Christophe Leroy 5b90b9661a powerpc/syscall: Avoid storing 'current' in another pointer ...

By saving the pointer pointing to thread_info.flags, gcc copies r2
in a non-volatile register.

We know 'current' doesn't change, so avoid that intermediaite pointer.

Reduces null_syscall benchmark by 2 cycles (322 => 320 cycles)

On PPC64, gcc seems to know that 'current' is not changing, and it keeps
it in a non volatile register to avoid multiple read of 'current' in paca.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ad0363ff0ff8c125f40e1cdc589a85bbd7e31693.1612946484.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

2021-02-11 23:35:13 +11:00

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