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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

  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 ` 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                       ` [musl] " Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22  7:15                         ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-22  7:31                           ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22  8:11                             ` Florian Weimer

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