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authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>2009-05-12 19:41:53 (GMT)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2009-06-17 10:06:26 (GMT)
commit41f0e4d041aa30507a34998c29d0b7ac0bede277 (patch)
tree7e84895b367ff6cfad682c6177c5ff706bb177c8
parent95affdda9bfba0ac17025d48c622e1f30964e316 (diff)
downloadlinux-41f0e4d041aa30507a34998c29d0b7ac0bede277.tar.xz
MIPS: Allow R2 CPUs to turn off generation of 'ehb' instructions.
Some CPUs do not need ehb instructions after writing CP0 registers. By allowing ehb generation to be overridden in cpu-feature-overrides.h, we can save a few instructions in the TLB handler hot paths. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h4
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
index c0047f8..1cba4b2 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@
#define cpu_has_mips_r (cpu_has_mips32r1 | cpu_has_mips32r2 | \
cpu_has_mips64r1 | cpu_has_mips64r2)
+#ifndef cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard
+#define cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard cpu_has_mips_r2
+#endif
+
/*
* MIPS32, MIPS64, VR5500, IDT32332, IDT32334 and maybe a few other
* pre-MIPS32/MIPS53 processors have CLO, CLZ. For 64-bit kernels
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
index d9a18b2..0e34faa 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ static void __cpuinit build_tlb_write_entry(u32 **p, struct uasm_label **l,
}
if (cpu_has_mips_r2) {
- uasm_i_ehb(p);
+ if (cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard)
+ uasm_i_ehb(p);
tlbw(p);
return;
}