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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2006-02-13 14:48:35 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-02-24 11:36:31 +1100
commitcb2c9b2741346eb23b177187a51ff5abf08295bd (patch)
tree31433b46f96a00e22ca7e8402fd0bfe1fea3408d /arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
parent47f78a49206b7f9b0d283ba46a2a5a6ee1796472 (diff)
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix runlatch performance issues
The runlatch SPR can take a lot of time to write. My original runlatch code would set it on every exception entry even though most of the time this was not required. It would also continually set it in the idle loop, which is an issue on an SMT capable processor. Now we cache the runlatch value in a threadinfo bit, and only check for it in decrementer and hardware interrupt exceptions as well as the idle loop. Boot on POWER3, POWER5 and iseries, and compile tested on pmac32. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 57703994a06..c225cf154bf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -888,3 +888,35 @@ void dump_stack(void)
show_stack(current, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_stack);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+void ppc64_runlatch_on(void)
+{
+ unsigned long ctrl;
+
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_CTRL) && !test_thread_flag(TIF_RUNLATCH)) {
+ HMT_medium();
+
+ ctrl = mfspr(SPRN_CTRLF);
+ ctrl |= CTRL_RUNLATCH;
+ mtspr(SPRN_CTRLT, ctrl);
+
+ set_thread_flag(TIF_RUNLATCH);
+ }
+}
+
+void ppc64_runlatch_off(void)
+{
+ unsigned long ctrl;
+
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_CTRL) && test_thread_flag(TIF_RUNLATCH)) {
+ HMT_medium();
+
+ clear_thread_flag(TIF_RUNLATCH);
+
+ ctrl = mfspr(SPRN_CTRLF);
+ ctrl &= ~CTRL_RUNLATCH;
+ mtspr(SPRN_CTRLT, ctrl);
+ }
+}
+#endif