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<entry>
<title>arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-18T12:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-13T18:00:36+00:00</published>
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MIPS is interesting and has hardware variants that reorder over ll/sc
as well as those that do not.

Implement the 2 new barrier functions as per the old barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9ph49jbae3hol9v721sbc2g6@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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MIPS is interesting and has hardware variants that reorder over ll/sc
as well as those that do not.

Implement the 2 new barrier functions as per the old barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9ph49jbae3hol9v721sbc2g6@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix gigaton of warning building with microMIPS.</title>
<updated>2014-03-31T16:17:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-30T11:20:10+00:00</published>
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With binutils 2.24 the attempt to switch with microMIPS mode to MIPS III
mode through .set mips3 results in *lots* of warnings like

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:397: Warning: the 64-bit MIPS architecture does not support the `smartmips' extension

during a kernel build.  Fixed by using .set arch=r4000 instead.

This breaks support for building the kernel with binutils 2.13 which
was supported for 32 bit kernels only anyway and 2.14 which was a bad
vintage for MIPS anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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With binutils 2.24 the attempt to switch with microMIPS mode to MIPS III
mode through .set mips3 results in *lots* of warnings like

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:397: Warning: the 64-bit MIPS architecture does not support the `smartmips' extension

during a kernel build.  Fixed by using .set arch=r4000 instead.

This breaks support for building the kernel with binutils 2.13 which
was supported for 32 bit kernels only anyway and 2.14 which was a bad
vintage for MIPS anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Random whitespace clean-ups</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T17:19:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-01T23:47:05+00:00</published>
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Another whitespace clean-up, this removes tabs from between sentences in
some comments.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6103/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Another whitespace clean-up, this removes tabs from between sentences in
some comments.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6103/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<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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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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Improve atomic.h robustness</title>
<updated>2012-10-11T09:02:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joshua Kinard</name>
<email>kumba@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T01:01:34+00:00</published>
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I've maintained this patch, originally from Thiemo Seufer in 2004, for a
really long time, but I think it's time for it to get a look at for
possible inclusion.  I have had no problems with it across various SGI
systems over the years.

To quote the post here:
http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2004-12/msg00000.html

"the atomic functions use so far memory references for the inline
assembler to access the semaphore. This can lead to additional
instructions in the ll/sc loop, because newer compilers don't
expand the memory reference any more but leave it to the assembler.

The appended patch uses registers instead, and makes the ll/sc
arguments more explicit. In some cases it will lead also to better
register scheduling because the register isn't bound to an output
any more."

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4029/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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I've maintained this patch, originally from Thiemo Seufer in 2004, for a
really long time, but I think it's time for it to get a look at for
possible inclusion.  I have had no problems with it across various SGI
systems over the years.

To quote the post here:
http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2004-12/msg00000.html

"the atomic functions use so far memory references for the inline
assembler to access the semaphore. This can lead to additional
instructions in the ll/sc loop, because newer compilers don't
expand the memory reference any more but leave it to the assembler.

The appended patch uses registers instead, and makes the ll/sc
arguments more explicit. In some cases it will lead also to better
register scheduling because the register isn't bound to an output
any more."

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4029/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPS</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</published>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPS.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPS.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>atomic: cleanup asm-generic atomic*.h inclusion</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:08+00:00</published>
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After changing all consumers of atomics to include &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;, we
ran into some compile time errors due to this dependency chain:

linux/atomic.h
  -&gt; asm/atomic.h
    -&gt; asm-generic/atomic-long.h

where atomic-long.h could use funcs defined later in linux/atomic.h
without a prototype.  This patches moves the code that includes
asm-generic/atomic*.h to linux/atomic.h.

Archs that need &lt;asm-generic/atomic64.h&gt; need to select
CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 from now on (some of them used to include it
unconditionally).

Compile tested on i386 and x86_64 with allnoconfig.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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After changing all consumers of atomics to include &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;, we
ran into some compile time errors due to this dependency chain:

linux/atomic.h
  -&gt; asm/atomic.h
    -&gt; asm-generic/atomic-long.h

where atomic-long.h could use funcs defined later in linux/atomic.h
without a prototype.  This patches moves the code that includes
asm-generic/atomic*.h to linux/atomic.h.

Archs that need &lt;asm-generic/atomic64.h&gt; need to select
CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 from now on (some of them used to include it
unconditionally).

Compile tested on i386 and x86_64 with allnoconfig.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atomic: move atomic_add_unless to generic code</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:07+00:00</published>
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This is in preparation for more generic atomic primitives based on
__atomic_add_unless.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is in preparation for more generic atomic primitives based on
__atomic_add_unless.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atomic: use &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:06+00:00</published>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Get rid of branches to .subsections.</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T18:08:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-29T18:08:24+00:00</published>
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It was a nice optimization - on paper at least.  In practice it results in
branches that may exceed the maximum legal range for a branch.  We can
fight that problem with -ffunction-sections but -ffunction-sections again
is incompatible with -pg used by the function tracer.

By rewriting the loop around all simple LL/SC blocks to C we reduce the
amount of inline assembler and at the same time allow GCC to often fill
the branch delay slots with something sensible or whatever else clever
optimization it may have up in its sleeve.

With this optimization gone we also no longer need -ffunction-sections,
so drop it.

This optimization was originally introduced in 2.6.21, commit
5999eca25c1fd4b9b9aca7833b04d10fe4bc877d (linux-mips.org) rsp.
f65e4fa8e0c6022ad58dc88d1b11b12589ed7f9f (kernel.org).

Original fix for the issues which caused me to pull this optimization by
Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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It was a nice optimization - on paper at least.  In practice it results in
branches that may exceed the maximum legal range for a branch.  We can
fight that problem with -ffunction-sections but -ffunction-sections again
is incompatible with -pg used by the function tracer.

By rewriting the loop around all simple LL/SC blocks to C we reduce the
amount of inline assembler and at the same time allow GCC to often fill
the branch delay slots with something sensible or whatever else clever
optimization it may have up in its sleeve.

With this optimization gone we also no longer need -ffunction-sections,
so drop it.

This optimization was originally introduced in 2.6.21, commit
5999eca25c1fd4b9b9aca7833b04d10fe4bc877d (linux-mips.org) rsp.
f65e4fa8e0c6022ad58dc88d1b11b12589ed7f9f (kernel.org).

Original fix for the issues which caused me to pull this optimization by
Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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