[PATCH] powerpc: Add POWER9 copy_page() loop
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Mon Apr 3 10:54:34 AEST 2017
Hi Nick,
> > Good idea, I hadn't thought of embedding it all in a feature
> > section.
>
> It may not work currently because you get those ftr_alt_97 relocation
> errors with the "else" parts because relative branches to other code
> need to be direct and I think reachable from both places.
I thought about this a bit more. One potential issue will be
profiling - perf annotate will match the samples against the unpatched
code which could be very confusing.
Anton
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