Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/64s/exception: remove bad stack branch

2019-07-04 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 06:33:18 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > The bad stack test in interrupt handlers has a few problems. For > performance it is taken in the common case, which is a fetch bubble > and a waste of i-cache. > > For code development and maintainence, it requires yet another stack > f

[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/64s/exception: remove bad stack branch

2019-06-27 Thread Nicholas Piggin
The bad stack test in interrupt handlers has a few problems. For performance it is taken in the common case, which is a fetch bubble and a waste of i-cache. For code development and maintainence, it requires yet another stack frame setup routine, and that constrains all exception handlers to follo