[POWERPC] Always use -mno-string
The string load/store instructions are unimplemented on some processors
and slow (microcoded) on some others. It's simplest to just not use
them at all.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index e6c3add..26788de 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@
# kernel considerably.
CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-funit-at-a-time)
-ifndef CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE
-CFLAGS += -mstring
-endif
+# Never use string load/store instructions as they are
+# often slow when they are implemented at all
+CFLAGS += -mno-string
ifeq ($(CONFIG_6xx),y)
CFLAGS += -mcpu=powerpc