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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/32: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 05:16:05 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91b1d242525307ceceec7ef6e832bfbacdd4501b.1629436472.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> (raw)

Copied from commit 89bbe4c798bc ("powerpc/64: indirect function call
use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread")

blrl is not recommended to use as an indirect function call, as it may
corrupt the link stack predictor.

This is not a performance critical path but this should be fixed for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 0273a1349006..61fdd53cdd9a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ ret_from_fork:
 ret_from_kernel_thread:
 	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
 	bl	schedule_tail
-	mtlr	r14
+	mtctr	r14
 	mr	r3,r15
 	PPC440EP_ERR42
-	blrl
+	bctrl
 	li	r3,0
 	b	ret_from_syscall
 
-- 
2.25.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-08-20  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-20  5:16 Christophe Leroy [this message]
2021-08-20 12:15 ` [PATCH] powerpc/32: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread Michael Ellerman
2021-08-20 17:18   ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-08-20 18:12     ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-08-27 13:15 ` Michael Ellerman

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