powerpc Linux scv support and scv system call ABI proposal

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 02:58:44PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Adhemerval Zanella's on January 29, 2020 3:26 am:
> >     __asm__ __volatile__                                                \
> >       ("sc\n\t"                                                         \
> >        "bns+ 1f\n\t"                                                    \
> >        "neg %1, %1\n\t"                                                 \
> >        "1:\n\t"                                                         \

> True, but the taken branch would be a 1 cycle bubble in fetch. Could 
> avoid that by branching out of line then back for the error case. But
> mfocrf is fine (only sources one register), that's what should be used
> here I think.

        neg %9,%1 ; isel %1,%9,%1,so

> That probably makes the performance argument for avoiding CR[SO] for
> error return indication less significant. Commonality with other
> architectures is probably the bigger reason for it.

Yes, and to have the syscall calling convention closer to the normal
function calling convention would be good, too.


Segher