[PATCH 4/4] ARM: avoid saving and restoring registers unnecessarily
Russell King
rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk
Thu Jul 20 02:32:39 PDT 2017
Avoid repeatedly saving and restoring registers around the calls to
trace_hardirqs_on() and context_tracking_user_exit(). With the
previous changes, we no longer need to preserve "lr" across these
calls, and if we re-load r0-r3 later, we can avoid preserving these
regsiters too.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
index 1b3fc79d0e8b..0b60adf4a5d9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
@@ -157,8 +157,9 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
#endif
zero_fp
alignment_trap r10, ip, __cr_alignment
- enable_irq
- ct_user_exit
+ asm_trace_hardirqs_on save=0
+ enable_irq_notrace
+ ct_user_exit save=0
/*
* Get the system call number.
@@ -216,6 +217,11 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
eor scno, scno, #__NR_SYSCALL_BASE @ check OS number
#endif
get_thread_info tsk
+ /*
+ * Reload the registers that may have been corrupted on entry to
+ * the syscall assembly (by tracing or context tracking.)
+ */
+ TRACE( ldmia sp, {r0 - r3} )
local_restart:
ldr r10, [tsk, #TI_FLAGS] @ check for syscall tracing
--
2.7.4
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