On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 12:02:53PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if somebody could test this on a system with a
> Cortex-A8 processor.
Before this patch, it used to take around 58 min to build kernel on
BeagleBone Black here. It's now taking around 23 min.
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On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 12:02:53PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> The diff below puts the page tables on armv7 in cachable memory. This
> should speed things up a little bit, especially on processors that
> walk the page tables coherently, which is pretty much all of them
> except for Cortex-A8.
The diff below puts the page tables on armv7 in cachable memory. This
should speed things up a little bit, especially on processors that
walk the page tables coherently, which is pretty much all of them
except for Cortex-A8. We check whether the page table walk is
coherent by checking the aprprop
