Kernel created user threads start similarly to kernel threads in that
they call a kernel function after first returning from _switch, so
they share ret_from_kernel_thread for this. Kernel threads never return
from that function though, whereas user threads often do (although some
don't, e.g., IO threads).
Split these startup functions in two, and catch kernel threads that
improperly return from their function. This is intended to make the
complicated code a little bit easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230325122904.2375060-7-npiggin@gmail.com
The kernel thread path in copy_thread creates a user interrupt frame on
stack and stores the function and arg parameters there, and
ret_from_kernel_thread loads them. This is a slightly confusing way to
overload that frame. Non-volatile registers are loaded from the switch
frame, so the parameters can be stored there. The user interrupt frame
is now only used by user threads when they return to user.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230325122904.2375060-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Using a 32-bit constant for this marker allows it to be loaded with
two ALU instructions, like 32-bit. This avoids a TOC entry and a
TOC load that depends on the r2 value that has just been loaded from
the PACA.
This changes the value for 32-bit as well, so both have the same
value in the low 4 bytes and 64-bit has 0 in the top bytes.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926034057.2360083-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Change system_call_exception arguments to pass a pointer to a stack
frame container caller state, as well as the original r0, which
determines the number of the syscall. This has been observed to yield
improved performance to passing them by registers, circumventing the
need to allocate a stack frame.
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Retain clearing of high bits of args for compat tasks]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-21-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
Restoring the register state of the interrupted thread involves issuing
a large number of predictable loads to the kernel stack frame. Issue the
REST_GPR{,S} macros to clearly signal when this is happening, and bunch
together restores at the end of the interrupt handler where the saved
value is not consumed earlier in the handler code.
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-6-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
This reverts commit 8875f47b76 ("powerpc/syscall: Save r3 in regs->orig_r3
").
Save caller's original r3 state to the kernel stackframe before entering
system_call_exception. This allows for user registers to be cleared by
the time system_call_exception is entered, reducing the influence of
user registers on speculation within the kernel.
Prior to this commit, orig_r3 was saved at the beginning of
system_call_exception. Instead, save orig_r3 while the user value is
still live in r3.
Also replicate this early save in 32-bit. A similar save was removed in
commit 6f76a01173 ("powerpc/syscall: implement system call entry/exit
logic in C for PPC32") when 32-bit adopted system_call_exception. Revert
its removal of orig_r3 saves.
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-3-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
Calling 'mfsr' to get the content of segment registers is heavy,
in addition it requires clearing of the 'reserved' bits.
In order to avoid this operation, save it in mm context and in
thread struct.
The saved sr0 is the one used by kernel, this means that on
locking entry it can be used as is.
For unlocking, the only thing to do is to clear SR_NX.
This improves null_syscall selftest by 12 cycles, ie 4%.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b02baf2ed8f09bad910dfaeeb7353b2ae6830525.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
When interrupt and syscall entries where converted to C, KUEP locking
and unlocking was also converted. It improved performance by unrolling
the loop, and allowed easily implementing boot time deactivation of
KUEP.
However, null_syscall selftest shows that KUEP is still heavy
(361 cycles with KUEP, 212 cycles without).
A way to improve more is to group 'mtsr's together, instead of
repeating 'addi' + 'mtsr' several times.
In order to do that, more registers need to be available. In C, GCC
will always be able to provide the requested number of registers, but
at the cost of saving some data on the stack, which is counter
performant here.
So let's do it in assembly, when we have full control of which
register can be used. It also has the advantage of locking earlier
and unlocking later and it helps GCC generating less tricky code.
The only drawback is to make boot time deactivation less straight
forward and require 'hand' instruction patching.
Group 'mtsr's by 4.
With this change, null_syscall selftest reports 336 cycles. Without
the change it was 361 cycles, that's a 7% reduction.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/115cb279e9b9948dfd93a065e047081c59e3a2a6.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Until now, non volatile registers were restored everytime they
were saved, ie using EXC_XFER_STD meant saving and restoring
them while EXC_XFER_LITE meant neither saving not restoring them.
Now that they are always saved, EXC_XFER_STD means to restore
them and EXC_XFER_LITE means to not restore them.
Most of the users of EXC_XFER_STD only need to retrieve the
non volatile registers. For them there is no need to restore
the non volatile registers as they have not been modified.
Only very few exceptions require non volatile registers restore.
Opencode the few places which require saving of non volatile
registers.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d1cb12d8023cc6afc1f07150565571373c04945c.1615552867.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
On 40x and 8xx, kernel text is pinned.
On book3s/32, kernel text is mapped by BATs.
Enable instruction translation at the same time as data translation, it
makes things simpler.
In syscall handler, MSR_RI can also be set at the same time because
srr0/srr1 are already saved and r1 is set properly.
On booke, translation is always on, so at the end all PPC32
have translation on early. Just update msr.
Also update comment in power_save_ppc32_restore().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5269c7e5f5d2117358af3a89744d75a116be27b0.1615552867.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Ensure normal exception handler are able to manage stuff with
MMU enabled. For that we use CONFIG_VMAP_STACK related code
allthough there is no intention to really activate CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
on powerpc 40x for the moment.
40x uses SPRN_DEAR instead of SPRN_DAR and SPRN_ESR instead of
SPRN_DSISR. Take it into account in common macros.
40x MSR value doesn't fit on 15 bits, use LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() in
common macros that will be used also with 40x.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/01963af2b83037bca270d7bf1336ffcf35da8282.1615552866.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
