[RFC V1 0/6] Generic Entry/Exit support for ppc64

[Ankur Arora]

Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras at linux.ibm.com> writes:

> This is a syscall only implementation of generic entry/exit framework
> for framework for ppc. IRQ handling is not done in this RFC.
>
> This will break the ppc32 build as of now which will be fixed along with
> IRQ handling.
>
> Below are the performance benchmarks from perf bench basic syscall.
> This is for 1,00,00,000 getppid() calls
>
> | Metric     | Without Generic Framework | With Generic Framework |
> | ---------- | ------------------------- | ---------------------- |
> | Total time | 0.904 [sec]               | 0.856 [sec]            |
> | usecs/op   | 0.090403                  | 0.085638               |
> | ops/sec    | 1,10,61,579               | 1,16,77,086            |
>
> That's ~5% degradation as of now.

Is the table header inverted? That reads like a ~5% improvement with the
generic version.

Ankur

> Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (6):
>   powerpc: rename arch_irq_disabled_regs
>   powerpc: Prepare to build with genreic entry/exit framework
>   powerpc: introduce arch_enter_from_user_mode
>   powerpc: Add flag in paca for register restore state
>   powerpc: Introduce syscall exit arch functions
>   powerpc: Enable Generic Entry/Exit for syscalls.
>
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                    |   1 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h       |   4 +-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h    | 117 +++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h         |   1 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h   |   8 ++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h      |   5 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h  |   1 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c         | 153 ++++++-----------------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c     | 103 ---------------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c            |   8 ++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c           | 117 +-----------------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c             |   2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c          |   2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c         |   2 +-
>  15 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 346 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h


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ankur