[PATCH v3 04/21] powerpc: Return the new MSR from msr_check_and_set()

[Michael Neuling]

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 13:43 +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> mfmsr() is a fairly expensive call and callers of msr_check_and_set()
> may want to make decisions bits in the MSR that it did not change but
> may not know the value of.

I can't grok this.  Please reword.

Mikey

> This patch would avoid a two calls to mfmsr().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c  | 4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> index f69f40f..0a3dde9 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> @@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ static inline void mtmsr_isync(unsigned long val)
>  				     : "memory")
>  #endif
>  
> -extern void msr_check_and_set(unsigned long bits);
> +extern unsigned long msr_check_and_set(unsigned long bits);
>  extern bool strict_msr_control;
>  extern void __msr_check_and_clear(unsigned long bits);
>  static inline void msr_check_and_clear(unsigned long bits)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index 82308fd..c42581b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int __init enable_strict_msr_control(char
> *str)
>  }
>  early_param("ppc_strict_facility_enable", enable_strict_msr_control);
>  
> -void msr_check_and_set(unsigned long bits)
> +unsigned long msr_check_and_set(unsigned long bits)
>  {
>  	unsigned long oldmsr = mfmsr();
>  	unsigned long newmsr;
> @@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ void msr_check_and_set(unsigned long bits)
>  
>  	if (oldmsr != newmsr)
>  		mtmsr_isync(newmsr);
> +
> +	return newmsr;
>  }
>  
>  void __msr_check_and_clear(unsigned long bits)