linux-toradex.git/arch/arc/kernel/process.c, branch v4.14

ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #2: kernel/entry exit

2017-08-28T22:17:36+00:00

Preserve eflags and gpa1 aux during entry/exit into kernel as these
could be modified by kernel mode

These registers used by compare exchange instructions.
  - GPA1 is used for compare value,
  - EFLAGS got bit reflects atomic operation response.

EFLAGS is zeroed for each new user task so it won't get its
parent value.

Signed-off-by: Liav Rehana 
Signed-off-by: Noam Camus 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: [plat-eznps] use schd.wft instruction instead of sleep at idle task

2017-08-28T22:17:36+00:00

When HW threads are active we want CPU to enter idle state only
for the calling HW thread and not to put on sleep all HW threads
sharing this core. For this need the NPS400 got dedicated instruction
so only calling thread is entring sleep and all other are still awake
and can execute instructions.

Signed-off-by: Noam Camus 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
[vgupta: reworked patch to not use inline ifdef but a new function itself]

ARC: create cpu specific version of arch_cpu_idle()

2017-08-28T22:17:36+00:00

This paves way for creating a 3rd variant needed for NPS ARC700 without
littering ifdey'ery all over the place

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:35+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ARC: change return value of userspace cmpxchg assist syscall

2016-11-07T19:01:12+00:00

The original syscall only used to return errno to indicate if cmpxchg
succeeded. It was not returning the "previous" value which typical cmpxchg
callers are interested in to build their slowpaths or retry loops.
Given user preemption in syscall return path etc, it is not wise to
check this in userspace afterwards, but should be what kernel actually
observed in the syscall.

So change the syscall interface to always return the previous value and
additionally set Z flag to indicate whether operation succeeded or not
(just like ARM implementation when they used to have this syscall)
The flag approach avoids having to put_user errno which is nice given
the use case for this syscall cares mostly about the "previous" value.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: syscall for userspace cmpxchg assist

2016-10-24T16:24:26+00:00

Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement
atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL
which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist.
This is costly but really the only sane soluton (othern than tight
spinning using the otherwise availiable atomic exchange EX instruciton).

Good thing is there are only a few of these cores running Linux out in
the wild.

This only works on UP systems.

Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Support syscall ABI v4

2016-08-19T17:44:34+00:00

The syscall ABI includes the gcc functional calling ABI since a syscall
implies userland caller and kernel callee.

The current gcc ABI (v3) for ARCv2 ISA required 64-bit data be passed in
even-odd register pairs, (potentially punching reg holes when passing such
values as args). This was partly driven by the fact that the double-word
LDD/STD instructions in ARCv2 expect the register alignment and thus gcc
forcing this avoids extra MOV at the cost of a few unused register (which we
have plenty anyways).

This however was rejected as part of upstreaming gcc port to HS. So the new
ABI v4 doesn't enforce the even-odd reg restriction.

Do note that for ARCompact ISA builds v3 and v4 are practically the same in
terms of gcc code generation.

In terms of change management, we infer the new ABI if gcc 6.x onwards
is used for building the kernel.

This also needs a stable backport to enable older kernels to work with
new tools/user-space

Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

exit_thread: remove empty bodies

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in
exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline.

This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to
accept a task parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Koichi Yasutake 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARC: Abstract out ISA specific SLEEP args

2015-11-16T08:47:02+00:00

No semantical changes, prepares for ARCv2 specific change in next commit

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta