This patch implements a fast entry for syscalls.
Syscalls don't have to preserve non volatile registers except LR.
This patch then implement a fast entry for syscalls, where
volatile registers get clobbered.
As this entry is dedicated to syscall it always sets MSR_EE
and warns in case MSR_EE was previously off
It also assumes that the call is always from user, system calls are
unexpected from kernel.
The overall series improves null_syscall selftest by 12,5% on an 83xx
and by 17% on a 8xx.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
EXC_XFER_TEMPLATE() is not called with COPY_EE anymore so
we can get rid of copyee parameters and related COPY_EE and NOCOPY
macros.
Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[splited out from benh RFC patch]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
All exceptions handlers know when to reenable interrupts, so
it is safer to enter all of them with MSR_EE unset, except
for syscalls.
Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[splited out from benh RFC patch]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
syscalls are expected to be entered with MSR_EE set. Lets
make it inconditional by forcing MSR_EE on syscalls.
This patch adds EXC_XFER_SYS for that.
Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[splited out from benh RFC patch]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Refactor exception entry macros by using the ones defined in head_32.h
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
6xx/8xx EXC_XFER_TEMPLATE() macro adds a i##n symbol which is
unused and can be removed.
40x and booke EXC_XFER_TEMPLATE() macros takes msr from the caller
while the 6xx/8xx version uses only MSR_KERNEL as msr value.
This patch modifies the 6xx/8xx version to make it similar to the
40x and booke versions.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
As preparation for using head_32.h for head_40x.S, move
LOAD_MSR_KERNEL() there and use it to load r10 with MSR_KERNEL value.
In the mean time, this patch modifies it so that it takes into account
the size of the passed value to determine if 'li' can be used or if
'lis/ori' is needed instead of using the size of MSR_KERNEL. This is
done by using gas macro.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
EXCEPTION_PROLOG is similar in head_8xx.S and head_32.S
This patch creates head_32.h and moves EXCEPTION_PROLOG macro
into it. It also converts it from a GCC macro to a GAS macro
in order to ease refactorisation with 40x later, since
GAS macros allows the use of #ifdef/#else/#endif inside it.
And it also has the advantage of not requiring the uggly "; \"
at the end of each line.
This patch also moves EXCEPTION() and EXC_XFER_XXXX() macros which
are also similar while adding START_EXCEPTION() out of EXCEPTION().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Christophe Leroy