Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 3 authors, 2019-12-19

Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] powerpc/irq: inline call_do_irq() and call_do_softirq()

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2019-11-21 06:14:52
Also in: lkml

Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] writes:
call_do_irq() and call_do_softirq() are quite similar on PPC32 and
PPC64 and are simple enough to be worth inlining.

Inlining them avoids an mflr/mtlr pair plus a save/reload on stack.

This is inspired from S390 arch. Several other arches do more or
less the same. The way sparc arch does seems odd thought.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <redacted>

---
v2: no change.
v3: no change.
v4:
- comment reminding the purpose of the inline asm block.
- added r2 as clobbered reg
That breaks 64-bit with GCC9:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c: In function 'do_IRQ':
  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c:650:2: error: PIC register clobbered by 'r2' in 'asm'
    650 |  asm volatile(
        |  ^~~
  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c: In function 'do_softirq_own_stack':
  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c:711:2: error: PIC register clobbered by 'r2' in 'asm'
    711 |  asm volatile(
        |  ^~~

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 04204be49577..d62fe18405a0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -642,6 +642,22 @@ void __do_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	irq_exit();
 }
 
+static inline void call_do_irq(struct pt_regs *regs, void *sp)
+{
+	register unsigned long r3 asm("r3") = (unsigned long)regs;
+
+	/* Temporarily switch r1 to sp, call __do_irq() then restore r1 */
+	asm volatile(
+		"	"PPC_STLU"	1, %2(%1);\n"
+		"	mr		1, %1;\n"
+		"	bl		%3;\n"
+		"	"PPC_LL"	1, 0(1);\n" :
+		"+r"(r3) :
+		"b"(sp), "i"(THREAD_SIZE - STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD), "i"(__do_irq) :
+		"lr", "xer", "ctr", "memory", "cr0", "cr1", "cr5", "cr6", "cr7",
+		"r0", "r2", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7", "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11", "r12");
+}
If we add a nop after the bl, so the linker could insert a TOC restore,
then I don't think there's any circumstance under which we expect this
to actually clobber r2, is there?

cheers
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