linux-stable/arch/arm64
Peter Crosthwaite 1baa82f480 arm64: Implement cpu_relax as yield
ARM64 has the yield nop hint which has the intended semantics of
cpu_relax. Implement.

The immediate application is ARM CPU emulators. An emulator can take
advantage of the yield hint to de-prioritise an emulated CPU in favor
of other emulation tasks. QEMU A64 SMP emulation has yield awareness,
and sees a significant boot time performance increase with this change.

Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-03-17 10:17:29 +00:00
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boot dtb: change binding name to match with newer firmware DT 2015-03-04 15:54:14 -05:00
configs ARM: SoC 64-bit changes and additions 2015-02-17 09:47:46 -08:00
crypto arm64: crypto: increase AES interleave to 4x 2015-02-26 18:31:46 +00:00
include arm64: Implement cpu_relax as yield 2015-03-17 10:17:29 +00:00
kernel arm64: put __boot_cpu_mode label after alignment instead of before 2015-03-14 11:02:26 +00:00
kvm Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features. 2015-02-13 09:55:09 -08:00
lib arm64: __clear_user: handle exceptions on strb 2014-11-13 15:21:26 +00:00
mm arm64: Don't use is_module_addr in setting page attributes 2015-03-06 12:04:22 +00:00
net arm64: bpf: lift restriction on last instruction 2014-12-03 18:04:09 +00:00
xen arm: xen: implement multicall hypercall support. 2014-04-24 13:09:46 +01:00
Kconfig ARM: SoC 64-bit changes and additions 2015-02-17 09:47:46 -08:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: add better page protections to arm64 2015-01-22 14:54:29 +00:00
Makefile arm64 updates for 3.20: 2015-02-11 18:03:54 -08:00