As Peter Z. explained at:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/12/268
it's not needed at all and I even tested it back then.
This patch just got lost in the shuffle for some reason.
Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Document what's going on in asm/backoff.h with a large and descriptive
comment. Refer to it above the cpu_relax() definition in
asm/processor_64.h
Rename the pause patching section to have "3insn" in it's name like
the other patching sections do.
Based upon feedback from Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In atomic backoff and cpu_relax(), use the pause instruction
found on SPARC-T4 and later.
It makes the cpu strand unselectable for the given number of
cycles, unless an intervening disrupting trap occurs.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For atomic backoff, we just loop over an exponentially backed off
counter. This is extremely ineffective as it doesn't actually yield
the cpu strand so that other competing strands can use the cpu core.
In cpus previous to SPARC-T4 we have to do this in a slightly hackish
way, by doing an operation with no side effects that also happens to
mark the strand as unavailable.
The mechanism we choose for this is three reads of the %ccr
(condition-code) register into %g0 (the zero register).
SPARC-T4 has an explicit "pause" instruction, and we'll make use of
that in a subsequent commit.
Yield strands also in cpu_relax(). We really should have done this a
very long time ago.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull sparc changes from David S. Miller:
"This has the generic strncpy_from_user() implementation architectures
can now use, which we've been developing on linux-arch over the past
few days.
For good measure I ran both a 32-bit and a 64-bit glibc testsuite run,
and the latter of which pointed out an adjustment I needed to make to
sparc's user_addr_max() definition. Linus, you were right, STACK_TOP
was not the right thing to use, even on sparc itself :-)
From Sam Ravnborg, we have a conversion of sparc32 over to the common
alloc_thread_info_node(), since the aspect which originally blocked
our doing so (sun4c) has been removed."
Fix up trivial arch/sparc/Kconfig and lib/Makefile conflicts.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
sparc: Fix user_addr_max() definition.
lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/
kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.h
sparc: Increase portability of strncpy_from_user() implementation.
sparc: Optimize strncpy_from_user() zero byte search.
sparc: Add full proper error handling to strncpy_from_user().
sparc32: use the common implementation of alloc_thread_info_node()
We need to use TASK_SIZE because for 64-bit tasks the value
of STACK_TOP actually sits in the middle of the address space
so we'll get false-negatives.
Adjust the TASK_SIZE definition on sparc64 to accomodate this,
in the context in which user_addr_max() is used we have the
test_thread_flag() definition available but not the one for
test_tsk_thread_flag().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.
Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
GCC warns because some tests against 32-bit values never evaluate to
true due to how TASK_SIZE is defined.
I always wanted to mimick powerpc's definition of TASK_SIZE, which
is simply TASK_SIZE_OF(current) and that also fixes the warning.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The majority of this patch was created by the following script:
***
ASM=arch/sparc/include/asm
mkdir -p $ASM
git mv include/asm-sparc64/ftrace.h $ASM
git rm include/asm-sparc64/*
git mv include/asm-sparc/* $ASM
sed -ie 's/asm-sparc64/asm/g' $ASM/*
sed -ie 's/asm-sparc/asm/g' $ASM/*
***
The rest was an update of the top-level Makefile to use sparc
for header files when sparc64 is being build.
And a small fixlet to pick up the correct unistd.h from
sparc64 code.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-27 23:00:59 +02:00
Renamed from include/asm-sparc/processor_64.h (Browse further)
