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powerpc/64s: Optimize hypercall/syscall entry
After bc35512 ("powerpc/64: Allow for relocation-on interrupts from guest to host"), a getppid() system call goes from 307 cycles to 358 cycles (+17%) on POWER8. This is due significantly to the scratch SPR used by the hypercall check. It turns out there are a some volatile registers common to both system call and hypercall (in particular, r12, cr0, ctr), which can be used to avoid the SPR and some other overheads. This brings getppid to 320 cycles (+4%). Testing hcall entry performance by running "sc 1" in guest userspace before this patch is 854 cycles, afterwards is 826. Also a small win there. POWER9 syscall is improved by about the same amount, hcall not tested. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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