Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] powerpc: Optimize register usage for dear register

[Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 6:09 PM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
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> Le 26/07/2021 à 16:30, sxwjean@me.com a écrit :
> > From: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@gmail.com>
> >
> > Create an anonymous union for dar and dear regsiters, we can reference
> > dear to get the effective address when CONFIG_4xx=y or CONFIG_BOOKE=y.
> > Otherwise, reference dar. This makes code more clear.
>
> Same comment here as for patch 1.

Same reply for the patch 1.
Thank you.

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> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >   arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h      | 5 ++++-
> >   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 5 ++++-
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c          | 2 +-
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c    | 2 ++
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c            | 5 ++++-
> >   arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c                | 2 +-
> >   6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
> > index c252d04b1206..fa725e3238c2 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
> > @@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ struct pt_regs
> >                       unsigned long mq;
> >   #endif
> >                       unsigned long trap;
> > -                     unsigned long dar;
> > +                     union {
> > +                             unsigned long dar;
> > +                             unsigned long dear;
> > +                     };
> >                       union {
> >                               unsigned long dsisr;
> >                               unsigned long esr;
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> > index e357288b5f34..9ae150fb4c4b 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> > @@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ struct pt_regs
> >       unsigned long trap;             /* Reason for being here */
> >       /* N.B. for critical exceptions on 4xx, the dar and dsisr
> >          fields are overloaded to hold srr0 and srr1. */
> > -     unsigned long dar;              /* Fault registers */
> > +     union {
> > +             unsigned long dar;              /* Fault registers */
> > +             unsigned long dear;
> > +     };
> >       union {
> >               unsigned long dsisr;            /* on Book-S used for DSISR */
> >               unsigned long esr;              /* on 4xx/Book-E used for ESR */
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > index f74af8f9133c..50436b52c213 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > @@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ static void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >           trap == INTERRUPT_DATA_STORAGE ||
> >           trap == INTERRUPT_ALIGNMENT) {
> >               if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_4xx) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOKE))
> > -                     pr_cont("DEAR: "REG" ESR: "REG" ", regs->dar, regs->esr);
> > +                     pr_cont("DEAR: "REG" ESR: "REG" ", regs->dear, regs->esr);
> >               else
> >                       pr_cont("DAR: "REG" DSISR: %08lx ", regs->dar, regs->dsisr);
> >       }
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
> > index 00789ad2c4a3..969dca8b0718 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
> > @@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ void __init pt_regs_check(void)
> >                    offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, trap));
> >       BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pt_regs, dar) !=
> >                    offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, dar));
> > +     BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pt_regs, dear) !=
> > +                  offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, dear));
> >       BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pt_regs, dsisr) !=
> >                    offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, dsisr));
> >       BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pt_regs, esr) !=
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > index 2164f5705a0b..0796630d3d23 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -1609,7 +1609,10 @@ DEFINE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER(alignment_exception)
> >       }
> >   bad:
> >       if (user_mode(regs))
> > -             _exception(sig, regs, code, regs->dar);
> > +             if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_4xx) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOKE))
> > +                     _exception(sig, regs, code, regs->dear);
> > +             else
> > +                     _exception(sig, regs, code, regs->dar);
> >       else
> >               bad_page_fault(regs, sig);
> >   }
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> > index 62953d4e7c93..3db6b39a1178 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ static __always_inline void __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >       long err;
> >
> >       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_4xx) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOKE))
> > -             err = ___do_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, regs->esr);
> > +             err = ___do_page_fault(regs, regs->dear, regs->esr);
> >       else
> >               err = ___do_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, regs->dsisr);
> >
> >