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    [PATCH] ppc64: handle SLB misses in realmode · 24ad7bda
    David Gibson authored
    Tested on pSeries and iSeries.  Some future plans for VSID allocation may
    mean we have to take this out again, but that's a while off yet, and in the
    meantime it's a significant speedup.
    
    This patch makes the PPC64 SLB miss handler run in real mode (i.e.  MMU
    off) for it's whole duration, on pSeries machines.  Avoiding the rfid used
    to turn relocation on saves some 70-80 cycles on Power4 and Power5.  Not
    having to save and restore SRR0 and SRR1 saves a few more, and means we
    don't need an extra save slot for r3.  Overall there's around a 27% speedup
    on Power4.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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