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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
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.