[PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc: Remove facility loadups on transactional {fp, vec, vsx} unavailable

Cyril Bur cyrilbur at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 16:05:17 AEDT 2017


After handling a transactional FP, Altivec or VSX unavailable exception.
The return to userspace code will detect that the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit is
set and call restore_tm_state(). restore_tm_state() will call
restore_math() to ensure that the correct facilities are loaded.

This means that all the loadup code in {fp,altivec,vsx}_unavailable_tm()
is doing pointless work and can simply be removed.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
---
V2: Obvious cleanup which should have been in v1

 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 30 ------------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 4a7bc64352fd..3181e85ef17c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1471,12 +1471,6 @@ void facility_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 void fp_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Save the MSR now because tm_reclaim_current() is likely to
-	 * change it
-	 */
-	unsigned long orig_msr = regs->msr;
-
 	/* Note:  This does not handle any kind of FP laziness. */
 
 	TM_DEBUG("FP Unavailable trap whilst transactional at 0x%lx, MSR=%lx\n",
@@ -1502,24 +1496,10 @@ void fp_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 * so we don't want to load the VRs from the thread_struct.
 	 */
 	tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread);
-
-	/* If VMX is in use, get the transactional values back */
-	if (orig_msr & MSR_VEC) {
-		msr_check_and_set(MSR_VEC);
-		load_vr_state(&current->thread.vr_state);
-		/* At this point all the VSX state is loaded, so enable it */
-		regs->msr |= MSR_VSX;
-	}
 }
 
 void altivec_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Save the MSR now because tm_reclaim_current() is likely to
-	 * change it
-	 */
-	unsigned long orig_msr = regs->msr;
-
 	/* See the comments in fp_unavailable_tm().  This function operates
 	 * the same way.
 	 */
@@ -1531,12 +1511,6 @@ void altivec_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	current->thread.load_vec = 1;
 	tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread);
 	current->thread.used_vr = 1;
-
-	if (orig_msr & MSR_FP) {
-		msr_check_and_set(MSR_FP);
-		load_fp_state(&current->thread.fp_state);
-		regs->msr |= MSR_VSX;
-	}
 }
 
 void vsx_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
@@ -1561,10 +1535,6 @@ void vsx_unavailable_tm(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	current->thread.load_fp = 1;
 
 	tm_recheckpoint(&current->thread);
-
-	msr_check_and_set(MSR_FP | MSR_VEC);
-	load_fp_state(&current->thread.fp_state);
-	load_vr_state(&current->thread.vr_state);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM */
 
-- 
2.14.3



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