Will Deacon a391263cd8 ARM: 8203/1: mm: try to re-use old ASID assignments following a rollover ...

Rather than unconditionally allocating a fresh ASID to an mm from an
older generation, attempt to re-use the old assignment where possible.

This can bring performance benefits on systems where the ASID is used to
tag things other than the TLB (e.g. branch prediction resources).

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

2014-11-21 15:24:46 +00:00

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