[PATCH 2/5] powerpc/64s/exception: optimise system_reset for idle, clean up non-idle case

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 16:33:19 AEST 2019


The idle wake up code in the system reset interrupt is not very
optimal. There are two requirements: perform idle wake up quickly;
and save everything including CFAR for non-idle interrupts, with
no performance requirement.

The problem with placing the idle test in the middle of the handler
and using the normal handler code to save CFAR, is that it's quite
costly (e.g., mfcfar is serialising, speculative workarounds get
applied, SRR1 has to be reloaded, etc). It also prevents the standard
interrupt handler boilerplate being used.

This pain can be avoided by using a dedicated idle interrupt handler
at the start of the interrupt handler, which restores all registers
back to the way they were in case it was not an idle wake up. CFAR
is preserved without saving it before the non-idle case by making that
the fall-through, and idle is a taken branch.

Performance seems to be in the noise, but possibly around 0.5% faster,
the executed instructions certainly look better. The bigger benefit is
being able to drop in standard interrupt handlers after the idle code,
which helps with subsequent cleanup and consolidation.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 69 +++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index 9aafe86193db..4b33aadd142c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_NESTED(ftr,ftr,943)
  * load KBASE for a slight optimisation.
  */
 #define BRANCH_TO_C000(reg, label)					\
-	__LOAD_HANDLER(reg, label);					\
+	__LOAD_FAR_HANDLER(reg, label);					\
 	mtctr	reg;							\
 	bctr
 
@@ -822,15 +822,6 @@ EXC_VIRT_NONE(0x4000, 0x100)
 
 
 EXC_REAL_BEGIN(system_reset, 0x100, 0x100)
-	EXCEPTION_PROLOG_0 PACA_EXNMI
-
-	/* This is EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1 with the idle feature section added */
-	OPT_SAVE_REG_TO_PACA(PACA_EXNMI+EX_PPR, r9, CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
-	OPT_SAVE_REG_TO_PACA(PACA_EXNMI+EX_CFAR, r10, CPU_FTR_CFAR)
-	INTERRUPT_TO_KERNEL
-	SAVE_CTR(r10, PACA_EXNMI)
-	mfcr	r9
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_P7_NAP
 	/*
 	 * If running native on arch 2.06 or later, check if we are waking up
@@ -838,43 +829,59 @@ EXC_REAL_BEGIN(system_reset, 0x100, 0x100)
 	 * bits 46:47. A non-0 value indicates that we are coming from a power
 	 * saving state. The idle wakeup handler initially runs in real mode,
 	 * but we branch to the 0xc000... address so we can turn on relocation
-	 * with mtmsr.
+	 * with mtmsrd later, after SPRs are restored.
+	 *
+	 * Careful to minimise cost for the fast path (idle wakeup) while
+	 * also avoiding clobbering CFAR for the debug path (non-idle).
+	 *
+	 * For the idle wake case volatile registers can be clobbered, which
+	 * is why we use those initially. If it turns out to not be an idle
+	 * wake, carefully put everything back the way it was, so we can use
+	 * common exception macros to handle it.
 	 */
 BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
-	mfspr	r10,SPRN_SRR1
-	rlwinm.	r10,r10,47-31,30,31
-	beq-	1f
-	cmpwi	cr1,r10,2
+	SET_SCRATCH0(r13)
+	GET_PACA(r13)
+	std	r3,PACA_EXNMI+0*8(r13)
+	std	r4,PACA_EXNMI+1*8(r13)
+	std	r5,PACA_EXNMI+2*8(r13)
 	mfspr	r3,SPRN_SRR1
-	bltlr	cr1	/* no state loss, return to idle caller */
-	BRANCH_TO_C000(r10, system_reset_idle_common)
-1:
+	mfocrf	r4,0x80
+	rlwinm.	r5,r3,47-31,30,31
+	bne+	system_reset_idle_wake
+	/* Not powersave wakeup. Restore regs for regular interrupt handler. */
+	mtocrf	0x80,r4
+	ld	r3,PACA_EXNMI+0*8(r13)
+	ld	r4,PACA_EXNMI+1*8(r13)
+	ld	r5,PACA_EXNMI+2*8(r13)
+	GET_SCRATCH0(r13)
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
 #endif
 
-	KVMTEST EXC_STD 0x100
-	std	r11,PACA_EXNMI+EX_R11(r13)
-	std	r12,PACA_EXNMI+EX_R12(r13)
-	GET_SCRATCH0(r10)
-	std	r10,PACA_EXNMI+EX_R13(r13)
-
+	EXCEPTION_PROLOG_0 PACA_EXNMI
+	EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1 EXC_STD, PACA_EXNMI, 1, 0x100, 0, 0, 0
 	EXCEPTION_PROLOG_2_REAL system_reset_common, EXC_STD, 0
 	/*
 	 * MSR_RI is not enabled, because PACA_EXNMI and nmi stack is
 	 * being used, so a nested NMI exception would corrupt it.
+	 *
+	 * In theory, we should not enable relocation here if it was disabled
+	 * in SRR1, because the MMU may not be configured to support it (e.g.,
+	 * SLB may have been cleared). In practice, there should only be a few
+	 * small windows where that's the case, and sreset is considered to
+	 * be dangerous anyway.
 	 */
-
 EXC_REAL_END(system_reset, 0x100, 0x100)
+
 EXC_VIRT_NONE(0x4100, 0x100)
 TRAMP_KVM(PACA_EXNMI, 0x100)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_P7_NAP
-EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(system_reset_idle_common)
-	/*
-	 * This must be a direct branch (without linker branch stub) because
-	 * we can not use TOC at this point as r2 may not be restored yet.
-	 */
-	b	idle_return_gpr_loss
+TRAMP_REAL_BEGIN(system_reset_idle_wake)
+	/* We are waking up from idle, so may clobber any volatile register */
+	cmpwi	cr1,r5,2
+	bltlr	cr1	/* no state loss, return to idle caller with r3=SRR1 */
+	BRANCH_TO_C000(r12, idle_return_gpr_loss)
 #endif
 
 EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(system_reset_common)
-- 
2.20.1



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