From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] lib: vdso: get pointer to vdso data from the arch
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:27:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrW9hsrVVzudvRY22AqakcsrVzqp=SdwOTwW2zRBK+kEaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02861d0a05c2d48db4e9ee9093e2e2598093c372.1577111366.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 6:31 AM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
>
> On powerpc, __arch_get_vdso_data() clobbers the link register,
> requiring the caller to set a stack frame in order to save it.
>
> As the parent function already has to set a stack frame and save
> the link register to call the C vdso function, retriving the
> vdso data pointer there is lighter.
I'm confused. Can't you inline __arch_get_vdso_data()? Or is the
issue that you can't retrieve the program counter on power without
clobbering the link register?
I would imagine that this patch generates worse code on any
architecture with PC-relative addressing modes (which includes at
least x86_64, and I would guess includes most modern architectures).
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-24 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 14:31 [RFC PATCH v2 00/10] powerpc/32: switch VDSO to C implementation Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] lib: vdso: ensure all arches have 32bit fallback Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-10 20:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-10 21:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-30 12:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-02 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-09 15:43 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/10] lib: vdso: move call to fallback out of common code Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 11:41 ` christophe leroy
2019-12-24 12:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/10] lib: vdso: Change __cvdso_clock_gettime/getres_common() to __cvdso_clock_gettime/getres() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] lib: vdso: get pointer to vdso data from the arch Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:27 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-12-24 11:53 ` christophe leroy
2019-12-24 12:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 12:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 14:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/10] lib: vdso: inline do_hres() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-30 12:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-10 21:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-11 9:06 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] lib: vdso: make do_coarse() return 0 Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/10] lib: vdso: don't use READ_ONCE() in __c_kernel_time() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 1:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 11:12 ` christophe leroy
2019-12-24 12:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-10 21:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-11 8:05 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-11 11:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-13 6:52 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] lib: vdso: Avoid duplication in __cvdso_clock_getres() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 1:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/10] powerpc/vdso32: inline __get_datapage() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/10] powerpc/32: Switch VDSO to C implementation Christophe Leroy
2020-01-09 17:52 ` Surprising code generated for vdso_read_begin() Christophe Leroy
2020-01-09 20:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-01-10 6:45 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-11 11:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-02-16 18:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-19 8:45 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-02-19 9:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-19 13:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
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