target-arm/helper.c: Don't flush the TLB if SCTLR is rewritten unchanged
commit2f0d8631b74c873c8867a7b509335bc2bf8d8886
authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Tue, 13 May 2014 15:09:38 +0000 (13 16:09 +0100)
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Tue, 13 May 2014 15:09:38 +0000 (13 16:09 +0100)
treea3f384c8b4bfc7adba1ed83d1de2f94affe6ed06
parent2e1198672759eda6e122ff38fcf6df06f27e0fe2
target-arm/helper.c: Don't flush the TLB if SCTLR is rewritten unchanged

Linux makes a habit of writing the same value to the SCTLR that it
already holds. In a sample boot of the kernel to a shell prompt
it wrote the SCTLR with the value it already held 325465 times,
and wrote different values just 3 times.

Skip flushing the TLB if the SCTLR value isn't actually being changed;
this speeds up my sample boot by 3-5%.

Reported-by: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1399560029-19007-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
target-arm/helper.c