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      powerpc: Add the ability to save VSX without giving it up · bf6a4d5b
      Cyril Bur authored 
      This patch adds the ability to be able to save the VSX registers to the
thread struct without giving up (disabling the facility) next time the
process returns to userspace.

This patch builds on a previous optimisation for the FPU and VEC registers
in the thread copy path to avoid a possibly pointless reload of VSX state.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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      powerpc: Add the ability to save Altivec without giving it up · 6f515d84
      Cyril Bur authored 
      This patch adds the ability to be able to save the VEC registers to the
thread struct without giving up (disabling the facility) next time the
process returns to userspace.

This patch builds on a previous optimisation for the FPU registers in the
thread copy path to avoid a possibly pointless reload of VEC state.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      6f515d84
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      powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without giving it up · 8792468d
      Cyril Bur authored 
      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: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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      powerpc: Prepare for splitting giveup_{fpu, altivec, vsx} in two · de2a20aa
      Cyril Bur authored 
      This prepares for the decoupling of saving {fpu,altivec,vsx} registers and
marking {fpu,altivec,vsx} as being unused by a thread.

Currently giveup_{fpu,altivec,vsx}() does both however optimisations to
task switching can be made if these two operations are decoupled.
save_all() will permit the saving of registers to thread structs and leave
threads MSR with bits enabled.

This patch introduces no functional change.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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    • Cyril Bur's avatar
      powerpc: Restore FPU/VEC/VSX if previously used · 70fe3d98
      Cyril Bur authored 
      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: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Move load_vec in the struct to fill an existing hole, reword change log]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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      powerpc: Explicitly disable math features when copying thread · d272f667
      Cyril Bur authored 
      Currently when threads get scheduled off they always giveup the FPU,
Altivec (VMX) and Vector (VSX) units if they were using them. When they are
scheduled back on a fault is then taken to enable each facility and load
registers. As a result explicitly disabling FPU/VMX/VSX has not been
necessary.

Future changes and optimisations remove this mandatory giveup and fault
which could cause calls such as clone() and fork() to copy threads and run
them later with FPU/VMX/VSX enabled but no registers loaded.

This patch starts the process of having MSR_{FP,VEC,VSX} mean that a
threads registers are hot while not having MSR_{FP,VEC,VSX} means that the
registers must be loaded. This allows for a smarter return to userspace.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      d272f667
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      selftests/powerpc: Test FPU and VMX regs in signal ucontext · 48e8c571
      Cyril Bur authored 
      Load up the non volatile FPU and VMX regs and ensure that they are the
expected value in a signal handler
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      48e8c571
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