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2020-10-15docs: powerpc: syscall64-abi.rst: fix a malformed tableMauro Carvalho Chehab
As reported: Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst:53: WARNING: Malformed table. Text in column margin in table line 2. =========== ============= ======================================== --- For the sc instruction, differences with the ELF ABI --- r0 Volatile (System call number.) This table requires a different notation to be valid. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-08-27Documentation/powerpc: fix malformed table in syscall64-abiRandy Dunlap
Fix malformed table warning in powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst by making two tables and moving the headings. Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst:53: WARNING: Malformed table. Text in column margin in table line 2. =========== ============= ======================================== --- For the sc instruction, differences with the ELF ABI --- r0 Volatile (System call number.) r3 Volatile (Parameter 1, and return value.) r4-r8 Volatile (Parameters 2-6.) cr0 Volatile (cr0.SO is the return error condition.) cr1, cr5-7 Nonvolatile lr Nonvolatile --- For the scv 0 instruction, differences with the ELF ABI --- r0 Volatile (System call number.) r3 Volatile (Parameter 1, and return value.) r4-r8 Volatile (Parameters 2-6.) =========== ============= ======================================== Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e06de4d3-a36f-2745-9775-467e125436cc@infradead.org
2020-07-22powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructionsNicholas Piggin
Add support for the scv instruction on POWER9 and later CPUs. For now this implements the zeroth scv vector 'scv 0', as identical to 'sc' system calls, with the exception that LR is not preserved, nor are volatile CR registers, and error is not indicated with CR0[SO], but by returning a negative errno. rfscv is implemented to return from scv type system calls. It can not be used to return from sc system calls because those are defined to preserve LR. getpid syscall throughput on POWER9 is improved by 26% (428 to 318 cycles), largely due to reducing mtmsr and mtspr. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Fix ppc64e build] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611081203.995112-3-npiggin@gmail.com
2019-07-17docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert docs to ReST and add them to the arch-specific book. The conversion here was trivial, as almost every file there was already using an elegant format close to ReST standard. The changes were mostly to mark literal blocks and add a few missing section title identifiers. One note with regards to "--": on Sphinx, this can't be used to identify a list, as it will format it badly. This can be used, however, to identify a long hyphen - and "---" is an even longer one. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> # cxl