blackbird-op-linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S, branch v4.9.3

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek: - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro. This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is working on a patch to fix this. Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely change prototypes. - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick Piggin - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan. - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me. * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits) initramfs: Escape colons in depfile ppc: there is no clear_pages to export powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search ia64: move exports to definitions sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h sparc: move exports to definitions ppc: move exports to definitions arm: move exports to definitions s390: move exports to definitions m68k: move exports to definitions alpha: move exports to actual definitions x86: move exports to actual definitions ...

powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec}

2016-10-04T09:33:16+00:00

Previous rework of TM code leaves these functions unused Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state

2016-10-04T09:33:16+00:00

Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

ppc: move exports to definitions

2016-08-08T03:50:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without giving it up

2016-03-02T12:34:49+00:00

This patch adds the ability to be able to save the FPU registers to the thread struct without giving up (disabling the facility) next time the process returns to userspace. This patch optimises the thread copy path (as a result of a fork() or clone()) so that the parent thread can return to userspace with hot registers avoiding a possibly pointless reload of FPU register state. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Restore FPU/VEC/VSX if previously used

2016-03-02T12:34:48+00:00

Currently the FPU, VEC and VSX facilities are lazily loaded. This is not a problem unless a process is using these facilities. Modern versions of GCC are very good at automatically vectorising code, new and modernised workloads make use of floating point and vector facilities, even the kernel makes use of vectorised memcpy. All this combined greatly increases the cost of a syscall since the kernel uses the facilities sometimes even in syscall fast-path making it increasingly common for a thread to take an *_unavailable exception soon after a syscall, not to mention potentially taking all three. The obvious overcompensation to this problem is to simply always load all the facilities on every exit to userspace. Loading up all FPU, VEC and VSX registers every time can be expensive and if a workload does avoid using them, it should not be forced to incur this penalty. An 8bit counter is used to detect if the registers have been used in the past and the registers are always loaded until the value wraps to back to zero. Several versions of the assembly in entry_64.S were tested: 1. Always calling C. 2. Performing a common case check and then calling C. 3. A complex check in asm. After some benchmarking it was determined that avoiding C in the common case is a performance benefit (option 2). The full check in asm (option 3) greatly complicated that codepath for a negligible performance gain and the trade-off was deemed not worth it. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur [mpe: Move load_vec in the struct to fill an existing hole, reword change log] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman fixup

powerpc: Remove fp_enable() and vec_enable(), use msr_check_and_{set, clear}()

2015-12-01T02:52:26+00:00

More consolidation of our MSR available bit handling. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Move part of giveup_fpu,altivec,spe into c

2015-12-01T02:52:25+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Remove NULL task struct pointer checks in FP and vector code

2015-12-01T02:52:25+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Remove UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations

2015-12-01T02:52:24+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman