linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/lib/mem_64.S, branch v5.0

powerpc/64: Remove static branch hints from memset()

2018-09-17T11:17:25+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/string: Implement optimized memset variants

2017-08-17T13:04:35+00:00

Based on Matthew Wilcox's patches for other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00

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
  ...

powerpc/64: Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy()

2016-10-04T05:08:19+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

ppc: move exports to definitions

2016-08-08T03:50:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

powerpc: use _GLOBAL_TOC for memmove

2014-07-22T05:56:04+00:00

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

powerpc: No need to use dot symbols when branching to a function

2014-04-23T00:05:16+00:00

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

powerpc: Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY

2012-04-30T05:37:26+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

[POWERPC] Use mtocrf instruction in asm when CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY=y

2007-04-12T17:55:13+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Rename files to have consistent _32/_64 suffixes

2005-10-10T11:52:43+00:00

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