1. 10 Nov, 2004 2 commits
    • David Mosberger's avatar
      [IA64] speedup ptrace by avoiding kernel-stack walk · 47651db7
      David Mosberger authored
      This patch changes the syscall entry path to store the
      current-frame-mask (CFM) in pt_regs->cr_ifs.  This just takes one
      extra instruction (a "dep" to clear the bits other than 0-37) and is
      free in terms of cycles.
      
      The advantage of doing this is that it lets ptrace() avoid having to
      walk the stack to determine the end of the user-level backing-store of
      a process which is in the middle of a system-call.  Since this is what
      strace does all the time, this speeds up strace quite a bit (by ~50%).
      More importantly, it makes the syscall vs. non-syscall case much more
      symmetric, which is always something I wanted.
      
      Note that the change to ivt.S looks big but this is just a rippling
      effect of instruction-scheduling to keep syscall latency the same.
      All that's really going on there is that instead of storing 0 into
      cr_ifs member we store the low 38 bits of ar.pfs.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      47651db7
    • Tony Luck's avatar
      Merge intel.com:/data/home/aegl/BK/Linus · de4514ac
      Tony Luck authored
      into intel.com:/data/home/aegl/BK/linux-ia64-release-2.6.10
      de4514ac
  2. 09 Nov, 2004 37 commits
  3. 08 Nov, 2004 1 commit