powerpc/64: Avoid restore_math call if possible in syscall exit

The syscall exit code that branches to restore_math is quite heavy on
Book3S, consisting of 2 mtmsr instructions. Threads that don't use both
FP and vector can get caught here if the kernel ever uses FP or vector.
Lazy-FP/vec context switching also trips this case.

So check for lazy FP and vector before switching RI for restore_math.
Move most of this case out of line.

For threads that do want to restore math registers, the MSR switches are
still suboptimal. Future direction may be to use a soft-RI bit to avoid
MSR switches in kernel (similar to soft-EE), but for now at least the
no-restore

POWER9 context switch rate increases by about 5% due to sched_yield(2)
return performance. I haven't constructed a test to measure the syscall
cost.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin 2017-06-09 01:35:05 +10:00 committed by Michael Ellerman
parent acd7d8cef0
commit bc4f65e4cf
2 changed files with 47 additions and 19 deletions

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@ -511,6 +511,10 @@ void restore_math(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
unsigned long msr;
/*
* Syscall exit makes a similar initial check before branching
* to restore_math. Keep them in synch.
*/
if (!msr_tm_active(regs->msr) &&
!current->thread.load_fp && !loadvec(current->thread))
return;