[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(¤t->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(¤t->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(¤t->thread);
current->thread.used_vr = 1;
-
- if (orig_msr & MSR_FP) {
- msr_check_and_set(MSR_FP);
- load_fp_state(¤t->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(¤t->thread);
-
- msr_check_and_set(MSR_FP | MSR_VEC);
- load_fp_state(¤t->thread.fp_state);
- load_vr_state(¤t->thread.vr_state);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM */
--
2.14.3
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