Re: [RFC v6 21/62] powerpc: introduce execute-only pkey
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Aug 01 2017 - 02:46:30 EST
Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
...
>> +
>> + /* We got one, store it and use it from here on out */
>> + if (need_to_set_mm_pkey)
>> + mm->context.execute_only_pkey = execute_only_pkey;
>> + return execute_only_pkey;
>> +}
>
> If you follow the code flow in __execute_only_pkey, the AMR and UAMOR
> are read 3 times in total, and AMR is written twice. IAMR is read and
> written twice. Since they are SPRs and access to them is slow (or isn't
> it?),
SPRs read/writes are slow, but they're not *that* slow in comparison to
a system call (which I think is where this code is being called?).
So we should try to avoid too many SPR read/writes, but at the same time
we can accept more than the minimum if it makes the code much easier to
follow.
cheers