[PATCH v2 10/19] powerpc/8xx: Duplicate two insns instead of branching

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Aug 29 19:14:39 EST 2014


Branching takes two cycles on MPC8xx. Lets duplicate the two instructions
and avoid the branching.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index 5037420..4a49ff3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -638,9 +638,11 @@ modified_instr:
 
 	/* special handling for r10,r11 since these are modified already */
 153:	mfspr	r11, SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH1	/* load r11 from SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH1 */
-	b	155f
+	add	r10, r10, r11	/* add it */
+	mfctr	r11		/* restore r11 */
+	b	151b
 154:	mfspr	r11, SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH0	/* load r10 from SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH0 */
-155:	add	r10, r10, r11	/* add it */
+	add	r10, r10, r11	/* add it */
 	mfctr	r11		/* restore r11 */
 	b	151b
 #endif
-- 
1.7.1



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