powerpc: Don't disable kernel FP/VMX/VSX MSR bits on context switch

antonblanchard · mpe · commit 07e45c120c9c · 2015-12-01T13:52:24.000+11:00
Writing the MSR is slow, so we want to avoid it whenever possible. A subsequent patch will add a debug option that strictly manages the FP/VMX/VSX unavailable bits. For now just remove it, matching what we do in other areas of the kernel (eg enable_kernel_altivec()). A context switch microbenchmark using yield(): http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c ./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp 0 0 shows an improvement of almost 3% on POWER8. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -453,26 +453,13 @@ _GLOBAL(_switch)
 	SAVE_8GPRS(14, r1)
 	SAVE_10GPRS(22, r1)
 	mflr	r20		/* Return to switch caller */
-	mfmsr	r22
-	li	r0, MSR_FP
-#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
-BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
-	oris	r0,r0,MSR_VSX@h	/* Disable VSX */
-END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_VSX)
-#endif /* CONFIG_VSX */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
 BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
-	oris	r0,r0,MSR_VEC@h	/* Disable altivec */
 	mfspr	r24,SPRN_VRSAVE	/* save vrsave register value */
 	std	r24,THREAD_VRSAVE(r3)
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)
 #endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
-	and.	r0,r0,r22
-	beq+	1f
-	andc	r22,r22,r0
-	MTMSRD(r22)
-	isync
-1:	std	r20,_NIP(r1)
+	std	r20,_NIP(r1)
 	mfcr	r23
 	std	r23,_CCR(r1)
 	std	r1,KSP(r3)	/* Set old stack pointer */
