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    powerpc/pseries: Use jump labels for hcall tracepoints · cc1adb5f
    Anton Blanchard authored
    hcall tracepoints add quite a few instructions to our hcall path:
    
    plpar_hcall:
    	mr      r2,r2
    	mfcr    r0
    	stw     r0,8(r1)
    	b       164		<---- start
    	ld      r12,0(r2)
    	std     r12,32(r1)
    	cmpdi   r12,0
    	beq     164		<---- end
    ...
    
    We have an unconditional branch that gets noped out during boot and
    a load/compare/branch. We also store the tracepoint value to the
    stack for the hcall_exit path to use.
    
    By using jump labels we can simplify this to just a single nop that
    gets replaced with a branch when the tracepoint is enabled:
    
    plpar_hcall:
    	mr      r2,r2
    	mfcr    r0
    	stw     r0,8(r1)
    	nop			<----
    ...
    
    If jump labels are not enabled, we fall back to the old method.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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