On the 34K the redundant cache operations were causing excessive stalls
resulting in realtime code running on the second VPE missing its deadline.
For all other platforms this patch is just a significant performance
improvment as illustrated by below benchmark numbers.

Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS  Mhz null null      open slct sig  sig  fork exec sh
                             call  I/O stat clos TCP  inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
25Kf      2.6.18-rc4     533 0.49 1.16 7.57 33.4 30.5 1.34 12.4 5497 17.K 54.K
25Kf      2.6.18-rc4-p   533 0.49 1.16 6.68 23.0 30.7 1.36 8.55 5030 16.K 48.K
4Kc       2.6.18-rc4      80 4.21 15.0 131. 289. 261. 16.5 258. 18.K 70.K 227K
4Kc       2.6.18-rc4-p    80 4.34 13.1 128. 285. 262. 18.2 258. 12.K 52.K 176K
34Kc      2.6.18-rc4      40 5.01 14.0 61.6 90.0 477. 17.9 94.7 29.K 108K 342K
34Kc      2.6.18-rc4-p    40 4.98 13.9 61.2 89.7 475. 17.6 93.7 8758 44.K 158K
BCM1480   2.6.18-rc4     700 0.28 0.60 3.68 5.92 16.0 0.78 5.08 931. 3163 15.K
BCM1480   2.6.18-rc4-p   700 0.28 0.61 3.65 5.85 16.0 0.79 5.20 395. 1464 8385
TX49-16K  2.6.18-rc3     197 0.73 2.41 19.0 37.8 82.9 2.94 17.5 4438 14.K 56.K
TX49-16K  2.6.18-rc3-p   197 0.73 2.40 19.9 36.3 82.9 2.94 23.4 2577 9103 38.K
TX49-32K  2.6.18-rc3     396 0.36 1.19 6.80 11.8 41.0 1.46 8.17 2738 8465 32.K
TX49-32K  2.6.18-rc3-p   396 0.36 1.19 6.82 10.2 41.0 1.46 8.18 1330 4638 18.K
    
Original patch by me with enhancements by Atsushi Nemoto.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>

Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

    
This fixes sparse warnings 'dereference of noderef expression'.
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

    
Cacheflush(0, 0, 0) was crashing the system.  This is because
flush_icache_range(start, end) tries to flushing whole address space
(0 - ~0UL) if both start and end are zero.
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!