current may be cached by the compiler, so remove the volatile asm
restriction. This results in better generated code, as well as being
smaller and fewer dependent loads, it can avoid store-hit-load flushes
like this one that shows up in irq_exit():
preempt_count_sub(HARDIRQ_OFFSET);
if (!in_interrupt() && ...)
Which ends up as:
((struct thread_info *)current)->preempt_count -= HARDIRQ_OFFSET;
if (((struct thread_info *)current)->preempt_count ...
Evaluating current twice presently means it has to be loaded twice, and
here gcc happens to pick a different register each time, then
preempt_count is accessed via that base register:
1058: ld r10,2392(r13) <-- current
105c: lwz r9,0(r10) <-- preempt_count
1060: addis r9,r9,-1
1064: stw r9,0(r10) <-- preempt_count
1068: ld r9,2392(r13) <-- current
106c: lwz r9,0(r9) <-- preempt_count
1070: rlwinm. r9,r9,0,11,23
1074: bne 1090 <irq_exit+0x60>
This can frustrate store-hit-load detection heuristics and cause
flushes. Allowing the compiler to cache current in a reigster with this
patch results in the same base register being used for all accesses,
which is more likely to be detected as an alias:
1058: ld r31,2392(r13)
...
1070: lwz r9,0(r31)
1074: addis r9,r9,-1
1078: stw r9,0(r31)
107c: lwz r9,0(r31)
1080: rlwinm. r9,r9,0,11,23
1084: bne 10a0 <irq_exit+0x60>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190612140317.24490-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a
mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm
Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
