linux/arch/powerpc
Nicholas Piggin 9145effd62 powerpc/64: Drop explicit hwsync in context switch
The sync (aka. hwsync, aka. heavyweight sync) in the context switch
code to prevent MMIO access being reordered from the point of view of
a single process if it gets migrated to a different CPU is not
required because there is an hwsync performed earlier in the context
switch path.

Comment this so it's clear enough if anything changes on the scheduler
or the powerpc sides. Remove the hwsync from _switch.

This improves context switch performance by 2-3% on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
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boot powerpc/64: Do not link crtsaveres.o in boot 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
configs powerpc/44x/fsp2: Add defconfig for FSP2 board 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-05-02 15:53:46 -07:00
include powerpc/64: Drop explicit hwsync in context switch 2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
kernel powerpc/64: Drop explicit hwsync in context switch 2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
kvm KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Don't include SPAPR TCE code on non-pseries platforms 2017-05-12 15:32:30 +10:00
lib powerpc/lib/xor_vmx: Ensure no altivec code executes before enable_kernel_altivec() 2017-06-02 20:17:52 +10:00
math-emu Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mm powerpc/mm/radix: Only add X for pages overlapping kernel text 2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
net powerpc updates for 4.11 part 1. 2017-02-22 10:30:38 -08:00
oprofile ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
perf powerpc/perf: Add Power8 mem_access event to sysfs 2017-04-19 20:00:23 +10:00
platforms powerpc: Fix some spelling mistakes 2017-06-05 16:50:15 +10:00
purgatory kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up 2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
sysdev powerpc: Fix some spelling mistakes 2017-06-05 16:50:15 +10:00
tools powerpc/64: Tool to check head sections location sanity 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: Fix compile error with PPC_8xx=y 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
Kconfig powerpc: Remove __ilog2()s and use generic ones 2017-06-02 19:23:56 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/xmon: Enable disassembly files (compilation changes) 2017-02-15 20:02:42 +11:00
Makefile powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
Makefile.postlink powerpc/64: Tool to check head sections location sanity 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00