Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com> is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.
Based on Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com> patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A recent patch changed some irq routines from inlines to functions.
These routines are called by the tracer code. Now that they're functions,
if they are compiled for function tracing they will call the tracer
and crash the system due to infinite recursion. The fix disables
tracing in these functions by using "notrace" in the function
definition.
Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Pathchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4564/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For non MIPSr2 processors, such as the BMIPS 5000, calls to
arch_local_irq_disable() and others may be preempted, and in doing
so a stale value may be restored to c0_status. This fix disables
preemption for such processors prior to the call and enables it
after the call.
Those functions that needed this fix have been "outlined" to
mips-atomic.c, as they are no longer good candidates for inlining.
This bug was observed in a BMIPS 5000, occuring once every few hours
in a continuous reboot test. It was traced to the write_lock_irq()
function which was being invoked in release_task() in exit.c.
By placing a number of "nops" inbetween the mfc0/mtc0 pair in
arch_local_irq_disable(), which is called by write_lock_irq(), we
were able to greatly increase the occurance of this bug. Similarly,
the application of this commit silenced the bug.
Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Cernekee cernekee@gmail.com
Cc: Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@gmail.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4321/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle