[PATCH] powerpc/booke: Eliminate rfi from exception entry path.
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jul 11 10:47:41 EST 2012
On 07/10/2012 07:44 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 11.07.2012, at 02:34, Scott Wood wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_BOOKE
>> + /*
>> + * We're not changing address space on Book E, and the extra rfi
>> + * can hurt when virtualized without hardware support -- whereas
>> + * mtmsr can be paravirtualized.
>
> We can always paravirtualize RFI as well if it makes sense.
I'm not sure that's possible. We thought about it a while back, but
IIRC the difficulty was not leaving a register clobbered.
-Scott
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