When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where
it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return
address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers
when returning from interrupt.
Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR
registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when
using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when
adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context
switching (which changes the return address and MSR).
This improves the performance of interrupt returns.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com
We implement regs_set_return_value() and override_function_with_return()
for this purpose.
On powerpc, a return from a function (blr) just branches to the location
contained in the link register. So, we can just update pt_regs rather
than redirecting execution to a dummy function that returns.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
