MIPS: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().
authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Fri, 14 May 2010 19:44:18 +0000 (12:44 -0700)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Fri, 21 May 2010 20:31:23 +0000 (21:31 +0100)
commit0453fb3c528c5eb3483441a466b24a4cb409eec5
tree9f3ede7bb21b5accef294cadcf633d251150e8da
parent606c958e2857d29106b8d3b2fc30e22f376c80c5
MIPS: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().

GCC's __builtin_prefetch() was introduced a long time ago, all
supported GCC versions have it.  Lets do what the big boys up in
linux/prefetch.h do, except we use '1' as the third parameter to
provoke 'PREF 0,...'  and 'PREF 1,...' instead of other prefetch
hints.

This allows for better code generation.  In theory the existing
embedded asm could be optimized, but the compiler has these builtins,
so there is really no point.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1235/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h