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Back in 2016, it was argued that implementations lacking a HW prefetcher could be helped by sprinkling a number of PRFM instructions in strategic locations. In 2023, the one platform that presumably needed this hack is no longer in active use (let alone maintained), and an quick experiment shows dropping this hack only leads to a 0.4% drop on a full kernel compilation (tested on a MT30-GS0 48 CPU system). Given that this is pretty much in the noise department and that it may give odd ideas to other implementers, drop the hack for good. Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122133754.1240687-1-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.