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David Daney
0453fb3c52 MIPS: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().
GCC's __builtin_prefetch() was introduced a long time ago, all
supported GCC versions have it.  Lets do what the big boys up in
linux/prefetch.h do, except we use '1' as the third parameter to
provoke 'PREF 0,...'  and 'PREF 1,...' instead of other prefetch
hints.

This allows for better code generation.  In theory the existing
embedded asm could be optimized, but the compiler has these builtins,
so there is really no point.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1235/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-05-21 21:31:23 +01:00
David Daney
c52d0d30ae MIPS: Preliminary VDSO
This is a preliminary patch to add a vdso to all user processes.  Still
missing are ELF headers and .eh_frame information.  But it is enough to
allow us to move signal trampolines off of the stack.  Note that emulation
of branch delay slots in the FPU emulator still requires the stack.

We allocate a single page (the vdso) and write all possible signal
trampolines into it.  The stack is moved down by one page and the vdso is
mapped into this space.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/975/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-04-12 17:26:14 +01:00
David Daney
484889fc85 MIPS: Avoid clobbering struct pt_regs in kthreads
The resume() implementation octeon_switch.S examines the saved cp0_status
register.  We were clobbering the entire pt_regs structure in kernel
threads leading to random crashes.

When switching away from a kernel thread, the saved cp0_status is examined
and if bit 30 is set it is cleared and the CP2 state saved into the pt_regs
structure.  Since the kernel thread stack overlaid the pt_regs structure
this resulted in a corrupt stack.  When the kthread with the corrupt stack
was resumed, it could crash if it used any of the data in the stack that was
clobbered.

We fix it by moving the kernel thread stack down so it doesn't overlay
pt_regs.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-08-03 17:52:41 +01:00
David Daney
b5e00af81f MIPS: Add Cavium OCTEON cop2/cvmseg state entries to processor.h.
Add in the cop2 and cvmseg state info to the known proc reg
data for Cavium so that it can be tracked, saved, restored.

Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-01-11 09:57:22 +00:00
David Daney
6aa3524c18 MIPS: Add HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS definitions and support code.
This is the main support code for the patch.  Here we just add the
code, the following patches hook it up.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

 create mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/watch.h
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/watch.c
2008-10-11 16:18:56 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
384740dc49 MIPS: Move headfiles to new location below arch/mips/include
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:52 +01:00