SYNC in __switch_to() is a historic relic and not needed at all.
- In UP context it is obviously useless, why would we want to stall
the core for all updates to stack memory of t0 to complete before
loading kernel mode callee registers from t1 stack's memory.
- In SMP, there could be potential race in which outgoing task could
be concurrently picked for running on a different core, thus writes
to stack here need to be visible before the reads from stack on
other core. Peter confirmed that generic schedular already has needed
barriers (by way of rq lock) so there is no need for additional arch
barrier.
This came up when Noam was trying to replace this SYNC with EZChip
specific hardware thread scheduling instruction for their platform
support.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151102092654.GM17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
With commit 9df62f0544 "arch: use ASM_NL instead of ';'" the generic
macros can handle the arch specific newline quirk. Hence we can get rid
of ARC asm macros and use the "C" style macros.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
ST.as only takes S9 (255) for offset. This was going out of range when
accessing a task_struct field with 4k NR_CPUS (due to 128b of coumaks
itself in there).
Workaround by using an intermediate register to do the address scaling.
There is some duplication of fix for ctx_sw.c and ctx_sw_asm.S however
given that C version will go away soon I'm not bothering to factor out
the common code.
Reported-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Vineet Gupta