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    powerpc/64s/hash: Use POWER9 SLBIA IH=3 variant in switch_slb · 82d8f4c2
    Nicholas Piggin authored
    POWER9 introduces SLBIA IH=3, which invalidates all SLB entries and
    associated lookaside information that have a class value of 1, which
    Linux assigns to user addresses. This matches what switch_slb wants,
    and allows a simple fast implementation that avoids the slb_cache
    complexity.
    
    As a side-effect, the POWER5 < DD2.1 SLB invalidation workaround is
    also avoided on POWER9.
    
    Process context switching rate is improved about 2.2% for a small
    process that hits the slb cache which is the best case for the current
    code.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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