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| author | Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> | 2013-02-07 15:46:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-02-08 14:05:50 +1100 |
| commit | 2468dcf641e4f3e1b0153e3e11ca20740b2f4ce8 (patch) | |
| tree | 02a1ca877b20fd0975befc2554957ee4b535a6a0 /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | |
| parent | 14b6f00f8a4fdec5ccd45a0710284de301a61628 (diff) | |
powerpc: Add support for context switching the TAR register
This patch adds support for enabling and context switching the Target
Address Register in Power8. The TAR is a new special purpose register
that can be used for computed branches with the bctar[l] (branch
conditional to TAR) instruction in the same manner as the count and link
registers.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S index 44c733f4f829..9ae8451bbc83 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -448,6 +448,19 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_DSCR) std r23,_CCR(r1) std r1,KSP(r3) /* Set old stack pointer */ +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION + /* + * Back up the TAR across context switches. Note that the TAR is not + * available for use in the kernel. (To provide this, the TAR should + * be backed up/restored on exception entry/exit instead, and be in + * pt_regs. FIXME, this should be in pt_regs anyway (for debug).) + */ + mfspr r0,SPRN_TAR + std r0,THREAD_TAR(r3) +END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_BCTAR) +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_SMP /* We need a sync somewhere here to make sure that if the * previous task gets rescheduled on another CPU, it sees all @@ -530,6 +543,13 @@ END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(MMU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT) mr r1,r8 /* start using new stack pointer */ std r7,PACAKSAVE(r13) +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION + ld r0,THREAD_TAR(r4) + mtspr SPRN_TAR,r0 +END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_BCTAR) +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC BEGIN_FTR_SECTION ld r0,THREAD_VRSAVE(r4) |