powerpc: Don't clobber f0/vs0 during fp|altivec register save

commit 5e1d824f9a283cbf90f25241b66d1f69adb3835b upstream.

During floating point and vector save to thread data f0/vs0 are
clobbered by

powerpc: Don't clobber f0/vs0 during fp|altivec register save

commit 5e1d824f9a283cbf90f25241b66d1f69adb3835b upstream.

During floating point and vector save to thread data f0/vs0 are
clobbered by the FPSCR/VSCR store routine. This has been obvserved to
lead to userspace register corruption and application data corruption
with io-uring.

Fix it by restoring f0/vs0 after FPSCR/VSCR store has completed for
all the FP, altivec, VMX register save paths.

Tested under QEMU in kvm mode, running on a Talos II workstation with
dual POWER9 DD2.2 CPUs.

Additional detail (mpe):

Typically save_fpu() is called from __giveup_fpu() which saves the FP
regs and also *turns off FP* in the tasks MSR, meaning the kernel will
reload the FP regs from the thread struct before letting the task use FP
again. So in that case save_fpu() is free to clobber f0 because the FP
regs no longer hold live values for the task.

There is another case though, which is the path via:
sys_clone()
...
copy_process()
dup_task_struct()
arch_dup_task_struct()
flush_all_to_thread()
save_all()

That path saves the FP regs but leaves them live. That's meant as an
optimisation for a process that's using FP/VSX and then calls fork(),
leaving the regs live means the parent process doesn't have to take a
fault after the fork to get its FP regs back. The optimisation was added
in commit 8792468da5e1 ("powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without
giving it up").

That path does clobber f0, but f0 is volatile across function calls,
and typically programs reach copy_process() from userspace via a syscall
wrapper function. So in normal usage f0 being clobbered across a
syscall doesn't cause visible data corruption.

But there is now a new path, because io-uring can call copy_process()
via create_io_thread() from the signal handling path. That's OK if the
signal is handled as part of syscall return, but it's not OK if the
signal is handled due to some other interrupt.

That path is:

interrupt_return_srr_user()
interrupt_exit_user_prepare()
interrupt_exit_user_prepare_main()
do_notify_resume()
get_signal()
task_work_run()
create_worker_cb()
create_io_worker()
copy_process()
dup_task_struct()
arch_dup_task_struct()
flush_all_to_thread()
save_all()
if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & MSR_FP)
save_fpu()
# f0 is clobbered and potentially live in userspace

Note the above discussion applies equally to save_altivec().

Fixes: 8792468da5e1 ("powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without giving it up")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/480932026.45576726.1699374859845.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/480221078.47953493.1700206777956.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com/
Tested-by: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
[mpe: Reword change log to describe exact path of corruption & other minor tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/1921539696.48534988.1700407082933.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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powerpc: replace #include <asm/export.h> with #include <linux/export.h>

Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
deprecated <asm/export.h>, which is now a wrapper of <linu

powerpc: replace #include <asm/export.h> with #include <linux/export.h>

Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
deprecated <asm/export.h>, which is now a wrapper of <linux/export.h>.

Replace #include <asm/export.h> with #include <linux/export.h>.

After all the <asm/export.h> lines are converted, <asm/export.h> and
<asm-generic/export.h> will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
[mpe: Fixup selftests that stub asm/export.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230806150954.394189-2-masahiroy@kernel.org

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powerpc/64s/interrupt: handle MSR EE and RI in interrupt entry wrapper

The mtmsrd to enable MSR[RI] can be combined with the mtmsrd to enable
MSR[EE] in interrupt entry code, for those interrupts wh

powerpc/64s/interrupt: handle MSR EE and RI in interrupt entry wrapper

The mtmsrd to enable MSR[RI] can be combined with the mtmsrd to enable
MSR[EE] in interrupt entry code, for those interrupts which enable EE.
This helps performance of important synchronous interrupts (e.g., page
faults).

This is similar to what commit dd152f70bdc1 ("powerpc/64s: system call
avoid setting MSR[RI] until we set MSR[EE]") does for system calls.

Do this by enabling EE and RI together at the beginning of the entry
wrapper if PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS is clear, and only enabling RI if it is
set.

Asynchronous interrupts set PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS, but synchronous ones
leave it unchanged, so by default they always get EE=1 unless they have
interrupted a caller that is hard disabled. When the sync interrupt
later calls interrupt_cond_local_irq_enable(), it will not require
another mtmsrd because MSR[EE] was already enabled here.

This avoids one mtmsrd L=1 for synchronous interrupts on 64s, which
saves about 20 cycles on POWER9. And for kernel-mode interrupts, both
synchronous and asynchronous, this saves an additional 40 cycles due to
the mtmsrd being moved ahead of mfspr SPRN_AMR, which prevents a SPR
scoreboard stall.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210922145452.352571-3-npiggin@gmail.com

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powerpc/32: Remove unneccessary calculations in load_up_{fpu/altivec}

No need to re-read SPRN_THREAD, we can calculate thread address
from current (r2).

And remove a reload of value 1 into r4 as r4

powerpc/32: Remove unneccessary calculations in load_up_{fpu/altivec}

No need to re-read SPRN_THREAD, we can calculate thread address
from current (r2).

And remove a reload of value 1 into r4 as r4 is already 1.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c04cce578b97a76a9e69a096698b1d89f721768a.1629276437.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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powerpc/64s: avoid reloading (H)SRR registers if they are still valid

When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where
it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime,

powerpc/64s: avoid reloading (H)SRR registers if they are still valid

When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where
it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return
address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers
when returning from interrupt.

Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR
registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when
using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when
adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context
switching (which changes the return address and MSR).

This improves the performance of interrupt returns.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com

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powerpc/32: Always enable data translation in exception prolog

If the code can use a stack in vm area, it can also use a
stack in linear space.

Simplify code by removing old non VMAP stack code on

powerpc/32: Always enable data translation in exception prolog

If the code can use a stack in vm area, it can also use a
stack in linear space.

Simplify code by removing old non VMAP stack code on PPC32.

That means the data translation is now re-enabled early in
exception prolog in all cases, not only when using VMAP stacks.

While we are touching EXCEPTION_PROLOG macros, remove the
unused for_rtas parameter in EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7cd6440c60a7e8f4f035b245c57720f51e225aae.1615552866.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()

Those macros are now empty at all time. Drop them.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe

powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()

Those macros are now empty at all time. Drop them.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7990bb63fc53e460bfa94f8040184881d9e6fbc3.1601362098.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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powerpc/fpu: Drop cvt_fd() and cvt_df()

Those two functions have been unused since commit identified below.
Drop them.

Fixes: 31bfdb036f12 ("powerpc: Use instruction emulation infrastructure to han

powerpc/fpu: Drop cvt_fd() and cvt_df()

Those two functions have been unused since commit identified below.
Drop them.

Fixes: 31bfdb036f12 ("powerpc: Use instruction emulation infrastructure to handle alignment faults")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d5641ada199b8dd2af16ad00a66084cf974f2704.1596716418.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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powerpc: re-initialise lazy FPU/VEC counters on every fault

When a FP/VEC/VSX unavailable fault loads registers and enables the
facility in the MSR, re-set the lazy restore counters to 1 rather
than

powerpc: re-initialise lazy FPU/VEC counters on every fault

When a FP/VEC/VSX unavailable fault loads registers and enables the
facility in the MSR, re-set the lazy restore counters to 1 rather
than incrementing them so every fault gets the same number of
restores before the next fault.

This probably shouldn't be a practical change because if a lazy counter
was non-zero then it should have been restored and would not cause a
fault when userspace tries to access it. However the code and comment
implies otherwise so that's misleading and unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200623234139.2262227-3-npiggin@gmail.com

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mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h

The replacement of <asm/pgrable.h> with <linux/pgtable.h> made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes. Fix this up with t

mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h

The replacement of <asm/pgrable.h> with <linux/pgtable.h> made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes. Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.

import sys
import re

if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
print "USAGE: %s <file> <header>" % (sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(1)

hdr_to_move="#include <linux/%s>" % sys.argv[2]
moved = False
in_hdrs = False

with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
lines = f.readlines()
for _line in lines:
line = _line.rstrip('
')
if line == hdr_to_move:
continue
if line.startswith("#include <linux/"):
in_hdrs = True
elif not moved and in_hdrs:
moved = True
print hdr_to_move
print line

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h

The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgta

mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h

The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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powerpc/32: Blacklist functions running with MMU disabled for kprobe

kprobe does not handle events happening in real mode, all
functions running with MMU disabled have to be blacklisted.

Signed-off

powerpc/32: Blacklist functions running with MMU disabled for kprobe

kprobe does not handle events happening in real mode, all
functions running with MMU disabled have to be blacklisted.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3bf57066d05518644dee0840af69d36ab5086729.1585670437.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr

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powerpc/32s: Enable CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

A few changes to retrieve DAR and DSISR from struct regs
instead of retrieving them directly, as they may have
changed due to a TLB miss.

Also modifies hash_pa

powerpc/32s: Enable CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

A few changes to retrieve DAR and DSISR from struct regs
instead of retrieving them directly, as they may have
changed due to a TLB miss.

Also modifies hash_page() and friends to work with virtual
data addresses instead of physical ones. Same on load_up_fpu()
and load_up_altivec().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[mpe: Fix tovirt_vmstack call in head_32.S to fix CHRP build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2e2509a242fd5f3e23df4a06530c18060c4d321e.1576916812.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of th

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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powerpc/64: Don't trace code that runs with the soft irq mask unreconciled

"Reconciling" in terms of interrupt handling, is to bring the soft irq
mask state in to synch with the hardware, after an i

powerpc/64: Don't trace code that runs with the soft irq mask unreconciled

"Reconciling" in terms of interrupt handling, is to bring the soft irq
mask state in to synch with the hardware, after an interrupt causes
MSR[EE] to be cleared (while the soft mask may be enabled, and hard
irqs not marked disabled).

General kernel code should not be called while unreconciled, because
local_irq_disable, etc. manipulations can cause surprising irq traces,
and it's fragile because the soft irq code does not really expect to
be called in this situation.

When exiting from an interrupt, MSR[EE] is cleared to prevent races,
but soft irq state is enabled for the returned-to context, so this is
now an unreconciled state. restore_math is called in this state, and
that can be ftraced, and the ftrace subsystem disables local irqs.

Mark restore_math and its callees as notrace. Restore a sanity check
in the soft irq code that had to be disabled for this case, by commit
4da1f79227ad4 ("powerpc/64: Disable irq restore warning for now").

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: clean inclusions of asm/feature-fixups.h

files not using feature fixup don't need asm/feature-fixups.h
files using feature fixup need asm/feature-fixups.h

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <

powerpc: clean inclusions of asm/feature-fixups.h

files not using feature fixup don't need asm/feature-fixups.h
files using feature fixup need asm/feature-fixups.h

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: move ASM_CONST and stringify_in_c() into asm-const.h

This patch moves ASM_CONST() and stringify_in_c() into
dedicated asm-const.h, then cleans all related inclusions.

Signed-off-by: Christ

powerpc: move ASM_CONST and stringify_in_c() into asm-const.h

This patch moves ASM_CONST() and stringify_in_c() into
dedicated asm-const.h, then cleans all related inclusions.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[mpe: asm-compat.h should include asm-const.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec}

Previous rework of TM code leaves these functions unused

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerma

powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec}

Previous rework of TM code leaves these functions unused

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state

Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Si

powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state

Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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ppc: move exports to definitions

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without giving it up

This patch adds the ability to be able to save the FPU registers to the
thread struct without giving up (disabling the facility) next time t

powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without giving it up

This patch adds the ability to be able to save the FPU registers to the
thread struct without giving up (disabling the facility) next time the
process returns to userspace.

This patch optimises the thread copy path (as a result of a fork() or
clone()) so that the parent thread can return to userspace with hot
registers avoiding a possibly pointless reload of FPU register state.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: Restore FPU/VEC/VSX if previously used

Currently the FPU, VEC and VSX facilities are lazily loaded. This is not
a problem unless a process is using these facilities.

Modern versions of GCC

powerpc: Restore FPU/VEC/VSX if previously used

Currently the FPU, VEC and VSX facilities are lazily loaded. This is not
a problem unless a process is using these facilities.

Modern versions of GCC are very good at automatically vectorising code,
new and modernised workloads make use of floating point and vector
facilities, even the kernel makes use of vectorised memcpy.

All this combined greatly increases the cost of a syscall since the
kernel uses the facilities sometimes even in syscall fast-path making it
increasingly common for a thread to take an *_unavailable exception soon
after a syscall, not to mention potentially taking all three.

The obvious overcompensation to this problem is to simply always load
all the facilities on every exit to userspace. Loading up all FPU, VEC
and VSX registers every time can be expensive and if a workload does
avoid using them, it should not be forced to incur this penalty.

An 8bit counter is used to detect if the registers have been used in the
past and the registers are always loaded until the value wraps to back
to zero.

Several versions of the assembly in entry_64.S were tested:

1. Always calling C.
2. Performing a common case check and then calling C.
3. A complex check in asm.

After some benchmarking it was determined that avoiding C in the common
case is a performance benefit (option 2). The full check in asm (option
3) greatly complicated that codepath for a negligible performance gain
and the trade-off was deemed not worth it.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Move load_vec in the struct to fill an existing hole, reword change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

fixup

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powerpc: Remove fp_enable() and vec_enable(), use msr_check_and_{set, clear}()

More consolidation of our MSR available bit handling.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by:

powerpc: Remove fp_enable() and vec_enable(), use msr_check_and_{set, clear}()

More consolidation of our MSR available bit handling.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: Move part of giveup_fpu,altivec,spe into c

Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from
the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes
by batching them

powerpc: Move part of giveup_fpu,altivec,spe into c

Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from
the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes
by batching them up.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check into these new functions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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powerpc: Remove NULL task struct pointer checks in FP and vector code

We used to allow giveup_*() to be called with a NULL task struct
pointer. Now those cases are handled in the caller we can remov

powerpc: Remove NULL task struct pointer checks in FP and vector code

We used to allow giveup_*() to be called with a NULL task struct
pointer. Now those cases are handled in the caller we can remove
the checks. We can also remove giveup_altivec_notask() which is also
unused.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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