powerpc: Add support for context switching the TAR register
authorIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Thu, 7 Feb 2013 15:46:58 +0000 (15:46 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:05:50 +0000 (14:05 +1100)
This patch adds support for enabling and context switching the Target
Address Register in Power8. The TAR is a new special purpose register
that can be used for computed branches with the bctar[l] (branch
conditional to TAR) instruction in the same manner as the count and link
registers.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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