kernel.git/arch/arc/Kconfig, branch linux-6.10.y

Merge tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2024-05-13T23:41:10Z

Daniel Borkmann says: ==================== pull-request: bpf-next 2024-05-13 We've added 119 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain a total of 134 files changed, 9462 insertions(+), 4742 deletions(-). The main changes are: 1) Add BPF JIT support for 32-bit ARCv2 processors, from Shahab Vahedi. 2) Add BPF range computation improvements to the verifier in particular around XOR and OR operators, refactoring of checks for range computation and relaxing MUL range computation so that src_reg can also be an unknown scalar, from Cupertino Miranda. 3) Add support to attach kprobe BPF programs through kprobe_multi link in a session mode, meaning, a BPF program is attached to both function entry and return, the entry program can decide if the return program gets executed and the entry program can share u64 cookie value with return program. Session mode is a common use-case for tetragon and bpftrace, from Jiri Olsa. 4) Fix a potential overflow in libbpf's ring__consume_n() and improve libbpf as well as BPF selftest's struct_ops handling, from Andrii Nakryiko. 5) Improvements to BPF selftests in context of BPF gcc backend, from Jose E. Marchesi & David Faust. 6) Migrate remaining BPF selftest tests from test_sock_addr.c to prog_test- -style in order to retire the old test, run it in BPF CI and additionally expand test coverage, from Jordan Rife. 7) Big batch for BPF selftest refactoring in order to remove duplicate code around common network helpers, from Geliang Tang. 8) Another batch of improvements to BPF selftests to retire obsolete bpf_tcp_helpers.h as everything is available vmlinux.h, from Martin KaFai Lau. 9) Fix BPF map tear-down to not walk the map twice on free when both timer and wq is used, from Benjamin Tissoires. 10) Fix BPF verifier assumptions about socket->sk that it can be non-NULL, from Alexei Starovoitov. 11) Change BTF build scripts to using --btf_features for pahole v1.26+, from Alan Maguire. 12) Small improvements to BPF reusing struct_size() and krealloc_array(), from Andy Shevchenko. 13) Fix s390 JIT to emit a barrier for BPF_FETCH instructions, from Ilya Leoshkevich. 14) Extend TCP ->cong_control() callback in order to feed in ack and flag parameters and allow write-access to tp->snd_cwnd_stamp from BPF program, from Miao Xu. 15) Add support for internal-only per-CPU instructions to inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id() helper call for arm64 and riscv64 BPF JITs, from Puranjay Mohan. 16) Follow-up to remove the redundant ethtool.h from tooling infrastructure, from Tushar Vyavahare. 17) Extend libbpf to support "module:" syntax for tracing programs, from Viktor Malik. * tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (119 commits) bpf: make list_for_each_entry portable bpf: ignore expected GCC warning in test_global_func10.c bpf: disable strict aliasing in test_global_func9.c selftests/bpf: Free strdup memory in xdp_hw_metadata selftests/bpf: Fix a few tests for GCC related warnings. bpf: avoid gcc overflow warning in test_xdp_vlan.c tools: remove redundant ethtool.h from tooling infra selftests/bpf: Expand ATTACH_REJECT tests selftests/bpf: Expand getsockname and getpeername tests sefltests/bpf: Expand sockaddr hook deny tests selftests/bpf: Expand sockaddr program return value tests selftests/bpf: Retire test_sock_addr.(c|sh) selftests/bpf: Remove redundant sendmsg test cases selftests/bpf: Migrate ATTACH_REJECT test cases selftests/bpf: Migrate expected_attach_type tests selftests/bpf: Migrate wildcard destination rewrite test selftests/bpf: Migrate sendmsg6 v4 mapped address tests selftests/bpf: Migrate sendmsg deny test cases selftests/bpf: Migrate WILDCARD_IP test selftests/bpf: Handle SYSCALL_EPERM and SYSCALL_ENOTSUPP test cases ... ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513134114.17575-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ARC: Add eBPF JIT support

2024-05-12T23:51:36Z

This will add eBPF JIT support to the 32-bit ARCv2 processors. The implementation is qualified by running the BPF tests on a Synopsys HSDK board with "ARC HS38 v2.1c at 500 MHz" as the 4-core CPU. The test_bpf.ko reports 2-10 fold improvements in execution time of its tests. For instance: test_bpf: #33 tcpdump port 22 jited:0 704 1766 2104 PASS test_bpf: #33 tcpdump port 22 jited:1 120 224 260 PASS test_bpf: #141 ALU_DIV_X: 4294967295 / 4294967295 = 1 jited:0 238 PASS test_bpf: #141 ALU_DIV_X: 4294967295 / 4294967295 = 1 jited:1 23 PASS test_bpf: #776 JMP32_JGE_K: all ... magnitudes jited:0 2034681 PASS test_bpf: #776 JMP32_JGE_K: all ... magnitudes jited:1 1020022 PASS Deployment and structure ------------------------ The related codes are added to "arch/arc/net": - bpf_jit.h -- The interface that a back-end translator must provide - bpf_jit_core.c -- Knows how to handle the input eBPF byte stream - bpf_jit_arcv2.c -- The back-end code that knows the translation logic The bpf_int_jit_compile() at the end of bpf_jit_core.c is the entrance to the whole process. Normally, the translation is done in one pass, namely the "normal pass". In case some relocations are not known during this pass, some data (arc_jit_data) is allocated for the next pass to come. This possible next (and last) pass is called the "extra pass". 1. Normal pass # The necessary pass 1a. Dry run # Get the whole JIT length, epilogue offset, etc. 1b. Emit phase # Allocate memory and start emitting instructions 2. Extra pass # Only needed if there are relocations to be fixed 2a. Patch relocations Support status -------------- The JIT compiler supports BPF instructions up to "cpu=v4". However, it does not yet provide support for: - Tail calls - Atomic operations - 64-bit division/remainder - BPF_PROBE_MEM* (exception table) The result of "test_bpf" test suite on an HSDK board is: hsdk-lnx# insmod test_bpf.ko test_suite=test_bpf test_bpf: Summary: 863 PASSED, 186 FAILED, [851/851 JIT'ed] All the failing test cases are due to the ones that were not JIT'ed. Categorically, they can be represented as: .-----------.------------.-------------. | test type | opcodes | # of cases | |-----------+------------+-------------| | atomic | 0xC3, 0xDB | 149 | | div64 | 0x37, 0x3F | 22 | | mod64 | 0x97, 0x9F | 15 | `-----------^------------+-------------| | (total) 186 | `-------------' Setup: build config ------------------- The following configs must be set to have a working JIT test: CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y CONFIG_TEST_BPF=m The following options are not necessary for the tests module, but are good to have: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y # prerequisite for below CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y # so bpftool can generate vmlinux.h CONFIG_FTRACE=y # CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y # all these options lead to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y # having CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y # Some BPF programs provide data through /sys/kernel/debug: CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y arc# mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug Setup: elfutils --------------- The libdw.{so,a} library that is used by pahole for processing the final binary must come from elfutils 0.189 or newer. The support for ARCv2 [1] has been added since that version. [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=de3d46b3e7 Setup: pahole ------------- The line below in linux/scripts/Makefile.btf must be commented out: pahole-flags-$(call test-ge, $(pahole-ver), 121) += --btf_gen_floats Or else, the build will fail: $ make V=1 ... BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o pahole -J --btf_gen_floats \ -j --lang_exclude=rust \ --skip_encoding_btf_inconsistent_proto \ --btf_gen_optimized .tmp_vmlinux.btf Complex, interval and imaginary float types are not supported Encountered error while encoding BTF. ... BTFIDS vmlinux ./tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids vmlinux libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in vmlinux FAILED: load BTF from vmlinux: No data available This is due to the fact that the ARC toolchains generate "complex float" DIE entries in libgcc and at the moment, pahole can't handle such entries. Running the tests ----------------- host$ scp /bld/linux/lib/test_bpf.ko arc: arc # sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1 arc # insmod test_bpf.ko test_suite=test_bpf ... test_bpf: #1048 Staggered jumps: JMP32_JSLE_X jited:1 697811 PASS test_bpf: Summary: 863 PASSED, 186 FAILED, [851/851 JIT'ed] Acknowledgments --------------- - Claudiu Zissulescu for his unwavering support - Yuriy Kolerov for testing and troubleshooting - Vladimir Isaev for the pahole workaround - Sergey Matyukevich for paving the road by adding the interpreter support Signed-off-by: Shahab Vahedi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240430145604.38592-1-list+bpf@vahedi.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

ARC: mm: fix new code about cache aliasing

2024-04-02T01:40:39Z

Manual/partial revert of 8690bbcf3b70 ("Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() across all architectures") Current generation of ARCv2/ARCv3 based HSxx cores are only PIPT (to software at least). Legacy ARC700 cpus could be VIPT aliasing (based on cache geometry and PAGE_SIZE) [1] however recently that support was ripped out so VIPT aliasing cache is not relevant to ARC anymore. [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2023-February/006899.html Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-03-15T00:43:30Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390". - More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios" "mm: convert mm counter to take a folio" - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the scalability of zswap rb-tree". - Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some swap-intensive situations. - And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap: optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest. - zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series "mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()". - In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is hotplugged as system memory. - Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups", which does that. - More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series "mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable" "selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases" "Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements" "mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself" - In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory environments appearing with CXL. - Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump: Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute". - Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests". - Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol") format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party tools to parse and process out selftesting results. - Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the process has a large number of pte-mapped folios. - David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice. - And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings" Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work. - In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code. - In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction test", Mark Brown did what the title claims. - Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and refactoring". - Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend zswap kselftests" does as claimed. - In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary. - Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during certain userfaultfd operations. - Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador in his series "page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations" "page_owner: Fixup and cleanup" - Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark. - Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split crash out from kexec and clean up related config items". - Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series "mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration" "mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()" - Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio memory compaction". - Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages() to an iterator". - Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series "Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock". - Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios". - David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove total_mapcount()", a cleanup. - Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing". - Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot" provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages. - Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that. - Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that also. S390 is affected. - Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series "mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()". - Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM Selftests". - Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits) mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault() mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff() mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs mm/treewide: drop pXd_large() ...

arch: simplify architecture specific page size configuration

2024-03-06T18:29:03Z

arc, arm64, parisc and powerpc all have their own Kconfig symbols in place of the common CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_4KB symbols. Change these so the common symbols are the ones that are actually used, while leaving the arhcitecture specific ones as the user visible place for configuring it, to avoid breaking user configs. Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (powerpc32) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Helge Deller # parisc Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() across all architectures

2024-02-22T23:27:19Z

Introduce a generic way to query whether the data cache is virtually aliased on all architectures. Its purpose is to ensure that subsystems which are incompatible with virtually aliased data caches (e.g. FS_DAX) can reliably query this. For data cache aliasing, there are three scenarios dependending on the architecture. Here is a breakdown based on my understanding: A) The data cache is always aliasing: * arc * csky * m68k (note: shared memory mappings are incoherent ? SHMLBA is missing there.) * sh * parisc B) The data cache aliasing is statically known or depends on querying CPU state at runtime: * arm (cache_is_vivt() || cache_is_vipt_aliasing()) * mips (cpu_has_dc_aliases) * nios2 (NIOS2_DCACHE_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE) * sparc32 (vac_cache_size > PAGE_SIZE) * sparc64 (L1DCACHE_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE) * xtensa (DCACHE_WAY_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE) C) The data cache is never aliasing: * alpha * arm64 (aarch64) * hexagon * loongarch (but with incoherent write buffers, which are disabled since commit d23b7795 ("LoongArch: Change SHMLBA from SZ_64K to PAGE_SIZE")) * microblaze * openrisc * powerpc * riscv * s390 * um * x86 Require architectures in A) and B) to select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING and implement "cpu_dcache_is_aliasing()". Architectures in C) don't select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING, and thus cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() simply evaluates to "false". Note that this leaves "cpu_icache_is_aliasing()" to be implemented as future work. This would be useful to gate features like XIP on architectures which have aliasing CPU dcache-icache but not CPU dcache-dcache. Use "cpu_dcache" and "cpu_cache" rather than just "dcache" and "cache" to clarify that we really mean "CPU data cache" and "CPU cache" to eliminate any possible confusion with VFS "dentry cache" and "page cache". Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20030910210416.GA24258@mail.jlokier.co.uk/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215144633.96437-9-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches") Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: kernel test robot Cc: Michael Sclafani Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ARC: mm: retire support for aliasing VIPT D$

2023-12-09T00:30:24Z

Legacy ARC700 processors (first generation of MMU enabled ARC cores) had VIPT cached which could be configured such that they could alias. Corresponding support in kernel (with all the obnoxious cache flush overhead) was added in ARC port 10 years ago to support 1 silicon. That is long bygone and we can let it RIP. Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Merge tag 'arc-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

2023-09-04T22:38:24Z

Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta: - fixes for -Wmissing-prototype warnings - missing compiler barrier in relaxed atomics - some uaccess simplification, declutter - removal of massive glocal struct cpuinfo_arc from bootlog code - __switch_to consolidation (removal of inline asm variant) - use GP to cache task pointer (vs. r25) - misc rework of entry code * tag 'arc-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (24 commits) ARC: boot log: fix warning arc: Explicitly include correct DT includes ARC: pt_regs: create seperate type for ecr ARCv2: entry: rearrange pt_regs slightly ARC: entry: replace 8 byte ADD.ne with 4 byte ADD2.ne ARC: entry: replace 8 byte OR with 4 byte BSET ARC: entry: Add more common chores to EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE ARC: entry: EV_MachineCheck dont re-read ECR ARC: entry: ARcompact EV_ProtV to use r10 directly ARC: entry: rework (non-functional) ARC: __switch_to: move ksp to thread_info from thread_struct ARC: __switch_to: asm with dwarf ops (vs. inline asm) ARC: kernel stack: INIT_THREAD need not setup @init_stack in @ksp ARC: entry: use gp to cache task pointer (vs. r25) ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #4: boot log per ISA ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #3: don't export ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #2: cache ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #1: mm ARCv2: memset: don't prefetch for len == 0 which happens a alot ARC: uaccess: elide unaliged handling if hardware supports ...

arc: mm: convert to GENERIC_IOREMAP

2023-08-18T17:12:33Z

By taking GENERIC_IOREMAP method, the generic generic_ioremap_prot(), generic_iounmap(), and their generic wrapper ioremap_prot(), ioremap() and iounmap() are all visible and available to arch. Arch needs to provide wrapper functions to override the generic versions if there's arch specific handling in its ioremap_prot(), ioremap() or iounmap(). This change will simplify implementation by removing duplicated code with generic_ioremap_prot() and generic_iounmap(), and has the equivalent functioality as before. Here, add wrapper functions ioremap_prot() and iounmap() for arc's special operation when ioremap_prot() and iounmap(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230706154520.11257-8-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: David Laight Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Niklas Schnelle Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ARC: entry: use gp to cache task pointer (vs. r25)

2023-08-18T03:31:59Z

The motivation is eventual ABI considerations for ARCv3 but even without it this change us worthwhile as diffstat reduces 100 net lines r25 is a callee saved register, normally not saved by entry code in pt_regs. However because of its usage in CONFIG_ARC_CURR_IN_REG it needs to be. This in turn requires a whole bunch of special casing when we need to access r25. Then there is distinction between user mode r25 vs. kernel mode r25 - hence distinct SAVE_CALLEE_SAVED_{USER,KERNEL} Instead use gp which is a scratch register and thus saved already in entry code. This cleans things up significantly and much nocer on eyes: - SAVE_CALLEE_SAVED_{USER,KERNEL} are now exactly same - no special user_r25 slot in pt_reggs Note that typical global asm registers are callee-saved (r25), but gp is not callee-saved thus needs additional -ffixed- toggle Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta