[POWERPC] add Kconfig option for optimizing for cell

Since the PPE on cell is an in-order core, it suffers significantly
from wrong instruction scheduling.  This adds a Kconfig option that
enables passing -mtune=cell to gcc in order to generate object
code that runs well on cell.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index 6015a92bc2a0..87aff5372d6e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ else
 endif
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_TUNE_CELL),y)
+        CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mtune=cell)
+endif
+
 # No AltiVec instruction when building kernel
 CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-altivec)
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index 86eb4cf31f0b..4c315be25015 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ config POWER4
         depends on PPC64
         def_bool y
 
+config TUNE_CELL
+        bool "Optimize for Cell Broadband Engine"
+        depends on PPC64
+        help
+          Cause the compiler to optimize for the PPE of the Cell Broadband
+          Engine. This will make the code run considerably faster on Cell
+          but somewhat slower on other machines. This option only changes
+          the scheduling of instructions, not the selection of instructions
+          itself, so the resulting kernel will keep running on all other
+          machines. When building a kernel that is supposed to run only
+          on Cell, you should also select the POWER4_ONLY option.
+
 config 6xx
         bool