powerpc/64: Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case

The mflr r10 instruction was left over from when the code used LR to
branch to system_call_entry from the exception handler. That was
changed by commit 6a404806df ("powerpc: Avoid link stack corruption in
MMU on syscall entry path") to use the count register. The value is
never used now, so mflr can be removed, and r10 can be used for storage
rather than spilling to the SPR scratch register.

The scratch register spill causes a long pipeline stall due to the SPR
read after write. This change brings getppid syscall cost from 406 to
376 cycles on POWER8. getppid for non-relocatable case is 371 cycles.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin 2016-09-15 19:03:21 +10:00 committed by Michael Ellerman
parent d5a1e42cb4
commit 18e3f56b1c
1 changed files with 2 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -62,14 +62,11 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_REAL_LE) \
* is volatile across system calls.
*/
#define SYSCALL_PSERIES_2_DIRECT \
mflr r10 ; \
LOAD_HANDLER(r12, system_call_entry) ; \
mtctr r12 ; \
mfspr r12,SPRN_SRR1 ; \
/* Re-use of r13... No spare regs to do this */ \
li r13,MSR_RI ; \
mtmsrd r13,1 ; \
GET_PACA(r13) ; /* get r13 back */ \
li r10,MSR_RI ; \
mtmsrd r10,1 ; \
bctr ;
#else
/* We can branch directly */