powerpc: Create context switch helpers save_sprs() and restore_sprs()
Move all our context switch SPR save and restore code into two helpers. We do a few optimisations: - Group all mfsprs and all mtsprs. In many cases an mtspr sets a scoreboarding bit that an mfspr waits on, so the current practise of mfspr A; mtspr A; mfpsr B; mtspr B is the worst scheduling we can do. - SPR writes are slow, so check that the value is changing before writing it. A context switch microbenchmark using yield(): http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c ./context_switch2 --test=yield 0 0 shows an improvement of almost 10% on POWER8. Signed-off-by:Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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