powerpc: Don't disable kernel FP/VMX/VSX MSR bits on context switch
Writing the MSR is slow, so we want to avoid it whenever possible. A subsequent patch will add a debug option that strictly manages the FP/VMX/VSX unavailable bits. For now just remove it, matching what we do in other areas of the kernel (eg enable_kernel_altivec()). A context switch microbenchmark using yield(): http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c ./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp 0 0 shows an improvement of almost 3% on POWER8. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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