arm64: Select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER

It is probably safe to assume that all Armv8-A implementations have a
multiplier whose efficiency is comparable or better than a sequence of
three or so register-dependent arithmetic instructions. Select
ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER to get ever-so-slightly nicer codegen in the
few dusty old corners which care.

In a contrived benchmark calling hweight64() in a loop, this does indeed
turn out to be a small win overall, with no measurable impact on
Cortex-A57 but about 5% performance improvement on Cortex-A53.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Danny Lin <danny@kdrag0n.dev>
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Robin Murphy 7 years ago committed by Jenna
parent 2dceb98935
commit 8f148df61e
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      arch/arm64/Kconfig

@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config ARM64
select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE if ACPI
select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE if (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA

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