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Author SHA1 Message Date
Rob Herring
14318efb32 ARM: 7587/1: implement optimized percpu variable access
Use the previously unused TPIDRPRW register to store percpu offsets.
TPIDRPRW is only accessible in PL1, so it can only be used in the kernel.

This replaces 2 loads with a mrc instruction for each percpu variable
access. With hackbench, the performance improvement is 1.4% on Cortex-A9
(highbank). Taking an average of 30 runs of "hackbench -l 1000" yields:

Before: 6.2191
After: 6.1348

Will Deacon reported similar delta on v6 with 11MPCore.

The asm "memory clobber" are needed here to ensure the percpu offset
gets reloaded. Testing by Will found that this would not happen in
__schedule() which is a bit of a special case as preemption is disabled
but the execution can move cores.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-03 11:16:36 +00:00
Stephen Boyd
3f8e288033 ARM: 7006/1: Migrate to asm-generic wrapper support
With d8ecc5c (kbuild: asm-generic support, 2011-04-27) we can
remove a handful of asm-generic wrappers in ARM code. Since the
generic version of sizes.h doesn't contain SZ_48M, we replace
the 4 users of SZ_48M with the equivalent SZ_32M + SZ_16M.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-17 09:12:40 +01:00
Russell King
4baa992243 [ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm
Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-02 21:32:35 +01:00