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Nicholas Piggin 07d2a628bc powerpc/64s: Avoid cpabort in context switch when possible
The ISA v3.0B copy-paste facility only requires cpabort when switching
to a process that has foreign real addresses mapped (direct access to
accelerators), to clear a potential copy buffer filled by a previous
thread. There is no accelerator driver implemented yet, so cpabort can
be removed. It can be be re-added when a driver is implemented.

POWER9 DD1 requires the copy buffer to always be cleared on context
switch, but if accelerators are not in use, then an unpaired copy from
a dummy region is sufficient to clear data out of the copy buffer.

This increases context switch performance by about 5% on POWER9.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
arch powerpc/64s: Avoid cpabort in context switch when possible 2017-06-15 16:34:39 +10:00
block Merge branch 'nvme-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-linus 2017-05-26 09:11:19 -06:00
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Documentation powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reserved 2017-06-02 20:16:49 +10:00
drivers cxl: Unlock on error in probe 2017-06-06 19:23:52 +10:00
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Makefile Linux 4.12-rc3 2017-05-28 17:20:53 -07:00
README

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.