Static branch hints override dynamic branch prediction on recent
POWER CPUs. We should only use them when we are overwhelmingly
sure of the direction.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Based on Matthew Wilcox's patches for other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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
...
Align the hot loops in our assembly implementation of memset()
and backwards_memcpy().
backwards_memcpy() is called from tcp_v4_rcv(), so we might
want to optimise this a little more.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
memmove may be called from module code copy_pages(btrfs), and it may
call memcpy, which may call back to C code, so it needs to use
_GLOBAL_TOC to set up r2 correctly.
This fixes following error when I tried to boot an le guest:
Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000073f97210]
pc: c000000000015004: enable_kernel_altivec+0x24/0x80
lr: c000000000058fbc: enter_vmx_copy+0x3c/0x60
sp: c000000073f97490
msr: 8000000002009033
dar: d000000001d50170
dsisr: 40000000
current = 0xc0000000734c0000
paca = 0xc00000000fff0000 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01
pid = 815, comm = mktemp
enter ? for help
[c000000073f974f0] c000000000058fbc enter_vmx_copy+0x3c/0x60
[c000000073f97510] c000000000057d34 memcpy_power7+0x274/0x840
[c000000073f97610] d000000001c3179c copy_pages+0xfc/0x110 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97660] d000000001c3c248 memcpy_extent_buffer+0xe8/0x160 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97700] d000000001be4be8 setup_items_for_insert+0x208/0x4a0 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97820] d000000001be50b4 btrfs_insert_empty_items+0xf4/0x140 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97890] d000000001bfed30 insert_with_overflow+0x70/0x180 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97900] d000000001bff174 btrfs_insert_dir_item+0x114/0x2f0 [btrfs]
[c000000073f979a0] d000000001c1f92c btrfs_add_link+0x10c/0x370 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97a40] d000000001c20e94 btrfs_create+0x204/0x270 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97b00] c00000000026d438 vfs_create+0x178/0x210
[c000000073f97b50] c000000000270a70 do_last+0x9f0/0xe90
[c000000073f97c20] c000000000271010 path_openat+0x100/0x810
[c000000073f97ce0] c000000000272ea8 do_filp_open+0x58/0xd0
[c000000073f97dc0] c00000000025ade8 do_sys_open+0x1b8/0x300
[c000000073f97e30] c00000000000a008 syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function
descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address.
Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY, the option is badly named and only does two
things:
- It wraps the MMU segment table code. With feature fixups there is
little downside to compiling this in.
- It uses the newer mtocrf instruction in various assembly functions.
Instead of making this a compile option just do it at runtime via
a feature fixup.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
mtocrf is a faster single-field mtcrf (move to condition register
fields) instruction available in POWER4 and later processors. It can
make quite a difference in performance on some implementations, so use
it for CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY builds.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This doesn't change any code, just renames things so we consistently
have foo_32.c and foo_64.c where we have separate 32- and 64-bit
versions.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Anton Blanchard