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The ISA v3.0B copy-paste facility only requires cpabort when switching to a process that has foreign real addresses mapped (direct access to accelerators), to clear a potential copy buffer filled by a previous thread. There is no accelerator driver implemented yet, so cpabort can be removed. It can be be re-added when a driver is implemented. POWER9 DD1 requires the copy buffer to always be cleared on context switch, but if accelerators are not in use, then an unpaired copy from a dummy region is sufficient to clear data out of the copy buffer. This increases context switch performance by about 5% on POWER9. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.