On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:28:31AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The main change is to just use paca->kernel_toc, rather than a branch to
> +4 and mflr etc. That makes the code simpler and should also perform
> better.
Indeed.
> There was also a sequence after ftrace_call() where we load from
On 25/02/16 01:28, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The main change is to just use paca->kernel_toc, rather than a branch to
> +4 and mflr etc. That makes the code simpler and should also perform
> better.
>
> There was also a sequence after ftrace_call() where we load from
> pt_regs->nip, move to LR,
The main change is to just use paca->kernel_toc, rather than a branch to
+4 and mflr etc. That makes the code simpler and should also perform
better.
There was also a sequence after ftrace_call() where we load from
pt_regs->nip, move to LR, then a few instructions later load from LRSAVE
and move
