powerpc: No need to save XER in a system call
The XER is a volatile register so there is no need to save and restore it over a system call - zero it out in the exception stack frame instead. This should fix a 5 cycle stall of the mfxer/std seen on POWER7. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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