powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions
authorSam bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 01:06:32 +0000 (11:06 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 07:10:28 +0000 (17:10 +1000)
commitb4b56f9ecab40f3b4ef53e130c9f6663be491894
treefb469b542c15a246790eca454d405bef3dc2c227
parentb5926430dfa07d17e5d768c16b0d81c13a793f7c
powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions

This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported.  It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended.  It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/tm.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-syscall.c