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[POWERPC] Avoid unpaired stwcx. on some processors

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The context switch code in the kernel issues a dummy stwcx. to clear the
reservation, as recommended by the architecture.  However, some processors
can have issues if this stwcx to address A occurs while the reservation
is already held to a different address B.  To avoid this problem, the dummy
stwcx. needs to be paired with a dummy lwarx to the same address.

This adds the dummy lwarx, and creates a cpu feature bit to indicate
which cpus are affected.  Tested on mpc8641_hpcn_defconfig in
arch/powerpc; build tested in arch/ppc.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Becky Bruce
2007-11-10 09:17:49 +11:00
committed by Paul Mackerras
parent 64c911a3f7
commit b64f87c16f
3 changed files with 24 additions and 10 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
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@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ syscall_exit_cont:
bne- 2f
1:
#endif /* CONFIG_44x */
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
lwarx r7,0,r1
END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX)
stwcx. r0,0,r1 /* to clear the reservation */
lwz r4,_LINK(r1)
lwz r5,_CCR(r1)
@@ -717,6 +720,9 @@ restore:
mtctr r11
PPC405_ERR77(0,r1)
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
lwarx r11,0,r1
END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX)
stwcx. r0,0,r1 /* to clear the reservation */
#if !(defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE))