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Message-ID: <20130208154809.GF3495@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:48:09 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To: André Hentschel <nerv@...ncrow.de>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: Preserve TPIDRURW on context switch
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:01:23PM +0000, André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 06.02.2013 23:51, schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:43:10PM +0100, André Hentschel wrote:
> >> There are more and more applications coming to WinRT, Wine could support them,
> >> but mostly they expect to have the thread environment block (TEB) in TPIDRURW.
> >> This register must be preserved per thread instead of being cleared.
> >
> > I'd prefer this was done a little more sensitively to those CPUs where
> > loads/stores are expensive, namely:
> >
> >> +
> >> + @ preserve TPIDRURW register state
> >> + get_tls2 r3, r4, r5
> >> + str r3, [r1, #TI_TP2_VALUE]
> >> + ldr r3, [r2, #TI_TP2_VALUE]
> >> + set_tls2 r3, r4, r5
> >
> > those two loads/stores get omitted from the thread switching if the CPU
> > doesn't support it. Do you think that's something you could do?
>
> No, i'm not sure how to improve this. How does the process can continue, can you or someone else fix that and add his Signed-off-by?
How about something like the (completely untested) diff below?
Andre: if this works for you, I'm happy to write a commit message etc.
Cheers,
Will
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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
index cddda1f..d90be6d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct thread_info {
struct cpu_context_save cpu_context; /* cpu context */
__u32 syscall; /* syscall number */
__u8 used_cp[16]; /* thread used copro */
- unsigned long tp_value;
+ unsigned long tp_value[2]; /* TLS registers */
#ifdef CONFIG_CRUNCH
struct crunch_state crunchstate;
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h
index 73409e6..e1b09d32 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/tls.h
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
.endm
.macro set_tls_v6k, tp, tmp1, tmp2
- mcr p15, 0, \tp, c13, c0, 3 @ set TLS register
- mov \tmp1, #0
- mcr p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 2 @ clear user r/w TLS register
+ ldrd \tmp1, \tmp2, [\tp]
+ mcr p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 3 @ set user r/o TLS register
+ mcr p15, 0, \tmp2, c13, c0, 2 @ set user r/w TLS register
.endm
.macro set_tls_v6, tp, tmp1, tmp2
@@ -16,15 +16,17 @@
ldr \tmp1, [\tmp1, #0]
mov \tmp2, #0xffff0fff
tst \tmp1, #HWCAP_TLS @ hardware TLS available?
- mcrne p15, 0, \tp, c13, c0, 3 @ yes, set TLS register
- movne \tmp1, #0
- mcrne p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 2 @ clear user r/w TLS register
- streq \tp, [\tmp2, #-15] @ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
+ ldrdne \tmp1, \tmp2, [\tp]
+ ldreq \tmp1, [\tp]
+ mcrne p15, 0, \tmp1, c13, c0, 3 @ yes, set user r/o TLS register
+ mcrne p15, 0, \tmp2, c13, c0, 2 @ set user r/w TLS register
+ streq \tmp1, [\tmp2, #-15] @ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
.endm
.macro set_tls_software, tp, tmp1, tmp2
- mov \tmp1, #0xffff0fff
- str \tp, [\tmp1, #-15] @ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
+ ldr \tmp1, [\tp]
+ mov \tmp2, #0xffff0fff
+ str \tmp1, [\tmp2, #-15] @ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
.endm
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index 0f82098..a0a8fe3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to)
UNWIND(.fnstart )
UNWIND(.cantunwind )
add ip, r1, #TI_CPU_SAVE
- ldr r3, [r2, #TI_TP_VALUE]
+ add r3, r2, #TI_TP_VALUE
ARM( stmia ip!, {r4 - sl, fp, sp, lr} ) @ Store most regs on stack
THUMB( stmia ip!, {r4 - sl, fp} ) @ Store most regs on stack
THUMB( str sp, [ip], #4 )
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index c6dec5f..ea298d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
clear_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(p);
if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
- thread->tp_value = childregs->ARM_r3;
+ thread->tp_value[0] = childregs->ARM_r3;
thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY, thread);
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
index 03deeff..2bc1514 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
#endif
case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA:
- ret = put_user(task_thread_info(child)->tp_value,
+ ret = put_user(task_thread_info(child)->tp_value[0],
datap);
break;
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index b0179b8..08b0db9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ asmlinkage int arm_syscall(int no, struct pt_regs *regs)
return regs->ARM_r0;
case NR(set_tls):
- thread->tp_value = regs->ARM_r0;
+ thread->tp_value[0] = regs->ARM_r0;
if (tls_emu)
return 0;
if (has_tls_reg) {
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int get_tp_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int instr)
int reg = (instr >> 12) & 15;
if (reg == 15)
return 1;
- regs->uregs[reg] = current_thread_info()->tp_value;
+ regs->uregs[reg] = current_thread_info()->tp_value[0];
regs->ARM_pc += 4;
return 0;
}
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