linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/8] Generic IRQ entry/exit support for powerpc

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Message-ID: <20251102115358.1744304-1-mkchauras@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Sun,  2 Nov 2025 17:23:50 +0530
From: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mkchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
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Cc: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mkchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] Generic IRQ entry/exit support for powerpc

Adding support for the generic irq entry/exit handling for PowerPC. The
goal is to bring PowerPC in line with other architectures that already
use the common irq entry infrastructure, reducing duplicated code and
making it easier to share future changes in entry/exit paths.

This is slightly tested of ppc64le and ppc32.

The performance benchmarks from perf bench basic syscall are below:

| Metric     | W/O Generic Framework | With Generic Framework | Change |
| ---------- | --------------------- | ---------------------- | ------ |
| Total time | 0.939 [sec]           | 0.938 [sec]            | ~0%    |
| usecs/op   | 0.093900              | 0.093882               | ~0%    |
| ops/sec    | 1,06,49,615           | 1,06,51,725            | ~0%    |

Thats very close to performance earlier with arch specific handling.

Tests done:
 - Build and boot on ppc64le pseries.
 - Build and boot on ppc64le powernv8 powernv9 powernv10.
 - Build and boot on ppc32.
 - Performance benchmark done with perf syscall basic on pseries.

Changelog:

RFC -> PATCH
 - Fix for ppc32 spitting out kuap lock warnings.
 - ppc64le powernv8 crash fix.
 - Review comments incorporated from previous RFC.
RFC https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250908210235.137300-2-mchauras@linux.ibm.com/

Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (8):
  powerpc: rename arch_irq_disabled_regs
  powerpc: Prepare to build with generic entry/exit framework
  powerpc: introduce arch_enter_from_user_mode
  powerpc: Introduce syscall exit arch functions
  powerpc: add exit_flags field in pt_regs
  powerpc: Prepare for IRQ entry exit
  powerpc: Enable IRQ generic entry/exit path.
  powerpc: Enable Generic Entry/Exit for syscalls.

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                    |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h | 539 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h       |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h    | 401 +++---------------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h       |   3 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/stacktrace.h   |   6 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h      |   5 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h  |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h  |  14 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c       |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c         | 258 +++---------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c     | 142 +------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c            |   8 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c           | 119 +-----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c             |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c          |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c         |   2 +-
 17 files changed, 693 insertions(+), 816 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h

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