Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> writes: > There is no point in copying floating point regs when there > is no FPU and MATH_EMULATION is not selected.
Yeah I guess you're right. I've never touched a system with neither, but if such a thing exists then it does seem silly to copy regs around that can't be used. > Create a new CONFIG_PPC_FPU_REGS bool that is selected by > CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION and CONFIG_PPC_FPU, and use it to > opt out everything related to fp_state in thread_struct. > > The following app runs in approx 10.50 seconds on an 8xx without > the patch, and in 9.45 seconds with the patch. > > void sigusr1(int sig) { } > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > int i = 100000; > > signal(SIGUSR1, sigusr1); > for (;i--;) > raise(SIGUSR1); > exit(0); > } > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> > --- > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + > arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 2 ++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 ++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 4 ++++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c | 8 ++++++++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c | 4 ++++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c | 12 +++++++++++- > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 4 ++++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++++ > arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 4 ++++ > 10 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) In general this looks fine. It's a bit #ifdef heavy. Maybe some of those can be cleaned up a bit with some wrapper inlines? > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c > b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c > index b2dc4e92d11a..8f87a11f3f8c 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c > @@ -28,6 +29,9 @@ int fpr_get(struct task_struct *target, const struct > user_regset *regset, > > return user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, > &target->thread.fp_state, 0, -1); > +#else > + return 0; > +#endif Should we return -ENODEV/EIO here? Wonder if another arch can give us a clue. cheers