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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-02-21 15:45:17 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-02-20 17:52:01 -0800 |
| commit | 0722d7c2ac52b343e895b0726fd08ec8e9677c04 (patch) | |
| tree | bb83f4de76d3ab6b9e04b2742353824870dca3a1 /sysdeps | |
| parent | 3d2b3019e0efa9735370498122ac80298deff8c7 (diff) | |
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Explain why we don't make use of RDPC in the sparc PIC register setup.
* sysdeps/unix/sparc/sysdep.h: Document why we don't use "rd %pc" in the PIC register setup sequences.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysdeps/unix/sparc/sysdep.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sparc/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/unix/sparc/sysdep.h index 10d561e789..1a095cc6c2 100644 --- a/sysdeps/unix/sparc/sysdep.h +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sparc/sysdep.h @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ __sparc_get_pc_thunk.reg: \ .previous; \ .endif; +/* Even when v9 we use a call sequence instead of using "rd %pc" because + RDPC is extremely expensive and incurs a full pipeline flush. */ + #define SETUP_PIC_REG(reg) \ SPARC_PIC_THUNK(reg) \ sethi %hi(_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_-4), %##reg; \ |