linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm
Sam bobroff b4b56f9eca 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>
2015-06-19 17:10:28 +10:00
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auxvec.h
bitsperlong.h
bootx.h
byteorder.h powerpc: Include the appropriate endianness header 2013-10-11 16:48:33 +11:00
cputable.h powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions 2015-06-19 17:10:28 +10:00
eeh.h powerpc/eeh: Introduce eeh_pe_inject_err() 2015-05-12 20:33:35 +10:00
elf.h powerpc: Handle new ELFv2 module relocations 2014-04-23 10:05:29 +10:00
epapr_hcalls.h
errno.h
fcntl.h
ioctl.h
ioctls.h
ipcbuf.h
Kbuild powerpc/include: Add opal-prd to installed uapi headers 2015-06-18 07:16:02 +10:00
kvm_para.h KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests 2014-05-30 14:26:24 +02:00
kvm.h KVM: PPC: Move ONE_REG AltiVec support to powerpc 2014-09-22 10:11:33 +02:00
mman.h
msgbuf.h
nvram.h
opal-prd.h powerpc/powernv: Add opal-prd channel 2015-06-05 08:32:21 +10:00
param.h
perf_event.h powerpc/perf: Export PERF_EVENT_CONFIG_EBB_SHIFT to userspace 2013-08-01 13:11:46 +10:00
poll.h
posix_types.h
ps3fb.h
ptrace.h powerpc: Change vrX register defines to vX to match gcc and glibc 2015-03-16 18:32:11 +11:00
resource.h
sembuf.h
setup.h powerpc: Bump COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048 2014-04-28 16:31:58 +10:00
shmbuf.h
sigcontext.h
siginfo.h
signal.h powerpc: switch to generic old sigaction() 2013-02-03 18:16:10 -05:00
socket.h net: sock: allow eBPF programs to be attached to sockets 2014-12-05 21:47:32 -08:00
sockios.h
spu_info.h
stat.h
statfs.h
swab.h
termbits.h
termios.h
tm.h powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions 2015-06-19 17:10:28 +10:00
types.h
ucontext.h
unistd.h powerpc: Add a proper syscall for switching endianness 2015-03-28 22:03:40 +11:00