powerpc: Disable the fast-endian switch syscall by default
Back in 2008 we added support for "fast little-endian switch" in the syscall path. This added a special case syscall number 0x1ebe, which is caught very early in the system call exception and switches endian with as little overhead as possible. See commit 745a14cc ("[POWERPC] Add fast little-endian switch system call") for full details. Although it is fast, it's also completely non standard. The "syscall number" is out of the range of normal syscalls, it can't be traced or audited, and it's a bit of a wart. To the best of our knowledge it was only used by one program, now long since discontinued. So in an effort to shake out any current users, put it behind a config option, and make it default n. If anyone *is* using it they can quickly reinstate it with a rebuild, and we can flip it to default y. Signed-off-by:Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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