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Aneesh Kumar K.V
45949ebe6c powerpc/nohash: we don't use real_pte_t for nohash
Remove the related functions and #defines

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:16 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
cc50380db3 powerpc/nohash: Update 64K nohash config to have 32 pte fragement
They don't need to track 4k subpage slot details and hence don't need
second half of pgtable_t.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:16 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
4d9057c39a powerpc/mm: Don't hardcode the hash pte slot shift
Use the #define instead of open-coding the same

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:15 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
62607bc64c powerpc/mm: Don't hardcode page table size
pte and pmd table size are dependent on config items. Don't
hard code the same. This make sure we use the right value
when masking pmd entries and also while checking pmd_bad

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:15 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
6a119eae94 powerpc/mm: Add a _PAGE_PTE bit
For a pte entry we will have _PAGE_PTE set. Our pte page
address have a minimum alignment requirement of HUGEPD_SHIFT_MASK + 1.
We use the lower 7 bits to indicate hugepd. ie.

For pmd and pgd we can find:
1) _PAGE_PTE set pte -> indicate PTE
2) bits [2..6] non zero -> indicate hugepd.
   They also encode the size. We skip bit 1 (_PAGE_PRESENT).
3) othewise pointer to next table.

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:14 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
e34aa03ca4 powerpc/mm: Move THP headers around
We support THP only with book3s_64 and 64K page size. Move
THP details to hash64-64k.h to clarify the same.

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:14 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
26a344aea4 powerpc/mm: Move hugetlb related headers
W.r.t hugetlb, we support two format for pmd. With book3s_64 and
64K linux page size, we can have pte at the pmd level. Hence we
don't need to support hugepd there. For everything else hugepd
is supported and pmd_huge is (0).

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:13 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
40e8550afc powerpc/mm: Move WIMG update to helper.
Only difference here is, we apply the WIMG mapping early, so rflags
passed to updatepp will also be changed.

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:13 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
c6a3c495f0 powerpc/mm: Add helper for converting pte bit to hpte bits
Instead of open coding it in multiple code paths, export the helper
and add more documentation. Also make sure we don't make assumption
regarding pte bit position

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:12 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
a43c0eb836 powerpc/mm: Convert 4k insert from asm to C
This is similar to 64K insert. May be we want to consolidate

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:12 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
89ff725051 powerpc/mm: Convert __hash_page_64K to C
Convert from asm to C

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:11 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
227fdbee5a powerpc/mm: Increase the width of #define
No real change, only style changes

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:11 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
506b863c68 powerpc/mm: Remove pte_val usage for the second half of pgtable_t
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:10 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
bf680d5160 powerpc/mm: Don't track subpage valid bit in pte_t
This free up 11 bits in pte_t. In the later patch we also change
the pte_t format so that we can start supporting migration pte
at pmd level. We now track 4k subpage valid bit as below

If we have _PAGE_COMBO set, we override the _PAGE_F_GIX_SHIFT
and _PAGE_F_SECOND. Together we have 4 bits, each of them
used to indicate whether any of the 4 4k subpage in that group
is valid. ie,

[ group 1 bit ]   [ group 2 bit ]  ..... [ group 4 ]
[ subpage 1 - 4]  [ subpage 5- 8]  ..... [ subpage 13 - 16]

We still track each 4k subpage slot number and secondary hash
information in the second half of pgtable_t. Removing the subpage
tracking have some significant overhead on aim9 and ebizzy benchmark and
to support THP with 4K subpage, we do need a pgtable_t of 4096 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:10 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
106713a145 powerpc/mm: Remove the dependency on pte bit position in asm code
We should not expect pte bit position in asm code. Simply
by moving part of that to C

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:10 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
91f1da9979 powerpc/mm: Convert 4k hash insert to C
Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:09 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
17ed9e3192 powerpc/booke: Move nohash headers
Move the booke related headers below booke/32 or booke/64

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:09 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
1ca7212932 powerpc/mm: Move PTE bits from generic functions to hash64 functions.
functions which operate on pte bits are moved to hash*.h and other
generic functions are moved to pgtable.h

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:08 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
371352ca0e powerpc/mm: Move hash64 PTE bits from book3s/64/pgtable.h to hash.h
This enables us to keep hash64 related bits together, and makes it easy
to follow.

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:08 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
f281b5d50c powerpc/mm: Don't use pmd_val, pud_val and pgd_val as lvalue
We convert them static inline function here as we did with pte_val in
the previous patch

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:07 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
10bd3808df powerpc/mm: Don't use pte_val as lvalue
We also convert few #define to static inline in this patch for better
type checking

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:07 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
b0412ea94b powerpc/mm: Drop pte-common.h from BOOK3S 64
We copy only needed PTE bits define from pte-common.h to respective
hash related header. This should greatly simply later patches in which
we are going to change the pte format for hash config

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:06 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
ee4889c7bc powerpc/mm: Don't have generic headers introduce functions touching pte bits
We are going to drop pte_common.h in the later patch. The idea is to
enable hash code not require to define all PTE bits. Having PTE bits
defined in pte_common.h made the code unnecessarily complex.

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:06 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
cbbb8683fb powerpc/mm: Delete booke bits from book3s
We also move __ASSEMBLY__ towards the end of header. This avoid
having #ifndef __ASSEMBLY___ all over the header

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:05 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
ab537dca2f powerpc/mm: Move hash specific pte width and other defines to book3s
This further make a copy of pte defines to book3s/64/hash*.h. This
remove the dependency on pgtable-ppc64-4k.h and pgtable-ppc64-64k.h

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:05 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
3dfcb315d8 powerpc/mm: make a separate copy for book3s
In this patch we do:
cp pgtable-ppc32.h book3s/32/pgtable.h
cp pgtable-ppc64.h book3s/64/pgtable.h

This enable us to do further changes to hash specific config.
We will change the page table format for 64bit hash in later patches.

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:05 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
26b6a3d9bb powerpc/mm: move pte headers to book3s directory
Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:04 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
0863d7f213 powerpc/mm: Fix infinite loop in hash fault with 4K page size
This is the same bug we fixed as part of 09567e7fd4
("powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings"). Please
check that for details. The difference here is that faults were
happening on a 4K page at an address previously mapped by hugetlb.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-14 15:19:04 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
db1231dcdb powerpc: Fix DSCR inheritance over fork()
Two DSCR tests have a hack in them:

	/*
	 * XXX: Force a context switch out so that DSCR
	 * current value is copied into the thread struct
	 * which is required for the child to inherit the
	 * changed value.
	 */
	sleep(1);

We should not be working around this in the testcase, it is a kernel bug.
Fix it by copying the current DSCR to the child, instead of what we
had in the thread struct at last context switch.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-10 21:11:13 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
20dbe67062 powerpc: Call restore_sprs() before _switch()
commit 152d523e63 ("powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs()
and restore_sprs()") moved the restore of SPRs after the call to _switch().

There is an issue with this approach - new tasks do not return through
_switch(), they are set up by copy_thread() to directly return through
ret_from_fork() or ret_from_kernel_thread(). This means restore_sprs() is
not getting called for new tasks.

Fix this by moving restore_sprs() before _switch().

Fixes: 152d523e63 ("powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs() and restore_sprs()")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-10 21:10:55 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
d64d02ce4e powerpc: Call check_if_tm_restore_required() in enable_kernel_*()
Commit a0e72cf12b ("powerpc: Create msr_check_and_{set,clear}()")
removed a call to check_if_tm_restore_required() in the
enable_kernel_*() functions. Add them back in.

Fixes: a0e72cf12b ("powerpc: Create msr_check_and_{set,clear}()")
Reported-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-10 20:10:53 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
d1e1cf2e38 powerpc: clean up asm/switch_to.h
Remove a bunch of unnecessary fallback functions and group
things in a more logical way.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-02 19:34:41 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
f3d885ccba powerpc: Rearrange __switch_to()
Most of __switch_to() is housekeeping, TLB batching, timekeeping etc.
Move these away from the more complex and critical context switching
code.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-02 19:34:41 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
579e633e76 powerpc: create flush_all_to_thread()
Create a single function that flushes everything (FP, VMX, VSX, SPE).
Doing this all at once means we only do one MSR write.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-02 19:34:40 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
c208505900 powerpc: create giveup_all()
Create a single function that gives everything up (FP, VMX, VSX, SPE).
Doing this all at once means we only do one MSR write.

A context switch microbenchmark using yield():

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c

./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp --altivec --vector 0 0

shows an improvement of 3% on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[mpe: giveup_all() needs to be EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-02 19:34:26 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
1f2e25b2d5 powerpc: Remove fp_enable() and vec_enable(), use msr_check_and_{set, clear}()
More consolidation of our MSR available bit handling.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:26 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
3eb5d5888d powerpc: Add ppc_strict_facility_enable boot option
Add a boot option that strictly manages the MSR unavailable bits.
This catches kernel uses of FP/Altivec/SPE that would otherwise
corrupt user state.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:26 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
dc4fbba11e powerpc: Create disable_kernel_{fp,altivec,vsx,spe}()
The enable_kernel_*() functions leave the relevant MSR bits enabled
until we exit the kernel sometime later. Create disable versions
that wrap the kernel use of FP, Altivec VSX or SPE.

While we don't want to disable it normally for performance reasons
(MSR writes are slow), it will be used for a debug boot option that
does this and catches bad uses in other areas of the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
a0e72cf12b powerpc: Create msr_check_and_{set,clear}()
Create helper functions to set and clear MSR bits after first
checking if they are already set. Grouping them will make it
easy to avoid the MSR writes in a subsequent optimisation.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
1552cd703c crypto: vmx: Only call enable_kernel_vsx()
With the recent change to enable_kernel_vsx(), we no longer need
to call enable_kernel_fp() and enable_kernel_altivec().

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
a7d623d4d0 powerpc: Move part of giveup_vsx into c
Move the MSR modification into c. Removing it from the assembly
function will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them
up.

Check the FP and VMX bits before calling the relevant giveup_*()
function. This makes giveup_vsx() and flush_vsx_to_thread() perform
more like their sister functions, and allows us to use
flush_vsx_to_thread() in the signal code.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
98da581e08 powerpc: Move part of giveup_fpu,altivec,spe into c
Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from
the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes
by batching them up.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check into these new functions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
b51b1153d0 powerpc: Remove NULL task struct pointer checks in FP and vector code
We used to allow giveup_*() to be called with a NULL task struct
pointer. Now those cases are handled in the caller we can remove
the checks. We can also remove giveup_altivec_notask() which is also
unused.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
611b0e5c19 powerpc: Create mtmsrd_isync()
mtmsrd_isync() will do an mtmsrd followed by an isync on older
processors. On newer processors we avoid the isync via a feature fixup.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:25 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
b86fd2bd03 powerpc: Simplify TM restore checks
Instead of having multiple giveup_*_maybe_transactional() functions,
separate out the TM check into a new function called
check_if_tm_restore_required().

This will make it easier to optimise the giveup_*() functions in a
subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:24 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
af1bbc3dd3 powerpc: Remove UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations
The UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations were written
back when SMP was not common, and neither glibc nor gcc used vector
instructions. Now SMP is very common, glibc aggressively uses vector
instructions and gcc autovectorises.

We want to add new optimisations that apply to both UP and SMP, but
in preparation for that remove these UP only optimisations.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:24 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
68bfa962bf powerpc: Remove redundant mflr in _switch
No need to execute mflr twice.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:24 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
152d523e63 powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs() and restore_sprs()
Move all our context switch SPR save and restore code into two
helpers. We do a few optimisations:

- Group all mfsprs and all mtsprs. In many cases an mtspr sets a
scoreboarding bit that an mfspr waits on, so the current practise of
mfspr A; mtspr A; mfpsr B; mtspr B is the worst scheduling we can
do.

- SPR writes are slow, so check that the value is changing before
writing it.

A context switch microbenchmark using yield():

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c

./context_switch2 --test=yield 0 0

shows an improvement of almost 10% on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:24 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
af72ab646a powerpc: Don't disable MSR bits in do_load_up_transact_*() functions
Similar to the non TM load_up_*() functions, don't disable the MSR
bits on the way out.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:24 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
07e45c120c powerpc: Don't disable kernel FP/VMX/VSX MSR bits on context switch
Writing the MSR is slow, so we want to avoid it whenever possible.

A subsequent patch will add a debug option that strictly manages the
FP/VMX/VSX unavailable bits. For now just remove it, matching what
we do in other areas of the kernel (eg enable_kernel_altivec()).

A context switch microbenchmark using yield():

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c

./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp 0 0

shows an improvement of almost 3% on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-01 13:52:24 +11:00