Don't pre-check write access on read-only pages on data TLB error. Load the TLB anyway and take a DSI exception when it happens. This avoids reading SPRN_ESR at every data TLB error exception. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v5: New --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_85xx.S | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_85xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_85xx.S index a305244afc9f..282e49c51deb 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_85xx.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_85xx.S @@ -472,27 +472,12 @@ END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION #endif 4: - /* Mask of required permission bits. Note that while we - * do copy ESR:ST to _PAGE_WRITE position as trying to write - * to an RO page is pretty common, we don't do it with - * _PAGE_DIRTY. We could do it, but it's a fairly rare - * event so I'd rather take the overhead when it happens - * rather than adding an instruction here. We should measure - * whether the whole thing is worth it in the first place - * as we could avoid loading SPRN_ESR completely in the first - * place... - * - * TODO: Is it worth doing that mfspr & rlwimi in the first - * place or can we save a couple of instructions here ? - */ - mfspr r12,SPRN_ESR #ifdef CONFIG_PTE_64BIT li r13,_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_BAP_SR oris r13,r13,_PAGE_ACCESSED@h #else li r13,_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_READ|_PAGE_ACCESSED #endif - rlwimi r13,r12,11,29,29 FIND_PTE andc. r13,r13,r11 /* Check permission */ -- 2.44.0