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Commit f8fa5448 authored by David Mosberger-Tang's avatar David Mosberger-Tang Committed by Tony Luck
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[IA64] Reschedule break_fault() for better performance.



This patch reorganizes break_fault() to optimistically assume that a
system-call is being performed from user-space (which is almost always
the case).  If it turns out that (a) we're not being called due to a
system call or (b) we're being called from within the kernel, we fixup
the no-longer-valid assumptions in non_syscall() and .break_fixup(),
respectively.

With this approach, there are 3 major phases:

 - Phase 1: Read various control & application registers, in
	    particular the current task pointer from AR.K6.
 - Phase 2: Do all memory loads (load system-call entry,
	    load current_thread_info()->flags, prefetch
	    kernel register-backing store) and switch
	    to kernel register-stack.
 - Phase 3: Call ia64_syscall_setup() and invoke
	    syscall-handler.

Good for 26-30 cycles of improvement on break-based syscall-path.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
parent c03f058f
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