linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Joshua Kinard 8d5ded16ee MIPS: R12000: Enable branch prediction global history
The R12000 added a new feature to enhance branch prediction called
"global history".  Per the Vr10000 Series User Manual (U10278EJ4V0UM),
Coprocessor 0, Diagnostic Register (22):

"""
If bit 26 is set, branch prediction uses all eight bits of the global
history register.  If bit 26 is not set, then bits 25:23 specify a count
of the number of bits of global history to be used. Thus if bits 26:23
are all zero, global history is disabled.

The global history contains a record of the taken/not-taken status of
recently executed branches, and when used is XOR'ed with the PC of a
branch being predicted to produce a hashed value for indexing the BPT.
Some programs with small "working set of conditional branches" benefit
significantly from the use of such hashing, some see slight performance
degradation.
"""

This patch enables global history on R12000 CPUs and up by setting bit
26 in the branch prediction diagnostic register (CP0 $22) to '1'.  Bits
25:23 are left alone so that all eight bits of the global history
register are available for branch prediction.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2015-06-21 21:54:13 +02:00
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alpha alpha: kernel: osf_sys: Set 'kts.tv_nsec' only when 'tv' has effect 2015-05-26 10:01:51 -07:00
arc ARC: inline cache flush toggle helpers 2015-05-11 11:21:41 +05:30
arm Omap fixes for the -rc cycle, including a fix for potential hardware 2015-06-08 10:32:55 -07:00
arm64 - dts: mt8173: fix compatible string 2015-06-01 17:06:51 +02:00
avr32 Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2015-04-15 13:53:55 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: Fix build error 2015-06-10 10:19:24 -07:00
c6x C6X Fixes for v4.1 2015-04-16 18:48:55 -04:00
cris CRIS changes for 4.1 2015-04-26 13:31:05 -07:00
frv Devicetree updates for 4.1: 2015-04-24 08:46:18 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2015-04-15 13:53:55 -07:00
ia64 ia64: make cpu_callin_map non-volatile. 2015-06-02 10:07:03 -07:00
m32r m32r: make flush_cpumask non-volatile. 2015-05-09 11:09:29 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2015-04-20 10:12:29 -07:00
metag Metag architecture changes for v4.1 2015-04-24 07:56:50 -07:00
microblaze microblaze: use asm-generic for seccomp.h 2015-04-17 09:04:10 -04:00
mips MIPS: R12000: Enable branch prediction global history 2015-06-21 21:54:13 +02:00
mn10300 Devicetree updates for 4.1: 2015-04-24 08:46:18 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.1-rc1 2015-04-24 07:59:07 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-04-15 16:39:15 -07:00
parisc parisc,metag: Fix crashes due to stack randomization on stack-grows-upwards architectures 2015-05-12 22:03:44 +02:00
powerpc This pull request includes a fix for two oopses, one on PPC 2015-05-21 20:15:16 -07:00
s390 s390/bpf: fix bpf frame pointer setup 2015-06-03 19:31:39 -07:00
score score: Fix exception handler label 2015-06-10 10:19:47 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2015-04-24 09:49:37 -07:00
sparc sparc: Resolve conflict between sparc v9 and M7 on usage of bit 9 of TTE 2015-05-31 22:15:01 -07:00
tile tile: properly use node_isset() on a nodemask_t 2015-04-28 10:36:45 -04:00
um Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2015-04-15 13:53:55 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2015-04-15 13:53:55 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-14 14:00:13 -10:00
xtensa xtensa: Provide dummy dma_alloc_attrs() and dma_free_attrs() 2015-05-25 23:03:16 +00:00
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Kconfig powerpc updates for 4.1 2015-04-16 13:53:32 -05:00