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| author | LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> | 2015-09-16 12:04:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2015-09-17 02:36:53 +0200 |
| commit | 400c47d81ca383fc87d5a3937b234e23e26909fb (patch) | |
| tree | 88220b38cf548853e2866458ee3eb8e50bbc77f8 /arch/powerpc/kernel | |
| parent | powerpc32: memcpy: only use dcbz once cache is enabled (diff) | |
| download | linux-400c47d81ca383fc87d5a3937b234e23e26909fb.tar.xz linux-400c47d81ca383fc87d5a3937b234e23e26909fb.zip | |
powerpc32: memset: only use dcbz once cache is enabled
memset() uses instruction dcbz to speed up clearing by not wasting time
loading cache line with data that will be overwritten.
Some platform like mpc52xx do no have cache active at startup and
can therefore not use memset(). Allthough no part of the code
explicitly uses memset(), GCC may make calls to it.
This patch modifies memset() such that at startup, memset()
unconditionally skip the optimised bloc that uses dcbz instruction.
Once the initial MMU is set up, in machine_init() we patch memset()
by replacing this inconditional jump by a NOP
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c index b316ab787a3b..ad8c9db61237 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ notrace unsigned long __init early_init(unsigned long dt_ptr) * This is called very early on the boot process, after a minimal * MMU environment has been set up but before MMU_init is called. */ +extern unsigned int memset_nocache_branch; /* Insn to be replaced by NOP */ + notrace void __init machine_init(u64 dt_ptr) { lockdep_init(); @@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ notrace void __init machine_init(u64 dt_ptr) udbg_early_init(); patch_instruction((unsigned int *)&memcpy, PPC_INST_NOP); + patch_instruction(&memset_nocache_branch, PPC_INST_NOP); /* Do some early initialization based on the flat device tree */ early_init_devtree(__va(dt_ptr)); |