提交 b6f6b98a 编写于 作者: S Sonny Rao 提交者: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Don't spin on sync instruction at boot time

Push the sync below the secondary smp init hold loop and comment its purpose.
This should speed up boot by reducing global traffic during the single-threaded
portion of boot.
Signed-off-by: NSonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
上级 cd6f37be
......@@ -1198,7 +1198,6 @@ _GLOBAL(generic_secondary_smp_init)
3: HMT_LOW
lbz r23,PACAPROCSTART(r13) /* Test if this processor should */
/* start. */
sync
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
b 3b /* Never go on non-SMP */
......@@ -1206,6 +1205,8 @@ _GLOBAL(generic_secondary_smp_init)
cmpwi 0,r23,0
beq 3b /* Loop until told to go */
sync /* order paca.run and cur_cpu_spec */
/* See if we need to call a cpu state restore handler */
LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r23, cur_cpu_spec)
ld r23,0(r23)
......
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