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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:41:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1566902428.f4rgy4icjs.astroid@bobo.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566900842.ttf5qhpflv.astroid@bobo.none>

Nicholas Piggin's on August 27, 2019 8:20 pm:
> Christophe Leroy's on August 27, 2019 4:13 pm:
>> 
>> 
>> Le 27/08/2019 à 05:30, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
>>> There is support for the kernel to execute the 'sc 0' instruction and
>>> make a system call to itself. This is a relic that is unused in the
>>> tree, therefore untested. It's also highly questionable for modules to
>>> be doing this.
>> 
>> I like it.
>> 
>> I dropped support for that in PPC32 when I added fast-path syscalls.
> 
> Good, then we'll match again.
> 
>>> -	beq	2f			/* if from kernel mode */
>>>   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
>>>   START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
>>>   	BTB_FLUSH(r10)
>>>   END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
>>>   #endif
>>>   	ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY(r13, r10, r11)
>>> -2:	std	r2,GPR2(r1)
> 
> Btw. there is a hunk which restores this optimisation but it leaked
> into a later patch, I'll move it back here.

I'm wrong. Now I look at it again, the hunk should be removed
completely of course.

Thanks,
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27  3:30 [PATCH 0/4] powerpc/64: syscalls in C Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  3:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: convert to copy_thread_tls Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  6:07   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-27 10:13     ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27 14:00       ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-02  3:29   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-27  3:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  6:13   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-27 10:20     ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27 10:41       ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2019-08-27  3:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64s: " Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  6:14   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-27 10:21     ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  3:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/64: system call remove non-volatile GPR save optimisation Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  8:10   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-27  3:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64: system call implement the bulk of the logic in C Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27  6:46   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-27 10:30     ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-08-27 14:35   ` kbuild test robot

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