tree 211e2343035056381eed8764300c9f76170d63dc
parent 5b88852f5418341963501b8d2ad1cc16c28d3b0d
author Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com> 1452697058 +0000
committer Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com> 1454923878 +0000

Disable non-temporal hint on Cortex-A53/57

The LDNP/STNP instructions as implemented on Cortex-A53 and
Cortex-A57 do not behave in a way most programmers expect, and will
most probably result in a significant speed degradation to any code
that employs them. The ARMv8-A architecture (see Document ARM DDI
0487A.h, section D3.4.3) allows cores to ignore the non-temporal hint
and treat LDNP/STNP as LDP/STP instead.

This patch introduces 2 new build flags:
A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT and A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT
to enforce this behaviour on Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57. They are
enabled by default.

The string printed in debug builds when a specific CPU errata
workaround is compiled in but skipped at runtime has been
generalised, so that it can be reused for the non-temporal hint use
case as well.

Change-Id: I3e354f4797fd5d3959872a678e160322b13867a1