Re: [PATCH v5] powerpc/irq: inline call_do_irq() and call_do_softirq() on PPC32

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 05:20:04PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> call_do_irq() and call_do_softirq() are simple enough to be
> worth inlining.
> 
> Inlining them avoids an mflr/mtlr pair plus a save/reload on stack.
> It also allows GCC to keep the saved ksp_limit in an nonvolatile reg.
> 
> This is inspired from S390 arch. Several other arches do more or
> less the same. The way sparc arch does seems odd thought.

Any reason you only do this for 32-bit and not 64-bit as well?