A static branch hint will override dynamic branch prediction on
recent POWER CPUs. Since we are about to use more altivec in the
kernel remove the static hint in giveup_altivec that assumes
a userspace task is using altivec.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
---
Index: linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S
===================================================================
--- linux-powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S 2011-04-24
12:38:26.329650611 +1000
+++ linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S 2011-04-24 12:39:27.850785617
+1000
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ _GLOBAL(giveup_altivec)
MTMSRD(r5) /* enable use of VMX now */
isync
PPC_LCMPI 0,r3,0
- beqlr- /* if no previous owner, done */
+ beqlr /* if no previous owner, done */
addi r3,r3,THREAD /* want THREAD of task */
PPC_LL r5,PT_REGS(r3)
PPC_LCMPI 0,r5,0
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