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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h, branch linux-4.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>MIPS: spinlock: Adjust arch_spin_lock back-off time</title>
<updated>2015-06-24T12:57:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-20T09:54:34+00:00</published>
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Make it similar to the trylock and R10000_LLSC_WAR cases.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9789/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Make it similar to the trylock and R10000_LLSC_WAR cases.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9789/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Replace smp_mb with release barrier function in unlocks.</title>
<updated>2015-06-21T19:54:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonid Yegoshin</name>
<email>Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-02T00:09:52+00:00</published>
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Repleace smp_mb() in arch_write_unlock() and __clear_bit_unlock() to
smp_mb__before_llsc() call which does "release" barrier functionality.

It seems like it was missed in commit f252ffd50c97dae87b45f1dbad24f71358ccfbd6
during introduction of "acquire" and "release" semantics.

[ralf@linux-mips: The original patch submission was labelled a fix but
actually it replaces a barrier with another less restrictive type of
barrier so it doesn't fix any ill behaviour but rather squeezes out a
tad better performance.  Further improvments will be possible once
smp_release() has been merged.]

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: markos.chandras@imgtec.com
Cc: macro@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven.Hill@imgtec.com
Cc: alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10507/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Repleace smp_mb() in arch_write_unlock() and __clear_bit_unlock() to
smp_mb__before_llsc() call which does "release" barrier functionality.

It seems like it was missed in commit f252ffd50c97dae87b45f1dbad24f71358ccfbd6
during introduction of "acquire" and "release" semantics.

[ralf@linux-mips: The original patch submission was labelled a fix but
actually it replaces a barrier with another less restrictive type of
barrier so it doesn't fix any ill behaviour but rather squeezes out a
tad better performance.  Further improvments will be possible once
smp_release() has been merged.]

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: markos.chandras@imgtec.com
Cc: macro@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven.Hill@imgtec.com
Cc: alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10507/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: asm: spinlock: Fix addiu instruction for R10000_LLSC_WAR case</title>
<updated>2015-04-10T13:41:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-03T18:48:48+00:00</published>
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Commit 5753762cbd1c("MIPS: asm: spinlock: Replace "sub" instruction
with "addiu") replaced the "sub" instruction with addiu but it did
not update the immediate value in the R10000_LLSC_WAR case.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 5753762cbd1c("MIPS: asm: spinlock: Replace "sub" instruction with "addiu"")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9385/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Commit 5753762cbd1c("MIPS: asm: spinlock: Replace "sub" instruction
with "addiu") replaced the "sub" instruction with addiu but it did
not update the immediate value in the R10000_LLSC_WAR case.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 5753762cbd1c("MIPS: asm: spinlock: Replace "sub" instruction with "addiu"")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9385/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: asm: spinlock: Replace "sub" instruction with "addiu"</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T15:37:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-24T14:11:39+00:00</published>
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"sub $reg, imm" is not a real MIPS instruction. The assembler can
replace that with "addi $reg, -imm". However, addi has been removed
from R6, so we replace the "sub" instruction with the "addiu" one.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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"sub $reg, imm" is not a real MIPS instruction. The assembler can
replace that with "addi $reg, -imm". However, addi has been removed
from R6, so we replace the "sub" instruction with the "addiu" one.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: asm: Rename GCC_OFF12_ASM to GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T15:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-26T12:44:11+00:00</published>
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The GCC_OFF12_ASM macro is used for 12-bit immediate constrains
but we will also use it for 9-bit constrains on MIPS R6 so we
rename it to something more appropriate.

Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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The GCC_OFF12_ASM macro is used for 12-bit immediate constrains
but we will also use it for 9-bit constrains on MIPS R6 so we
rename it to something more appropriate.

Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix microMIPS LL/SC immediate offsets</title>
<updated>2014-11-24T06:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-15T22:08:48+00:00</published>
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In the microMIPS encoding some memory access instructions have their
immediate offset reduced to 12 bits only.  That does not match the GCC
`R' constraint we use in some places to satisfy the requirement,
resulting in build failures like this:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:720: Error: macro used $at after ".set noat"
{standard input}:720: Warning: macro instruction expanded into multiple instructions

Fix the problem by defining a macro, `GCC_OFF12_ASM', that expands to
the right constraint depending on whether microMIPS or standard MIPS
code is produced.  Also apply the fix to where `m' is used as in the
worst case this change does nothing, e.g. where the pointer was already
in a register such as a function argument and no further offset was
requested, and in the best case it avoids an extraneous sequence of up
to two instructions to load the high 20 bits of the address in the LL/SC
loop.  This reduces the risk of lock contention that is the higher the
more instructions there are in the critical section between LL and SC.

Strictly speaking we could just bulk-replace `R' with `ZC' as the latter
constraint adjusts automatically depending on the ISA selected.
However it was only introduced with GCC 4.9 and we keep supporing older
compilers for the standard MIPS configuration, hence the slightly more
complicated approach I chose.

The choice of a zero-argument function-like rather than an object-like
macro was made so that it does not look like a function call taking the
C expression used for the constraint as an argument.  This is so as not
to confuse the reader or formatting checkers like `checkpatch.pl' and
follows previous practice.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8482/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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In the microMIPS encoding some memory access instructions have their
immediate offset reduced to 12 bits only.  That does not match the GCC
`R' constraint we use in some places to satisfy the requirement,
resulting in build failures like this:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:720: Error: macro used $at after ".set noat"
{standard input}:720: Warning: macro instruction expanded into multiple instructions

Fix the problem by defining a macro, `GCC_OFF12_ASM', that expands to
the right constraint depending on whether microMIPS or standard MIPS
code is produced.  Also apply the fix to where `m' is used as in the
worst case this change does nothing, e.g. where the pointer was already
in a register such as a function argument and no further offset was
requested, and in the best case it avoids an extraneous sequence of up
to two instructions to load the high 20 bits of the address in the LL/SC
loop.  This reduces the risk of lock contention that is the higher the
more instructions there are in the critical section between LL and SC.

Strictly speaking we could just bulk-replace `R' with `ZC' as the latter
constraint adjusts automatically depending on the ISA selected.
However it was only introduced with GCC 4.9 and we keep supporing older
compilers for the standard MIPS configuration, hence the slightly more
complicated approach I chose.

The choice of a zero-argument function-like rather than an object-like
macro was made so that it does not look like a function call taking the
C expression used for the constraint as an argument.  This is so as not
to confuse the reader or formatting checkers like `checkpatch.pl' and
follows previous practice.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8482/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove redundant instructions from arch_spin_{,try}lock.</title>
<updated>2013-04-26T15:18:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>david.daney@cavium.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-25T15:48:53+00:00</published>
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We were doing:
   SRL  $r,$?,16
   ANDI $r,$r,0xffff

The logical right shift by 16 leaves the upper 16 bits clear, so the
subsequent masking out of those bits is redundant, and can safely be
removed.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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We were doing:
   SRL  $r,$?,16
   ANDI $r,$r,0xffff

The logical right shift by 16 leaves the upper 16 bits clear, so the
subsequent masking out of those bits is redundant, and can safely be
removed.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove further use of .subsection</title>
<updated>2013-04-11T13:39:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T22:16:53+00:00</published>
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7837314d141c661c70bc13c5050694413ecfe14a [MIPS: Get rid of branches to
.subsections] removed most uses of .subsection] removed most uses of
.subsection in inline assembler code.

It left the instances in spinlock.h alone because we knew their use was
in fairly small files where .subsection use was fine but of course this
was a fragile assumption.  LTO breaks this assumption resulting in build
errors due to exceeded branch range, so remove further instances of
.subsection.

The two functions that still use .macro don't currently cause issues
however this use is still fragile.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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7837314d141c661c70bc13c5050694413ecfe14a [MIPS: Get rid of branches to
.subsections] removed most uses of .subsection] removed most uses of
.subsection in inline assembler code.

It left the instances in spinlock.h alone because we knew their use was
in fairly small files where .subsection use was fine but of course this
was a fragile assumption.  LTO breaks this assumption resulting in build
errors due to exceeded branch range, so remove further instances of
.subsection.

The two functions that still use .macro don't currently cause issues
however this use is still fragile.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Whitespace cleanup.</title>
<updated>2013-02-01T09:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-22T11:59:30+00:00</published>
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Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<pre>
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Microoptimize arch_{read,write}_lock</title>
<updated>2011-03-25T17:45:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-25T17:45:13+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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