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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.S, branch v3.2.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>sparc64: Future proof Niagara cpu detection.</title>
<updated>2011-09-16T21:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2011-09-11T17:42:20+00:00</published>
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Recognize T4 and T5 chips.  Treating them both as "T2 plus other
stuff" should be extremely safe and make sure distributions will work
when those chips actually ship to customers.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Recognize T4 and T5 chips.  Treating them both as "T2 plus other
stuff" should be extremely safe and make sure distributions will work
when those chips actually ship to customers.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Minor tweaks to Niagara page copy/clear.</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T04:28:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-02T01:18:57+00:00</published>
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Don't use floating point on Niagara2, use the traditional
plain Niagara code instead.

Unroll Niagara loops to 128 bytes for copy, and 256 bytes
for clear.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Don't use floating point on Niagara2, use the traditional
plain Niagara code instead.

Unroll Niagara loops to 128 bytes for copy, and 256 bytes
for clear.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Detect and handle UltraSPARC-T3 cpu types.</title>
<updated>2011-07-28T05:10:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-28T04:06:16+00:00</published>
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The cpu compatible string we look for is "SPARC-T3".

As far as memset/memcpy optimizations go, we treat this chip the same
as Niagara-T2/T2+.  Use cache initializing stores for memset, and use
perfetch, FPU block loads, cache initializing stores, and block stores
for copies.

We use the Niagara-T2 perf support, since T3 is a close relative in
this regard.  Later we'll add support for the new events T3 can
report, plus enable T3's new "sample" mode.

For now I haven't added any new ELF hwcap flags.  We probably need
to add a couple, for example:

T2 and T3 both support the population count instruction in hardware.

T3 supports VIS3 instructions, including support (finally) for
partitioned shift.  One can also now move directly between float
and integer registers.

T3 supports instructions meant to help with Galois Field and other HPC
calculations, such as XOR multiply.  Also there are "OP and negate"
instructions, for example "fnmul" which is multiply-and-negate.

T3 recognizes the transactional memory opcodes, however since
transactional memory isn't supported: 1) 'commit' behaves as a NOP and
2) 'chkpt' always branches 3) 'rdcps' returns all zeros and 4) 'wrcps'
behaves as a NOP.

So we'll need about 3 new elf capability flags in the end to represent
all of these things.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The cpu compatible string we look for is "SPARC-T3".

As far as memset/memcpy optimizations go, we treat this chip the same
as Niagara-T2/T2+.  Use cache initializing stores for memset, and use
perfetch, FPU block loads, cache initializing stores, and block stores
for copies.

We use the Niagara-T2 perf support, since T3 is a close relative in
this regard.  Later we'll add support for the new events T3 can
report, plus enable T3's new "sample" mode.

For now I haven't added any new ELF hwcap flags.  We probably need
to add a couple, for example:

T2 and T3 both support the population count instruction in hardware.

T3 supports VIS3 instructions, including support (finally) for
partitioned shift.  One can also now move directly between float
and integer registers.

T3 supports instructions meant to help with Galois Field and other HPC
calculations, such as XOR multiply.  Also there are "OP and negate"
instructions, for example "fnmul" which is multiply-and-negate.

T3 recognizes the transactional memory opcodes, however since
transactional memory isn't supported: 1) 'commit' behaves as a NOP and
2) 'chkpt' always branches 3) 'rdcps' returns all zeros and 4) 'wrcps'
behaves as a NOP.

So we'll need about 3 new elf capability flags in the end to represent
all of these things.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Store per-cpu offset in trap_block[]</title>
<updated>2009-06-16T11:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-01T08:47:10+00:00</published>
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Surprisingly this actually makes LOAD_PER_CPU_BASE() a little
more efficient.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Surprisingly this actually makes LOAD_PER_CPU_BASE() a little
more efficient.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc: cleanup references to deprecated .text.init* sections.</title>
<updated>2009-04-28T02:51:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-27T18:02:26+00:00</published>
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The section .text.init.refok is deprecated and __REF (.ref.text)
should be used in assembly files instead.  This patch cleans up a few
uses of .text.init.refok in the sparc architecture.

Also fix a reference to .text.init in a comment that wasn't updated to
.init.text.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The section .text.init.refok is deprecated and __REF (.ref.text)
should be used in assembly files instead.  This patch cleans up a few
uses of .text.init.refok in the sparc architecture.

Also fix a reference to .text.init in a comment that wasn't updated to
.init.text.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware</title>
<updated>2009-03-30T13:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Andrew</name>
<email>nick@nick-andrew.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-26T10:06:57+00:00</published>
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Fix misspelling of firmware.

Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew &lt;nick@nick-andrew.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Fix misspelling of firmware.

Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew &lt;nick@nick-andrew.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Kill .fixup section bloat.</title>
<updated>2009-02-09T06:00:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-09T06:00:55+00:00</published>
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This is an implementation of a suggestion made by Chris Torek:
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Something else I noticed in passing: the EX and EX_LD/EX_ST macros
scattered throughout the various .S files make a fair bit of .fixup
code, all of which does the same thing.  At the cost of one symbol
in copy_in_user.S, you could just have one common two-instruction
retl-and-mov-1 fixup that they all share.
--------------------

The following is with a defconfig build:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3972767	 344024	 584449	4901240	 4ac978	vmlinux.orig
3968887	 344024	 584449	4897360	 4aba50	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is an implementation of a suggestion made by Chris Torek:
--------------------
Something else I noticed in passing: the EX and EX_LD/EX_ST macros
scattered throughout the various .S files make a fair bit of .fixup
code, all of which does the same thing.  At the cost of one symbol
in copy_in_user.S, you could just have one common two-instruction
retl-and-mov-1 fixup that they all share.
--------------------

The following is with a defconfig build:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3972767	 344024	 584449	4901240	 4ac978	vmlinux.orig
3968887	 344024	 584449	4897360	 4aba50	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc,sparc64: unify kernel/</title>
<updated>2008-12-04T17:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-03T11:11:52+00:00</published>
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o Move all files from sparc64/kernel/ to sparc/kernel
  - rename as appropriate
o Update sparc/Makefile to the changes
o Update sparc/kernel/Makefile to include the sparc64 files

NOTE: This commit changes link order on sparc64!

Link order had to change for either of sparc32 and sparc64.
And assuming sparc64 see more testing than sparc32 change link
order on sparc64 where issues will be caught faster.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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o Move all files from sparc64/kernel/ to sparc/kernel
  - rename as appropriate
o Update sparc/Makefile to the changes
o Update sparc/kernel/Makefile to include the sparc64 files

NOTE: This commit changes link order on sparc64!

Link order had to change for either of sparc32 and sparc64.
And assuming sparc64 see more testing than sparc32 change link
order on sparc64 where issues will be caught faster.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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