ia64: Restructure pt_regs and optimize syscall path.
Patch by Rohit Seth, Fengua Yu, and Arun Sharma: Please find attached a patch for kernel entry exit optimization. This is based on 2.5.69 kernel. The main items covered by this patch are: 1) Support for 16 bytes instructions as per SDM2.1 (CSD/SSD in pt_regs) 2) f10-f11 are added as additional scratch registers for kernel's use. 3) Re-arrange pt_regs to access less cache lines in system call. Reduce scratch register saving/restoring in system call path. 4) A few instruction reorg in low-level code.
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