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Commit 87067a93 authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King
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ARM: Optimize multi-CPU tlb flushing a little more



The compiler does not conditionalize the assembly instructions for
the tlb operations, which leads to sub-optimal code being generated
when building a kernel for multiple CPUs.

We can tweak things fairly simply as the code fragment below shows:

    17f8:       e3120001        tst     r2, #1  ; 0x1
...
    1800:       0a000000        beq     1808 <handle_pte_fault+0x194>
    1804:       ee061f10        mcr     15, 0, r1, cr6, cr0, {0}
    1808:       e3120004        tst     r2, #4  ; 0x4
    180c:       0a000000        beq     1814 <handle_pte_fault+0x1a0>
    1810:       ee081f36        mcr     15, 0, r1, cr8, cr6, {1}
becomes:
    17f0:       e3120001        tst     r2, #1  ; 0x1
    17f4:       1e063f10        mcrne   15, 0, r3, cr6, cr0, {0}
    17f8:       e3120004        tst     r2, #4  ; 0x4
    17fc:       1e083f36        mcrne   15, 0, r3, cr8, cr6, {1}

Overall, for Realview with V6 and V7 CPUs configured:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4153998  207340 5371036 9732374  948116 ../build/realview/vmlinux.before
4153366  207332 5371036 9731734  947e96 ../build/realview/vmlinux.after

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent d9277d51
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