[PATCH v3 25/41] powerpc/32: Don't save thread.regs on interrupt entry

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Fri Mar 12 23:50:35 AEDT 2021


Since commit 06d67d54741a ("powerpc: make process.c suitable for both
32-bit and 64-bit"), thread.regs is set on task creation, no need to
set it again and again at each interrupt entry as it never change.

Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 79311d0bd09b..1e201fc4a590 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -97,10 +97,8 @@ transfer_to_handler:
 	stw	r2,_XER(r11)
 	mfspr	r12,SPRN_SPRG_THREAD
 	tovirt(r12, r12)
-	beq	2f			/* if from user, fix up THREAD.regs */
+	beq	2f
 	addi	r2, r12, -THREAD
-	addi	r11,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
-	stw	r11,PT_REGS(r12)
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32
 	kuep_lock r11, r12
 #endif
@@ -147,7 +145,6 @@ transfer_to_syscall:
 	/* Calling convention has r9 = orig r0, r10 = regs */
 	addi	r10,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
 	mr	r9,r0
-	stw	r10,THREAD+PT_REGS(r2)
 	bl	system_call_exception
 
 ret_from_syscall:
-- 
2.25.0



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