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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, deepa.kernel@gmail.com,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>,
	mattst88@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry name
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 03:45:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180811024553.GF6515@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98937991-cefa-b7f3-11c3-12727b3159b1@twiddle.net>

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 07:31:55PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S
> > @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ entSys:
> >  	bne     $3, strace
> >  	beq	$4, 1f
> >  	ldq	$27, 0($5)
> > -1:	jsr	$26, ($27), alpha_ni_syscall
> > +1:	jsr	$26, ($27), sys_ni_syscall
> >  	ldgp	$gp, 0($26)
> >  	blt	$0, $syscall_error	/* the call failed */
> >  	stq	$0, 0($sp)
> 
> Once upon a time I had a patch to make the hint
> be sys_gettimeofday, as the most common syscall.
> Dunno what happened to that.

Might as well... ptraced case has it, non-ptraced doesn't.

BTW, seeing that it's your code - why was unop used in
alpha_ni_syscall?  I don't remember the rules re pipeline
stalls; is it that some earlier variants prefer unop to
nop in such places?  It's not that microoptimizing that
one makes any difference, but just out of curiosity -
would something like
	lda     $0, -ENOSYS
	stq     $sp, 0($sp)	/* sp != 0 */
	ret
do just as well there?
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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru,
	mattst88@gmail.com, y2038@lists.linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	arnd@arndb.de, deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry name
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 03:45:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180811024553.GF6515@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
Message-ID: <20180811024553.5acOzirfish4JoC0I8nyO1RgMCpnRJduyKc_92DMlEQ@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98937991-cefa-b7f3-11c3-12727b3159b1@twiddle.net>

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 07:31:55PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S
> > @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ entSys:
> >  	bne     $3, strace
> >  	beq	$4, 1f
> >  	ldq	$27, 0($5)
> > -1:	jsr	$26, ($27), alpha_ni_syscall
> > +1:	jsr	$26, ($27), sys_ni_syscall
> >  	ldgp	$gp, 0($26)
> >  	blt	$0, $syscall_error	/* the call failed */
> >  	stq	$0, 0($sp)
> 
> Once upon a time I had a patch to make the hint
> be sys_gettimeofday, as the most common syscall.
> Dunno what happened to that.

Might as well... ptraced case has it, non-ptraced doesn't.

BTW, seeing that it's your code - why was unop used in
alpha_ni_syscall?  I don't remember the rules re pipeline
stalls; is it that some earlier variants prefer unop to
nop in such places?  It's not that microoptimizing that
one makes any difference, but just out of curiosity -
would something like
	lda     $0, -ENOSYS
	stq     $sp, 0($sp)	/* sp != 0 */
	ret
do just as well there?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-11  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-16 10:23 [PATCH 0/6] System call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23 ` Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] alpha: Move __IGNORE* entries to non uapi header Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23   ` Firoz Khan
2018-08-11 19:28   ` Al Viro
2018-08-11 19:28     ` Al Viro
2018-08-11 20:59     ` Michael Cree
2018-08-11 20:59       ` Michael Cree
2018-08-11 22:27       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-08-11 22:27         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] alpha: Add CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT for compat syscall support Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23   ` Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry name Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23   ` Firoz Khan
2018-08-11  0:04   ` Al Viro
2018-08-11  0:04     ` Al Viro
2018-08-11  2:31     ` Richard Henderson
2018-08-11  2:31       ` Richard Henderson
2018-08-11  2:45       ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-08-11  2:45         ` Al Viro
2018-08-11  4:10         ` Richard Henderson
2018-08-11  4:10           ` Richard Henderson
2018-08-11 15:07           ` Al Viro
2018-08-11 15:07             ` Al Viro
2018-08-11 15:24             ` Richard Henderson
2018-08-11 15:24               ` Richard Henderson
2018-07-16 10:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] alpha: Replace NR_SYSCALLS macro from asm/unistd.h Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23   ` Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] alpha: Add system call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23   ` Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] alpha: uapi header and system call table file generation Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 10:23   ` Firoz Khan
2018-07-16 16:23   ` kbuild test robot
2018-07-16 16:23     ` kbuild test robot
2018-07-16 14:09 ` [PATCH 0/6] System call table generation support Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 14:09   ` Arnd Bergmann

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