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authorBecky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>2007-11-10 09:17:49 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-11-13 16:22:43 +1100
commitb64f87c16f3c00fe593f632e1ee5798ba3f4f3f4 (patch)
tree1e0c63707b73c4b2f316a01b2e3c6ebd82c6356a /arch/ppc
parent64c911a3f7c9864a4bbddbb77b722d5553ddcd32 (diff)
[POWERPC] Avoid unpaired stwcx. on some processors
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc')
-rw-r--r--arch/ppc/kernel/entry.S6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/ppc/kernel/entry.S
index b19bfef2034..59e77eb6333 100644
--- a/arch/ppc/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/entry.S
@@ -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)
@@ -713,6 +716,9 @@ 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))