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Anthony Yznaga a7159a87a3 sparc64: speed up etrap/rtrap on NG2 and later processors
For many sun4v processor types, reading or writing a privileged register
has a latency of 40 to 70 cycles.  Use a combination of the low-latency
allclean, otherw, normalw, and nop instructions in etrap and rtrap to
replace 2 rdpr and 5 wrpr instructions and improve etrap/rtrap
performance.  allclean, otherw, and normalw are available on NG2 and
later processors.

The average ticks to execute the flush windows trap ("ta 0x3") with and
without this patch on select platforms:

 CPU            Not patched     Patched    % Latency Reduction

 NG2            1762            1558            -11.58
 NG4            3619            3204            -11.47
 M7             3015            2624            -12.97
 SPARC64-X      829             770              -7.12

Signed-off-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-09-09 20:20:11 -07:00
arch sparc64: speed up etrap/rtrap on NG2 and later processors 2017-09-09 20:20:11 -07:00
block blk-mq: don't leak preempt counter/q_usage_counter when allocating rq failed 2017-08-02 08:23:57 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
Documentation Pin control fixes for the v4.13 cycle: 2017-08-09 14:30:34 -07:00
drivers sparc64: vcc: make ktermios const 2017-08-29 15:10:44 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Changes since last update: 2017-08-07 18:16:22 -07:00
include Pin control fixes for the v4.13 cycle: 2017-08-09 14:30:34 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel futex: Remove unnecessary warning from get_futex_key 2017-08-09 14:00:54 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-31 22:36:42 -07:00
mm mm: take memory hotplug lock within numa_zonelist_order_handler() 2017-08-02 17:16:11 -07:00
net packet: fix tp_reserve race in packet_set_ring 2017-08-10 09:52:12 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts parse-maintainers: Move matching sections from MAINTAINERS 2017-08-08 11:16:14 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.13 2017-08-02 17:11:45 +02:00
tools bpf: fix selftest/bpf/test_pkt_md_access on s390x 2017-08-07 10:06:27 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-03 17:59:58 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS sparc64: vcc: Enable VCC module in linux 2017-08-15 21:33:50 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc4 2017-08-06 18:44:49 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.