> +	newmsr = oldmsr | MSR_SPE;
> +	if (oldmsr != newmsr)
> +		mtmsr_isync(newmsr);
> +
> +	__giveup_spe(tsk);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(giveup_spe);
>  
>  void enable_kernel_spe(void)
>  {

cheers