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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>MIPS: Read watch registers with interrupts disabled.</title>
<updated>2009-01-30T21:32:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>ddaney@caviumnetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-05T23:29:58+00:00</published>
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If a context switch occurred between the watch exception and reading the
watch registers, it would be possible for the new process to corrupt their
state.  Enabling interrupts only after the watch registers are read avoids
this race.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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If a context switch occurred between the watch exception and reading the
watch registers, it would be possible for the new process to corrupt their
state.  Enabling interrupts only after the watch registers are read avoids
this race.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Override assembler target architecture for octeon.</title>
<updated>2009-01-11T09:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>ddaney@caviumnetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-11T23:33:25+00:00</published>
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Gas from binutils 2.19 fails to compile some cop1 instructions with
-march=octeon.  Since the cop1 instructions are present in mips1, use
that arch instead.  This will be fixed in binutils 2.20.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Gas from binutils 2.19 fails to compile some cop1 instructions with
-march=octeon.  Since the cop1 instructions are present in mips1, use
that arch instead.  This will be fixed in binutils 2.20.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Watch exception handling for HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS.</title>
<updated>2008-10-11T15:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>ddaney@avtrex.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-23T07:08:45+00:00</published>
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Here we hook up the watch exception handler so that it sends SIGTRAP when
the hardware watch registers are triggered.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@avtrex.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Here we hook up the watch exception handler so that it sends SIGTRAP when
the hardware watch registers are triggered.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@avtrex.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] SMTC: Fix SMTC dyntick support.</title>
<updated>2008-10-03T16:58:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin D. Kissell</name>
<email>kevink@paralogos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-09T19:48:52+00:00</published>
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Rework of SMTC support to make it work with the new clock event system,
allowing "tickless" operation, and to make it compatible with the use of
the "wait_irqoff" idle loop.  The new clocking scheme means that the
previously optional IPI instant replay mechanism is now required, and has
been made more robust.

Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell &lt;kevink@paralogos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Rework of SMTC support to make it work with the new clock event system,
allowing "tickless" operation, and to make it compatible with the use of
the "wait_irqoff" idle loop.  The new clocking scheme means that the
previously optional IPI instant replay mechanism is now required, and has
been made more robust.

Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell &lt;kevink@paralogos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[MIPS] Fix potential latency problem due to non-atomic cpu_wait.</title>
<updated>2008-09-21T12:52:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atsushi Nemoto</name>
<email>anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-11T17:05:18+00:00</published>
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If an interrupt happened between checking of NEED_RESCHED and WAIT
instruction, adjust EPC to restart from checking of NEED_RESCHED.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto &lt;anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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If an interrupt happened between checking of NEED_RESCHED and WAIT
instruction, adjust EPC to restart from checking of NEED_RESCHED.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto &lt;anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] R4000/R4400 daddiu erratum workaround</title>
<updated>2008-01-29T10:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-23T11:43:25+00:00</published>
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 This complements the generic R4000/R4400 errata workaround code and adds 
bits for the daddiu problem.  In most places it just modifies handwritten 
assembly code so that the assembler is allowed to use a temporary register 
as daddiu may now be treated as a macro that expands to a sequence of li 
and daddu.  It is the AT register or, where AT is unavailable or used 
explicitly for another purpose, an explicitly-named register is selected, 
using the .set at=&lt;reg&gt; feature added recently to gas.  This feature is 
only used if CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS has been set, so if the 
workaround remains disabled, the required version of binutils stays 
unchanged.

 Similarly, daddiu instructions put in branch delay slots in noreorder 
fragments are now taken out of them and the assembler is allowed to 
reorder them itself as possible (which it does making the whole idea of 
scheduling them into delay slots manually questionable).

 Also in the very few places where such a simple conversion was not 
possible, a handcoded longer sequence is implemented.

 Other than that there are changes to code responsible for building the 
TLB fault and page clear/copy handlers to avoid daddiu as appropriate.  
These are only effective if the erratum is verified to be present at the 
run time.

 Finally there is a trivial update to __delay(), because it uses daddiu in 
a branch delay slot.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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 This complements the generic R4000/R4400 errata workaround code and adds 
bits for the daddiu problem.  In most places it just modifies handwritten 
assembly code so that the assembler is allowed to use a temporary register 
as daddiu may now be treated as a macro that expands to a sequence of li 
and daddu.  It is the AT register or, where AT is unavailable or used 
explicitly for another purpose, an explicitly-named register is selected, 
using the .set at=&lt;reg&gt; feature added recently to gas.  This feature is 
only used if CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS has been set, so if the 
workaround remains disabled, the required version of binutils stays 
unchanged.

 Similarly, daddiu instructions put in branch delay slots in noreorder 
fragments are now taken out of them and the assembler is allowed to 
reorder them itself as possible (which it does making the whole idea of 
scheduling them into delay slots manually questionable).

 Also in the very few places where such a simple conversion was not 
possible, a handcoded longer sequence is implemented.

 Other than that there are changes to code responsible for building the 
TLB fault and page clear/copy handlers to avoid daddiu as appropriate.  
These are only effective if the erratum is verified to be present at the 
run time.

 Finally there is a trivial update to __delay(), because it uses daddiu in 
a branch delay slot.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] Fix typo in R3000 TRACE_IRQFLAGS code</title>
<updated>2007-11-15T23:21:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atsushi Nemoto</name>
<email>anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-06T16:08:48+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto &lt;anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto &lt;anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] SMTC: Interrupt mask backstop hack</title>
<updated>2007-07-12T16:41:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin D. Kissell</name>
<email>kevink@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-12T15:21:08+00:00</published>
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To support multiple TC microthreads acting as "CPUs" within a VPE,
VPE-wide interrupt mask bits must be specially manipulated during
interrupt handling. To support legacy drivers and interrupt controller
management code, SMTC has a "backstop" to track and if necessary restore
the interrupt mask. This has some performance impact on interrupt service
overhead. Disable it only if you know what you are doing.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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To support multiple TC microthreads acting as "CPUs" within a VPE,
VPE-wide interrupt mask bits must be specially manipulated during
interrupt handling. To support legacy drivers and interrupt controller
management code, SMTC has a "backstop" to track and if necessary restore
the interrupt mask. This has some performance impact on interrupt service
overhead. Disable it only if you know what you are doing.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] lockdep: Deal with interrupt disable hazard in TRACE_IRQFLAGS</title>
<updated>2007-03-29T22:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Dearman</name>
<email>chris@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-26T13:48:50+00:00</published>
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Between the mtc0 or di instruction that disables interrupts and the
following hazard barrier a processor may still take interrupts.  If an
interrupt is taken after interrupts are disabled but before the state
is updated it will appear to restore_all that it is incorrectly returning
with interrupts disabled.

Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman &lt;chris@mips.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Between the mtc0 or di instruction that disables interrupts and the
following hazard barrier a processor may still take interrupts.  If an
interrupt is taken after interrupts are disabled but before the state
is updated it will appear to restore_all that it is incorrectly returning
with interrupts disabled.

Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman &lt;chris@mips.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] Export except_vec_vi_{mori,lui,ori} as text symbols.</title>
<updated>2007-03-19T20:22:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-19T15:29:39+00:00</published>
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Otherwise objdump will screw up disassembly.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Otherwise objdump will screw up disassembly.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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