linux-toradex.git/arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h, branch v3.10.76

sparc64: Kill __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW

2013-03-20T19:09:01+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'arch-microblaze' into no-rebases

2012-11-17T03:28:43+00:00

sparc64: Improvde documentation and readability of atomic backoff code.

2012-10-28T20:04:47+00:00

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

sparc64: Use pause instruction when available.

2012-10-28T06:00:41+00:00

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

sparc64: Fix cpu strand yielding.

2012-10-28T01:35:27+00:00

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

sparc64: take fprs_write() and friends to start_thread()

2012-10-14T23:26:53+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sparc64: switch to generic kernel_thread()

2012-10-14T23:26:52+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc

2012-05-24T22:10:28+00:00

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()

sparc: Fix user_addr_max() definition.

2012-05-24T20:41:58+00:00

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

fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()

2012-05-16T22:16:26+00:00

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 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Koichi Yasutake 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin