From: "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: "Rohan McLure" <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/23] powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:55:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CN0TI9FW40N3.2POCSRW2SO9X5@bobo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220916053300.786330-8-rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
On Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 3:32 PM AEST, Rohan McLure wrote:
> Interrupt handlers on 64s systems will often need to save register state
> from the interrupted process to make space for loading special purpose
> registers or for internal state.
>
> Fix a comment documenting a common code path macro in the beginning of
> interrupt handlers where r10 is saved to the PACA to afford space for
> the value of the CFAR. Comment is currently written as if r10-r12 are
> saved to PACA, but in fact only r10 is saved, with r11-r12 saved much
> later. The distance in code between these saves has grown over the many
> revisions of this macro. Fix this by signalling with a comment where
> r11-r12 are saved to the PACA.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
> V1 -> V2: Given its own commit
> V2 -> V3: Annotate r11-r12 save locations with comment.
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> index 3d0dc133a9ae..a3b51441b039 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> mfspr r9,SPRN_PPR
> END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
> HMT_MEDIUM
> - std r10,IAREA+EX_R10(r13) /* save r10 - r12 */
> + std r10,IAREA+EX_R10(r13) /* save r10 */
> .if ICFAR
> BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> mfspr r10,SPRN_CFAR
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_CFAR)
> mfctr r10
> std r10,IAREA+EX_CTR(r13)
> mfcr r9
> - std r11,IAREA+EX_R11(r13)
> + std r11,IAREA+EX_R11(r13) /* save r11 - r12 */
> std r12,IAREA+EX_R12(r13)
>
> /*
> --
> 2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-20 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-16 5:32 [PATCH 00/23] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 01/23] powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 02/23] powerpc: Save caller r3 prior to system_call_exception Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 03/23] powerpc: Add ZEROIZE_GPRS macros for register clears Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 04/23] powerpc/64s: Use {ZEROIZE,SAVE,REST}_GPRS macros in sc, scv 0 handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 05/23] powerpc/32: Clarify interrupt restores with REST_GPR macro in entry_32.S Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 0:51 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 06/23] powerpc/64e: Clarify register saves and clears with {SAVE,ZEROIZE}_GPRS Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 0:55 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 07/23] powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 0:55 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 08/23] powerpc: Fix fallocate and fadvise64_64 compat parameter combination Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 6:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-09-20 1:01 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 09/23] asm-generic: compat: Support BE for long long args in 32-bit ABIs Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 1:06 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-20 7:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 10/23] powerpc: Use generic fallocate compatibility syscall Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 6:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 11/23] powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 12/23] powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 13/23] powerpc: Remove direct call to mmap2 syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 14/23] powerpc: Provide do_ppc64_personality helper Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 15/23] powerpc: Adopt SYSCALL_DEFINE for arch-specific syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:48 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 1:24 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 16/23] powerpc: Include all arch-specific syscall prototypes Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 1:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 17/23] powerpc: Enable compile-time check for syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 1:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 18/23] powerpc: Use common syscall handler type Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 1:39 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 19/23] powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 1:59 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-21 3:44 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 20/23] powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 2:03 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-20 4:54 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-21 5:33 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 2:07 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 21/23] powerpc/64: Add INTERRUPT_SANITIZE_REGISTERS Kconfig Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 2:10 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH 22/23] powerpc/64s: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry in Book3S Rohan McLure
2022-09-20 2:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-16 5:33 ` [PATCH 23/23] powerpc/64e: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry on Book3E Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 5:58 ` [PATCH 00/23] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure
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