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Ulrich Weigand 752a6422fe powerpc: Fix unsafe accesses to parameter area in ELFv2
Some of the assembler files in lib/ make use of the fact that in the
ELFv1 ABI, the caller guarantees to provide stack space to save the
parameter registers r3 ... r10.  This guarantee is no longer present
in ELFv2 for functions that have no variable argument list and no
more than 8 arguments.

Change the affected routines to temporarily store registers in the
red zone and/or the top of their own stack frame (in the space
provided to save r31 .. r29, which is actually not used in these
routines).

In opal_query_takeover, simply always allocate a stack frame;
the routine is not performance critical.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2014-04-23 10:05:24 +10:00
Anton Blanchard b37c10d128 powerpc: Fix ABIv2 issues with stack offsets in assembly code
Fix STK_PARAM and use it instead of hardcoding ABIv1 offsets.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2014-04-23 10:05:23 +10:00
Anton Blanchard b1576fec7f powerpc: No need to use dot symbols when branching to a function
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>
2014-04-23 10:05:16 +10:00
Michael Neuling 280a5ba22c powerpc/pseries: Improve stream generation comments in copypage/user
No code changes, just documenting what's happening a little better.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-01 08:29:26 +10:00
Michael Neuling 44ce6a5ee7 powerpc: Merge STK_REG/PARAM/FRAMESIZE
Merge the defines of STACKFRAMESIZE, STK_REG, STK_PARAM from different
places.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10 19:18:03 +10:00
Michael Neuling c75df6f96c powerpc: Fix usage of register macros getting ready for %r0 change
Anything that uses a constructed instruction (ie. from ppc-opcode.h),
need to use the new R0 macro, as %r0 is not going to work.

Also convert usages of macros where we are just determining an offset
(usually for a load/store), like:
	std	r14,STK_REG(r14)(r1)
Can't use STK_REG(r14) as %r14 doesn't work in the STK_REG macro since
it's just calculating an offset.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10 19:17:55 +10:00
Anton Blanchard fde69282b7 powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_page using VMX and enhanced prefetch
Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_page using VMX and enhanced
prefetch instructions. We use enhanced prefetch hints to prefetch
both the load and store side. We copy a cacheline at a time and
fall back to regular loads and stores if we are unable to use VMX
(eg we are in an interrupt).

The following microbenchmark was used to assess the impact of
the patch:

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

We test MAP_PRIVATE page faults across a 1GB file, 100 times:

# time ./page_fault_file -p -l 1G -i 100

Before: 22.25s
After:  18.89s

17% faster

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03 14:14:44 +10:00