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Commit e9bdc3d6 authored by Michael Neuling's avatar Michael Neuling Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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powerpc/tm: Switch out userspace PPR and DSCR sooner



When we do a treclaim or trecheckpoint we end up running with userspace
PPR and DSCR values.  Currently we don't do anything special to avoid
running with user values which could cause a severe performance
degradation.

This patch moves the PPR and DSCR save and restore around treclaim and
trecheckpoint so that we run with user values for a much shorter period.
More care is taken with the PPR as it's impact is greater than the DSCR.

This is similar to user exceptions, where we run HTM_MEDIUM early to
ensure that we don't run with a userspace PPR values in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent c69e63b0
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