[RFC PATCH for 4.18 10/16] powerpc: Wire up restartable sequences system call

From: Boqun Feng <redacted>

Wire up the rseq system call on powerpc.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu
operation on powerpc by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast
path, as well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu
data compared to using load-reservation/store-conditional atomics.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h      | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h      | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
index d61f9c96d916..45d4d37495fd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h

@@ -392,3 +392,4 @@ SYSCALL(statx)
 SYSCALL(pkey_alloc)
 SYSCALL(pkey_free)
 SYSCALL(pkey_mprotect)
+SYSCALL(rseq)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
index daf1ba97a00c..1e9708632dce 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #include <uapi/asm/unistd.h>
 
 
-#define NR_syscalls		387
+#define NR_syscalls		388
 
 #define __NR__exit __NR_exit
 

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index 389c36fd8299..ac5ba55066dd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h

@@ -398,5 +398,6 @@
 #define __NR_pkey_alloc		384
 #define __NR_pkey_free		385
 #define __NR_pkey_mprotect	386
+#define __NR_rseq		387
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_ASM_POWERPC_UNISTD_H_ */

-- 
2.11.0

Mathieu Desnoyers [off-list ref] writes:

From: Boqun Feng <redacted>

Wire up the rseq system call on powerpc.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu
operation on powerpc by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast
path, as well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu
data compared to using load-reservation/store-conditional atomics.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h      | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h      | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks fine to me.

I don't have any other new syscalls in my next, so this should not
conflict with anything for 4.18.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)


cheers

----- On Jun 5, 2018, at 1:18 AM, Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au wrote:

Mathieu Desnoyers [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

From: Boqun Feng <redacted>

Wire up the rseq system call on powerpc.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu
operation on powerpc by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast
path, as well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu
data compared to using load-reservation/store-conditional atomics.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h      | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h      | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks fine to me.

I don't have any other new syscalls in my next, so this should not
conflict with anything for 4.18.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

Added your ack to the series, thanks!

Mathieu

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