From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-dev@lists.llvm.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [musl] Powerpc Linux 'scv' system call ABI proposal take 2
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:21:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8k7dJdVS1LJRrGkxhbeVeXeGX2CWfC6sT--aso69Ksp6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1586994952.nnxigedbu2.astroid@bobo.none>
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:17 PM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 16, 2020 8:55 am:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:45:09AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> I would like to enable Linux support for the powerpc 'scv' instruction,
> >> as a faster system call instruction.
> >>
> >> This requires two things to be defined: Firstly a way to advertise to
> >> userspace that kernel supports scv, and a way to allocate and advertise
> >> support for individual scv vectors. Secondly, a calling convention ABI
> >> for this new instruction.
> >> ...
> > Note that any libc that actually makes use of the new functionality is
> > not going to be able to make clobbers conditional on support for it;
> > branching around different clobbers is going to defeat any gains vs
> > always just treating anything clobbered by either method as clobbered.
>
> Well it would have to test HWCAP and patch in or branch to two
> completely different sequences including register save/restores yes.
> You could have the same asm and matching clobbers to put the sequence
> inline and then you could patch the one sc/scv instruction I suppose.
Could GCC function multiversioning work here?
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionMultiVersioning
It seems like selecting a runtime version of a function is the sort of
thing you are trying to do.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 21:45 Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-15 22:55 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2020-04-16 0:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 0:48 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 2:24 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 2:35 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 2:53 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 3:03 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 3:41 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 20:18 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 9:58 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-04-20 0:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 1:29 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-20 2:08 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 21:17 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-04-21 9:57 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 15:21 ` Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2020-04-16 15:40 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 4:48 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 15:35 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 16:42 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 16:52 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 23:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-17 0:34 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-17 1:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-17 8:34 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 14:16 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-16 15:37 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 17:50 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-16 17:59 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:18 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-16 18:31 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:44 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-20 0:46 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 1:10 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 1:34 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-20 2:32 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 4:09 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-20 4:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 17:27 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-22 6:18 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22 6:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-23 2:36 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-23 12:13 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-23 16:18 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-23 16:35 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-23 16:43 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-23 17:15 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-23 17:42 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-25 3:40 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-25 4:52 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-25 3:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-21 12:28 ` David Laight
2020-04-21 14:39 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-21 15:00 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-21 15:31 ` David Laight
2020-04-22 6:54 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22 7:15 ` [musl] " Florian Weimer
2020-04-22 7:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22 8:11 ` Florian Weimer
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