[PATCH] arm: Preserve TPIDRURW on context switch

André Hentschel nerv at dawncrow.de
Tue Feb 12 09:02:59 EST 2013


Am 08.02.2013 16:48, schrieb Will Deacon:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:01:23PM +0000, André Hentschel wrote:
>> Am 06.02.2013 23:51, schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:
>>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:43:10PM +0100, André Hentschel wrote:
>>>> There are more and more applications coming to WinRT, Wine could support them,
>>>> but mostly they expect to have the thread environment block (TEB) in TPIDRURW.
>>>> This register must be preserved per thread instead of being cleared.
>>>
>>> I'd prefer this was done a little more sensitively to those CPUs where
>>> loads/stores are expensive, namely:
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +	@ preserve TPIDRURW register state
>>>> +	get_tls2	r3, r4, r5
>>>> +	str	r3, [r1, #TI_TP2_VALUE]
>>>> +	ldr	r3, [r2, #TI_TP2_VALUE]
>>>> +	set_tls2	r3, r4, r5
>>>
>>> those two loads/stores get omitted from the thread switching if the CPU
>>> doesn't support it.  Do you think that's something you could do?
>>
>> No, i'm not sure how to improve this. How does the process can continue, can you or someone else fix that and add his Signed-off-by?
> 
> How about something like the (completely untested) diff below?
> 
> Andre: if this works for you, I'm happy to write a commit message etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Will


Thx for your effort, but it doesn't work, at least not with my 3.4.6 suse kernel.
Be free to have another try, i'll be happy to test it.


> --->8
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index cddda1f..d90be6d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct thread_info {
>  	struct cpu_context_save	cpu_context;	/* cpu context */
>  	__u32			syscall;	/* syscall number */
>  	__u8			used_cp[16];	/* thread used copro */
> -	unsigned long		tp_value;
> +	unsigned long		tp_value[2];	/* TLS registers */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CRUNCH
>  	struct crunch_state	crunchstate;
>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h
> index 73409e6..e1b09d32 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h
> @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
>  	.endm
>  
>  	.macro set_tls_v6k, tp, tmp1, tmp2
> -	mcr	p15, 0, \tp, c13, c0, 3		@ set TLS register
> -	mov	\tmp1, #0
> -	mcr	p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 2	@ clear user r/w TLS register
> +	ldrd	\tmp1, \tmp2, [\tp]
> +	mcr	p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 3	@ set user r/o TLS register
> +	mcr	p15, 0, \tmp2, c13, c0, 2	@ set user r/w TLS register
>  	.endm
>  
>  	.macro set_tls_v6, tp, tmp1, tmp2
> @@ -16,15 +16,17 @@
>  	ldr	\tmp1, [\tmp1, #0]
>  	mov	\tmp2, #0xffff0fff
>  	tst	\tmp1, #HWCAP_TLS		@ hardware TLS available?
> -	mcrne	p15, 0, \tp, c13, c0, 3		@ yes, set TLS register
> -	movne	\tmp1, #0
> -	mcrne	p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 2	@ clear user r/w TLS register
> -	streq	\tp, [\tmp2, #-15]		@ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
> +	ldrdne	\tmp1, \tmp2, [\tp]
> +	ldreq	\tmp1, [\tp]
> +	mcrne	p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 3	@ yes, set user r/o TLS register
> +	mcrne	p15, 0, \tmp2, c13, c0, 2	@ set user r/w TLS register
> +	streq	\tmp1, [\tmp2, #-15]		@ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
>  	.endm
>  
>  	.macro set_tls_software, tp, tmp1, tmp2
> -	mov	\tmp1, #0xffff0fff
> -	str	\tp, [\tmp1, #-15]		@ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
> +	ldr	\tmp1, [\tp]
> +	mov	\tmp2, #0xffff0fff
> +	str	\tmp1, [\tmp2, #-15]		@ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
>  	.endm
>  #endif
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> index 0f82098..a0a8fe3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to)
>   UNWIND(.fnstart	)
>   UNWIND(.cantunwind	)
>  	add	ip, r1, #TI_CPU_SAVE
> -	ldr	r3, [r2, #TI_TP_VALUE]
> +	add	r3, r2, #TI_TP_VALUE
>   ARM(	stmia	ip!, {r4 - sl, fp, sp, lr} )	@ Store most regs on stack
>   THUMB(	stmia	ip!, {r4 - sl, fp}	   )	@ Store most regs on stack
>   THUMB(	str	sp, [ip], #4		   )
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> index c6dec5f..ea298d2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
>  	clear_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(p);
>  
>  	if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
> -		thread->tp_value = childregs->ARM_r3;
> +		thread->tp_value[0] = childregs->ARM_r3;
>  
>  	thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY, thread);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 03deeff..2bc1514 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
>  #endif
>  
>  		case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA:
> -			ret = put_user(task_thread_info(child)->tp_value,
> +			ret = put_user(task_thread_info(child)->tp_value[0],
>  				       datap);
>  			break;
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> index b0179b8..08b0db9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ asmlinkage int arm_syscall(int no, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  		return regs->ARM_r0;
>  
>  	case NR(set_tls):
> -		thread->tp_value = regs->ARM_r0;
> +		thread->tp_value[0] = regs->ARM_r0;
>  		if (tls_emu)
>  			return 0;
>  		if (has_tls_reg) {
> @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int get_tp_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int instr)
>  	int reg = (instr >> 12) & 15;
>  	if (reg == 15)
>  		return 1;
> -	regs->uregs[reg] = current_thread_info()->tp_value;
> +	regs->uregs[reg] = current_thread_info()->tp_value[0];
>  	regs->ARM_pc += 4;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 


-- 

Best Regards, André Hentschel



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