From d9ada91ae2969ae6b6dc3574fd08a6ebda5df766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:33:52 +1100 Subject: powerpc: Replace mfmsr instructions with load from PACA kernel_msr field On 64-bit, the mfmsr instruction can be quite slow, slower than loading a field from the cache-hot PACA, which happens to already contain the value we want in most cases. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S index cc030b73174..c513beb78b3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -557,10 +557,8 @@ _GLOBAL(ret_from_except_lite) #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E wrteei 0 #else - mfmsr r10 /* Get current interrupt state */ - rldicl r9,r10,48,1 /* clear MSR_EE */ - rotldi r9,r9,16 - mtmsrd r9,1 /* Update machine state */ + ld r10,PACAKMSR(r13) /* Get kernel MSR without EE */ + mtmsrd r10,1 /* Update machine state */ #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */ #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT @@ -625,8 +623,8 @@ ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS) * userspace and we take an exception after restoring r13, * we end up corrupting the userspace r13 value. */ - mfmsr r4 - andc r4,r4,r0 /* r0 contains MSR_RI here */ + ld r4,PACAKMSR(r13) /* Get kernel MSR without EE */ + andc r4,r4,r0 /* r0 contains MSR_RI here */ mtmsrd r4,1 /* @@ -686,9 +684,7 @@ do_work: #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E wrteei 0 #else - mfmsr r10 - rldicl r10,r10,48,1 - rotldi r10,r10,16 + ld r10,PACAKMSR(r13) /* Get kernel MSR without EE */ mtmsrd r10,1 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */ li r0,0 -- cgit v1.2.3