[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss

[Anton Blanchard]

From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>

Early on in do_page_fault() we call store_updates_sp(), regardless of
the type of exception. For an instruction miss this doesn't make
sense, because we only use this information to detect if a data miss
is the result of a stack expansion instruction or not.

Worse still, it results in a data miss within every userspace
instruction miss handler, because we try and load the very instruction
we are about to install a pte for!

A simple exec microbenchmark runs 6% faster on POWER8 with this fix:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	unsigned long left = atol(argv[1]);
	char leftstr[16];

	if (left-- == 0)
		return 0;

	sprintf(leftstr, "%ld", left);
	execlp(argv[0], argv[0], leftstr, NULL);
	perror("exec failed\n");

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index fd6484fc2fa9..3a7d580fdc59 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 	 * can result in fault, which will cause a deadlock when called with
 	 * mmap_sem held
 	 */
-	if (user_mode(regs))
+	if (!is_exec && user_mode(regs))
 		store_update_sp = store_updates_sp(regs);
 
 	if (user_mode(regs))
-- 
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