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    Disable non-temporal hint on Cortex-A53/57 · 54035fc4
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    The LDNP/STNP instructions as implemented on Cortex-A53 and
    Cortex-A57 do not behave in a way most programmers expect, and will
    most probably result in a significant speed degradation to any code
    that employs them. The ARMv8-A architecture (see Document ARM DDI
    0487A.h, section D3.4.3) allows cores to ignore the non-temporal hint
    and treat LDNP/STNP as LDP/STP instead.
    
    This patch introduces 2 new build flags:
    A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT and A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT
    to enforce this behaviour on Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57. They are
    enabled by default.
    
    The string printed in debug builds when a specific CPU errata
    workaround is compiled in but skipped at runtime has been
    generalised, so that it can be reused for the non-temporal hint use
    case as well.
    
    Change-Id: I3e354f4797fd5d3959872a678e160322b13867a1
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