Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/32be: use stmw/lmw for registers save/restore in asm

[Michael Ellerman]

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:
> arch/powerpc/Makefile activates -mmultiple on BE PPC32 configs
> in order to use multiple word instructions in functions entry/exit

True, though that could be a lot simpler because the MULTIPLEWORD value
is only used for PPC32, which is always big endian. I'll send a patch
for that.

> The patch does the same for the asm parts, for consistency
>
> On processors like the 8xx on which insn fetching is pretty slow,
> this speeds up registers save/restore

OK. I've always heard that they should be avoided, but that's coming
from 64-bit land.

I guess we've been enabling this for all 32-bit targets for ever so it
must be a reasonable option.

> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  v2: Swapped both patches in the serie to reduce number of impacted
>      lines and added the same modification in ppc_save_regs()
>
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h  |  5 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S          | 10 ++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_save_regs.S |  4 ++++
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> index 13f7f4c0e1ea..4bb765d0b758 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> @@ -80,11 +80,16 @@ END_FW_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR)
>  #else
>  #define SAVE_GPR(n, base)	stw	n,GPR0+4*(n)(base)
>  #define REST_GPR(n, base)	lwz	n,GPR0+4*(n)(base)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> +#define SAVE_NVGPRS(base)	stmw	13, GPR0+4*13(base)
> +#define REST_NVGPRS(base)	lmw	13, GPR0+4*13(base)
> +#else
>  #define SAVE_NVGPRS(base)	SAVE_GPR(13, base); SAVE_8GPRS(14, base); \
>  				SAVE_10GPRS(22, base)
>  #define REST_NVGPRS(base)	REST_GPR(13, base); REST_8GPRS(14, base); \
>  				REST_10GPRS(22, base)

There is no 32-bit little endian, so this is basically dead code now.

Maybe there'll be a 32-bit LE port one day, but if so we can put the
code back then.

So I'll just drop the else case.

>  #endif
> +#endif
>  
>  #define SAVE_2GPRS(n, base)	SAVE_GPR(n, base); SAVE_GPR(n+1, base)
>  #define SAVE_4GPRS(n, base)	SAVE_2GPRS(n, base); SAVE_2GPRS(n+2, base)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
> index 746ee0320ad4..a316d90a5c26 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
> @@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ _GLOBAL(setjmp)
>  	PPC_STL	r0,0(r3)
>  	PPC_STL	r1,SZL(r3)
>  	PPC_STL	r2,2*SZL(r3)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC32) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)

And this could just be:

#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32

> +	mfcr	r12
> +	stmw	r12, 3*SZL(r3)
> +#else
>  	mfcr	r0
>  	PPC_STL	r0,3*SZL(r3)
>  	PPC_STL	r13,4*SZL(r3)
> @@ -70,10 +74,15 @@ _GLOBAL(setjmp)
>  	PPC_STL	r29,20*SZL(r3)
>  	PPC_STL	r30,21*SZL(r3)
>  	PPC_STL	r31,22*SZL(r3)
> +#endif

It's a pity to end up with this basically split in half by ifdefs for
32/64-bit, but maybe we can clean that up later.

cheers