[PATCH v3 02/13] powerpc/64s/exception: avoid SPR RAW scoreboard stall in real mode entry

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 15:33:21 AEST 2019


Move SPR reads ahead of writes. Real mode entry that is not a KVM
guest is rare these days, but bad practice propagates.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index 98321ded8df6..c3a9cb8cdfd3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -183,19 +183,19 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_NESTED(ftr,ftr,943)
 	.endif
 	.if \hsrr
 	mfspr	r11,SPRN_HSRR0		/* save HSRR0 */
+	mfspr	r12,SPRN_HSRR1		/* and HSRR1 */
+	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR1,r10
 	.else
 	mfspr	r11,SPRN_SRR0		/* save SRR0 */
+	mfspr	r12,SPRN_SRR1		/* and SRR1 */
+	mtspr	SPRN_SRR1,r10
 	.endif
-	LOAD_HANDLER(r12, \label\())
+	LOAD_HANDLER(r10, \label\())
 	.if \hsrr
-	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR0,r12
-	mfspr	r12,SPRN_HSRR1		/* and HSRR1 */
-	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR1,r10
+	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR0,r10
 	HRFI_TO_KERNEL
 	.else
-	mtspr	SPRN_SRR0,r12
-	mfspr	r12,SPRN_SRR1		/* and SRR1 */
-	mtspr	SPRN_SRR1,r10
+	mtspr	SPRN_SRR0,r10
 	RFI_TO_KERNEL
 	.endif
 	b	.	/* prevent speculative execution */
-- 
2.20.1



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