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authorDavid Mosberger-Tang2005-05-04 22:25:00 +0200
committerTony Luck2005-06-28 18:28:16 +0200
commit458f935527372499b714bf4f8e646a68bb0f52e3 (patch)
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[IA64] Speed up lfetch.fault [NULL]
This patch greatly speeds up the handling of lfetch.fault instructions which result in NaT consumption. Due to the NaT-page mapped at address 0, this is guaranteed to happen when lfetch.fault'ing a NULL pointer. With this patch in place, we can even define prefetch()/prefetchw() as lfetch.fault without significant performance degradation. More importantly, it allows compilers to be more aggressive with using lfetch.fault on pointers that might be NULL. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S
index b28d2212a779..3bb3a13c4047 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S
@@ -1243,6 +1243,25 @@ END(disabled_fp_reg)
// 0x5600 Entry 26 (size 16 bundles) Nat Consumption (11,23,37,50)
ENTRY(nat_consumption)
DBG_FAULT(26)
+
+ mov r16=cr.ipsr
+ mov r17=cr.isr
+ mov r31=pr // save PR
+ ;;
+ and r18=0xf,r17 // r18 = cr.ipsr.code{3:0}
+ tbit.z p6,p0=r17,IA64_ISR_NA_BIT
+ ;;
+ cmp.ne.or p6,p0=IA64_ISR_CODE_LFETCH,r18
+ dep r16=-1,r16,IA64_PSR_ED_BIT,1
+(p6) br.cond.spnt 1f // branch if (cr.ispr.na == 0 || cr.ipsr.code{3:0} != LFETCH)
+ ;;
+ mov cr.ipsr=r16 // set cr.ipsr.na
+ mov pr=r31,-1
+ ;;
+ rfi
+
+1: mov pr=r31,-1
+ ;;
FAULT(26)
END(nat_consumption)