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| author | Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> | 2016-10-17 15:34:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2017-01-03 16:34:41 +0100 |
| commit | e11124d8ffcdf893d64e0b29624fd88e0ae4ceac (patch) | |
| tree | 7698f9e5e76fd685a8548ba807a6be07592475a7 /arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h | |
| parent | daa10170da271ed82b34c39a5f10f993569eec79 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e11124d8ffcdf893d64e0b29624fd88e0ae4ceac.tar.gz linux-e11124d8ffcdf893d64e0b29624fd88e0ae4ceac.tar.xz | |
MIPS: Remove r2_emul_return from struct thread_info
The r2_emul_return field in struct thread_info was used in order to take
an alternate codepath when returning to userland, which (besides not
implementing certain features) effectively used the eretnc instruction
in place of eret. The difference is that eretnc doesn't clear LLBit, and
therefore doesn't cause a linked load & store sequence to fail due to
emulation like eret would.
The reason eret would usually be used to clear LLBit is so that after
context switching we ensure that a load performed by one task doesn't
influence another task. However commit 7c151d3d5d7a ("MIPS: Make use of
the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6") which introduced the r2_emul_return
field and conditional use of eretnc also for some reason began
explicitly clearing LLBit during context switches - despite retaining
the use of eret for everything but returns from the pre-r6 instruction
emulation code.
As LLBit is cleared upon context switches anyway, simplify this by using
eretnc unconditionally for MIPSr6 kernels. This allows us to remove the
4 byte r2_emul_return boolean from struct thread_info, simplify the
return to user code in entry.S and avoid the overhead of tracking &
checking state which we don't need.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14408/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h index e309d8fcb516..b439e512792b 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ struct thread_info { unsigned long tp_value; /* thread pointer */ __u32 cpu; /* current CPU */ int preempt_count; /* 0 => preemptable, <0 => BUG */ - int r2_emul_return; /* 1 => Returning from R2 emulator */ mm_segment_t addr_limit; /* * thread address space limit: * 0x7fffffff for user-thead |