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Nicholas Piggin bc4f65e4cf powerpc/64: Avoid restore_math call if possible in syscall exit
The syscall exit code that branches to restore_math is quite heavy on
Book3S, consisting of 2 mtmsr instructions. Threads that don't use both
FP and vector can get caught here if the kernel ever uses FP or vector.
Lazy-FP/vec context switching also trips this case.

So check for lazy FP and vector before switching RI for restore_math.
Move most of this case out of line.

For threads that do want to restore math registers, the MSR switches are
still suboptimal. Future direction may be to use a soft-RI bit to avoid
MSR switches in kernel (similar to soft-EE), but for now at least the
no-restore

POWER9 context switch rate increases by about 5% due to sched_yield(2)
return performance. I haven't constructed a test to measure the syscall
cost.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
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boot powerpc/64: Do not link crtsaveres.o in boot 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
configs powerpc/44x/fsp2: Add defconfig for FSP2 board 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-05-02 15:53:46 -07:00
include powerpc/64s: Machine check handle ifetch from foreign real address for POWER9 2017-06-06 21:17:15 +10:00
kernel powerpc/64: Avoid restore_math call if possible in syscall exit 2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
kvm KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Don't include SPAPR TCE code on non-pseries platforms 2017-05-12 15:32:30 +10:00
lib powerpc/lib/xor_vmx: Ensure no altivec code executes before enable_kernel_altivec() 2017-06-02 20:17:52 +10:00
math-emu Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mm powerpc/mm/radix: Only add X for pages overlapping kernel text 2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
net powerpc updates for 4.11 part 1. 2017-02-22 10:30:38 -08:00
oprofile ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
perf powerpc/perf: Add Power8 mem_access event to sysfs 2017-04-19 20:00:23 +10:00
platforms powerpc: Fix some spelling mistakes 2017-06-05 16:50:15 +10:00
purgatory kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up 2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
sysdev powerpc: Fix some spelling mistakes 2017-06-05 16:50:15 +10:00
tools powerpc/64: Tool to check head sections location sanity 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: Fix compile error with PPC_8xx=y 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
Kconfig powerpc: Remove __ilog2()s and use generic ones 2017-06-02 19:23:56 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/xmon: Enable disassembly files (compilation changes) 2017-02-15 20:02:42 +11:00
Makefile powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
Makefile.postlink powerpc/64: Tool to check head sections location sanity 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00