[PATCH 4.0 21/72] Revert "MIPS: Avoid pipeline stalls on some MIPS32R2 cores."

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 11 2015 - 13:55:53 EST


4.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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Commit 9eaffa84a8a46adab065c983401fc9d5949c958f upstream.

For a discussion, see http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9539/.

This reverts commit 625c0a21700bdb90844d926a1508a17a77e369c9.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c | 21 ++-------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
@@ -501,26 +501,9 @@ static void build_tlb_write_entry(u32 **
case tlb_indexed: tlbw = uasm_i_tlbwi; break;
}

- if (cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard) {
- /*
- * The architecture spec says an ehb is required here,
- * but a number of cores do not have the hazard and
- * using an ehb causes an expensive pipeline stall.
- */
- switch (current_cpu_type()) {
- case CPU_M14KC:
- case CPU_74K:
- case CPU_1074K:
- case CPU_PROAPTIV:
- case CPU_P5600:
- case CPU_M5150:
- case CPU_QEMU_GENERIC:
- break;
-
- default:
+ if (cpu_has_mips_r2_r6) {
+ if (cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard)
uasm_i_ehb(p);
- break;
- }
tlbw(p);
return;
}


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