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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jeremy Fitzhardinge db949bba3c x86-32: use non-lazy io bitmap context switching
Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification

x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks
with io permission bitmaps.  x86-64 simply copies the next
tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch.  x86-32
invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next
IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the
appropriate IO bitmap.

This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more
less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction
slower due to the extra fault.  This tradeoff only makes sense
if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they
don't actually use IO instructions very often.

However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely
to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on
a server.  Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win
all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from
64-bit code.

This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to
unifying this code in a later change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:07:48 +01:00
Brian Gerst b12bdaf11f x86: use regparm(3) for passed-in pt_regs pointer
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.

Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-11 14:00:56 -08:00
Brian Gerst 253f29a4ae x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:40:45 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput 5866e1b49d x86: ioport.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup

Fix:

 ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"

total: 2 errors, 0 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-04 13:23:07 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh bbc1f698a5 x86: Introducing asm/syscalls.h
Declaring arch-dependent syscalls for x86 architecture

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
2008-07-22 14:35:57 +02:00
Chris Wright a1bf250a6f x86: refactor ioport unification
Refactor ioport unification to pull out common code.

Cc: mboton@gmail.com
Cc: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:10 +01:00
Chris Wright 9718769d29 x86: fix ioport unification on 32-bit
ioport unification was broken for 32-bit; it was missing
the acutal pushf/popf EFLAGS manipulation (set_iopl_mask()).
Also, use of volatile looks like leftover cruft.

Cc: mboton@gmail.com
Cc: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:10 +01:00
mboton@gmail.com ccafa59a00 x86: ioport_{32|64}.c unification
ioport_{32|64}.c unification.

This patch unifies the code from the ioport_32.c and ioport_64.c files.

Tested and working fine with i386 and x86_64 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Botón <mboton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:10 +01:00