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<title>MIPS: CPS: Fix MIPS_ISA_LEVEL_RAW fallout</title>
<updated>2018-02-05T11:53:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>jhogan@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2018-02-02T14:36:40+00:00</published>
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Commit 17278a91e04f ("MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning")
added .set MIPS_ISA_LEVEL_RAW to silence warnings about .set mt on r1,
however this can result in a MOVE being encoded as a 64-bit DADDU
instruction on certain version of binutils (e.g. 2.22), and reserved
instruction exceptions at runtime on 32-bit hardware.

Reduce the sizes of the push/pop sections to include only instructions
that are part of the MT ASE or which won't convert to 64-bit
instructions after .set mips64r2/mips64r6.

Reported-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Fixes: 17278a91e04f ("MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.15
Tested-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18578/
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Commit 17278a91e04f ("MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning")
added .set MIPS_ISA_LEVEL_RAW to silence warnings about .set mt on r1,
however this can result in a MOVE being encoded as a 64-bit DADDU
instruction on certain version of binutils (e.g. 2.22), and reserved
instruction exceptions at runtime on 32-bit hardware.

Reduce the sizes of the push/pop sections to include only instructions
that are part of the MT ASE or which won't convert to 64-bit
instructions after .set mips64r2/mips64r6.

Reported-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Fixes: 17278a91e04f ("MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.15
Tested-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18578/
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning</title>
<updated>2017-12-12T16:19:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>jhogan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T12:01:20+00:00</published>
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MIPS CPS has a build warning on kernels configured for MIPS32R1 or
MIPS64R1, due to the use of .set mt without a prior .set mips{32,64}r2:

arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S Assembler messages:
arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S:238: Warning: the `mt' extension requires MIPS32 revision 2 or greater

Add .set MIPS_ISA_LEVEL_RAW before .set mt to silence the warning.

Fixes: 245a7868d2f2 ("MIPS: smp-cps: rework core/VPE initialisation")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17699/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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MIPS CPS has a build warning on kernels configured for MIPS32R1 or
MIPS64R1, due to the use of .set mt without a prior .set mips{32,64}r2:

arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S Assembler messages:
arch/mips/kernel/cps-vec.S:238: Warning: the `mt' extension requires MIPS32 revision 2 or greater

Add .set MIPS_ISA_LEVEL_RAW before .set mt to silence the warning.

Fixes: 245a7868d2f2 ("MIPS: smp-cps: rework core/VPE initialisation")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@mips.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17699/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update MIPS email addresses</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T16:02:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-26T00:04:33+00:00</published>
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MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those who:

 - Have 10 or more patches in mainline authored using an @imgtec.com
   email address, or any patches dated within the past year.

 - Are still with Imagination but leaving as part of the MIPS business
   unit, as determined from an internal email address list.

 - Haven't already updated their email address (ie. JamesH) or expressed
   a desire to be excluded (ie. Maciej).

 - Acked v2 or earlier of this patch, which leaves Deng-Cheng, Matt &amp;
   myself.

New addresses are of the form firstname.lastname@mips.com, and all
verified against an internal email address list.  An entry is added to
.mailmap for each person such that get_maintainer.pl will report the new
addresses rather than @imgtec.com addresses which will soon be dead.

Instances of the affected addresses throughout the tree are then
mechanically replaced with the new @mips.com address.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dengcheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those who:

 - Have 10 or more patches in mainline authored using an @imgtec.com
   email address, or any patches dated within the past year.

 - Are still with Imagination but leaving as part of the MIPS business
   unit, as determined from an internal email address list.

 - Haven't already updated their email address (ie. JamesH) or expressed
   a desire to be excluded (ie. Maciej).

 - Acked v2 or earlier of this patch, which leaves Deng-Cheng, Matt &amp;
   myself.

New addresses are of the form firstname.lastname@mips.com, and all
verified against an internal email address list.  An entry is added to
.mailmap for each person such that get_maintainer.pl will report the new
addresses rather than @imgtec.com addresses which will soon be dead.

Instances of the affected addresses throughout the tree are then
mechanically replaced with the new @mips.com address.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dengcheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: CPS: Use GlobalNumber macros rather than magic numbers</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T22:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-13T02:49:34+00:00</published>
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We now have definitions for the GlobalNumber register in asm/mipsregs.h,
so use them in place of magic numbers in cps-vec.S.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17008/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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We now have definitions for the GlobalNumber register in asm/mipsregs.h,
so use them in place of magic numbers in cps-vec.S.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17008/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: CPS: Handle spurious VP starts more gracefully</title>
<updated>2017-06-29T00:42:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-02T21:48:55+00:00</published>
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On pre-r6 systems with the MT ASE the CPS SMP code included checks to
halt the VPE running mips_cps_boot_vpes() if its bit in the struct
core_boot_config vpe_mask field is clear. This was largely done in order
to allow us to start arbitrary VPEs within a core despite the fact that
hardware is typically configured to run only VPE0 after powering up a
core. VPE0 would start the desired other VPEs, halt itself, and the fact
that VPE0 started would be largely hidden &amp; irrelevant.

In MIPSr6 multithreading we have control over which VPs start executing
when a core powers up via the cores CPC registers accessed remotely
through the redirect block. For this reason the MIPSr6 multithreading
path in mips_cps_boot_vpes() hasn't bothered up until now to handle
halting the VP running it.

However it is possible to power up cores entirely in hardware by using a
pwr_up pin associated with the core. Unfortunately some systems wire
this pin to a logic 1, which means that it is possible for a core to
power up at a point that software doesn't expect. The result is that we
generally go execute the kernel on a CPU that ought not to be running &amp;
the results can be unpredictable.

Handle this case by stopping VPs that we don't expect to be running in
mips_cps_boot_vpes() - with this change even if a core powers up it will
do nothing useful &amp; all VPs within it will stop running before they
proceed to run general kernel code &amp; do any damage. Ideally we would
produce some sort of warning here, but given the stage of core bringup
this happens at that would be non-trivial. We also will only hit this if
a core starts up after being offlined via hotplug, and when that happens
we will already produce a warning that the CPU didn't power down in
cps_cpu_die() which seems sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16198/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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On pre-r6 systems with the MT ASE the CPS SMP code included checks to
halt the VPE running mips_cps_boot_vpes() if its bit in the struct
core_boot_config vpe_mask field is clear. This was largely done in order
to allow us to start arbitrary VPEs within a core despite the fact that
hardware is typically configured to run only VPE0 after powering up a
core. VPE0 would start the desired other VPEs, halt itself, and the fact
that VPE0 started would be largely hidden &amp; irrelevant.

In MIPSr6 multithreading we have control over which VPs start executing
when a core powers up via the cores CPC registers accessed remotely
through the redirect block. For this reason the MIPSr6 multithreading
path in mips_cps_boot_vpes() hasn't bothered up until now to handle
halting the VP running it.

However it is possible to power up cores entirely in hardware by using a
pwr_up pin associated with the core. Unfortunately some systems wire
this pin to a logic 1, which means that it is possible for a core to
power up at a point that software doesn't expect. The result is that we
generally go execute the kernel on a CPU that ought not to be running &amp;
the results can be unpredictable.

Handle this case by stopping VPs that we don't expect to be running in
mips_cps_boot_vpes() - with this change even if a core powers up it will
do nothing useful &amp; all VPs within it will stop running before they
proceed to run general kernel code &amp; do any damage. Ideally we would
produce some sort of warning here, but given the stage of core bringup
this happens at that would be non-trivial. We also will only hit this if
a core starts up after being offlined via hotplug, and when that happens
we will already produce a warning that the CPU didn't power down in
cps_cpu_die() which seems sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16198/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: smp-cps: Fix retrieval of VPE mask on big endian CPUs</title>
<updated>2017-03-21T19:39:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-21T14:39:19+00:00</published>
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The vpe_mask member of struct core_boot_config is of type atomic_t,
which is a 32bit type. In cps-vec.S this member was being retrieved by a
PTR_L macro, which on 64bit systems is a 64bit load. On little endian
systems this is OK, since the double word that is retrieved will have
the required less significant word in the correct position. However, on
big endian systems the less significant word of the load is retrieved
from address+4, and the more significant from address+0. The destination
register therefore ends up with the required word in the more
significant word
e.g. when starting the second VP of a big endian 64bit system, the load

PTR_L    ta2, COREBOOTCFG_VPEMASK(a0)

ends up setting register ta2 to 0x0000000300000000

When this value is written to the CPC it is ignored, since it is
invalid to write anything larger than 4 bits. This results in any VP
other than VP0 in a core failing to start in 64bit big endian systems.

Change the load to a 32bit load word instruction to fix the bug.

Fixes: f12401d7219f ("MIPS: smp-cps: Pull boot config retrieval out of mips_cps_boot_vpes")
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15787/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The vpe_mask member of struct core_boot_config is of type atomic_t,
which is a 32bit type. In cps-vec.S this member was being retrieved by a
PTR_L macro, which on 64bit systems is a 64bit load. On little endian
systems this is OK, since the double word that is retrieved will have
the required less significant word in the correct position. However, on
big endian systems the less significant word of the load is retrieved
from address+4, and the more significant from address+0. The destination
register therefore ends up with the required word in the more
significant word
e.g. when starting the second VP of a big endian 64bit system, the load

PTR_L    ta2, COREBOOTCFG_VPEMASK(a0)

ends up setting register ta2 to 0x0000000300000000

When this value is written to the CPC it is ignored, since it is
invalid to write anything larger than 4 bits. This results in any VP
other than VP0 in a core failing to start in 64bit big endian systems.

Change the load to a 32bit load word instruction to fix the bug.

Fixes: f12401d7219f ("MIPS: smp-cps: Pull boot config retrieval out of mips_cps_boot_vpes")
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15787/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: CPS: Copy EVA configuration when starting secondary VPs.</title>
<updated>2016-05-28T10:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T16:12:36+00:00</published>
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When starting secondary VPEs which support EVA and the SegCtl registers,
copy the memory segmentation configuration from the running VPE to ensure
that all VPEs in the core have a consistent virtual memory map.

The EVA configuration of secondary cores is dealt with when starting the
core via the CM.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13291/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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When starting secondary VPEs which support EVA and the SegCtl registers,
copy the memory segmentation configuration from the running VPE to ensure
that all VPEs in the core have a consistent virtual memory map.

The EVA configuration of secondary cores is dealt with when starting the
core via the CM.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13291/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: smp-cps: Stop printing EJTAG exceptions to UART</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T12:01:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-03T03:15:35+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_MIPS_CPS_NS16550 is enabled, some register state is dumped
to the UART when an exception is taken via the BEV on secondary cores.
EJTAG exceptions are architecturally expected to be handled by the BEV
even when Status.BEV is 0. This effectively means that if userland
executes an sdbbp instruction on a secondary core then the kernel dumps
register state to the UART even though the exception is perfectly normal
&amp; expected. Prevent this by simply not dumping information to the UART
for EJTAG exceptions.

Fixes: 609cf6f2291a ("MIPS: CPS: Early debug using an ns16550-compatible UART")
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12341/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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When CONFIG_MIPS_CPS_NS16550 is enabled, some register state is dumped
to the UART when an exception is taken via the BEV on secondary cores.
EJTAG exceptions are architecturally expected to be handled by the BEV
even when Status.BEV is 0. This effectively means that if userland
executes an sdbbp instruction on a secondary core then the kernel dumps
register state to the UART even though the exception is perfectly normal
&amp; expected. Prevent this by simply not dumping information to the UART
for EJTAG exceptions.

Fixes: 609cf6f2291a ("MIPS: CPS: Early debug using an ns16550-compatible UART")
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12341/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: smp-cps: Support MIPSr6 Virtual Processors</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T12:01:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-03T03:15:33+00:00</published>
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Introduce support for bringing up Virtual Processors in MIPSr6 systems
as CPUs, much like their VPE parallel from the now-deprecated MT ASE.
The existing mips_cps_boot_vpes function fits the MIPSr6 architecture
pretty well - it can now simply write the mask of running VPs to the
VC_RUN register, rather than looping through each &amp; starting or stopping
as appropriate as is done for VPEs from the MT ASE. Thus the VP support
is in general an extension &amp; simplification of the existing MT ASE VPE
(aka SMVP) support.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12339/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Introduce support for bringing up Virtual Processors in MIPSr6 systems
as CPUs, much like their VPE parallel from the now-deprecated MT ASE.
The existing mips_cps_boot_vpes function fits the MIPSr6 architecture
pretty well - it can now simply write the mask of running VPs to the
VC_RUN register, rather than looping through each &amp; starting or stopping
as appropriate as is done for VPEs from the MT ASE. Thus the VP support
is in general an extension &amp; simplification of the existing MT ASE VPE
(aka SMVP) support.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12339/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<title>MIPS: smp-cps: Skip core setup if coherent</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T12:01:50+00:00</updated>
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<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2016-02-03T03:15:32+00:00</published>
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In preparation for supporting MIPSr6 multithreading (ie. VPs) which will
begin execution from the core reset vector, skip core level setup if the
core is already coherent. This is never the case when a core is first
started, since boot_core explicitly clears the cores GCR_Cx_COH_EN
register, and always the case when secondary VPs start since the first
VP to start will have enabled coherence after initialising the core &amp;
its caches.

One notable side effect of this patch is that eva_init gets called
slightly earlier, prior to mips_cps_core_init rather than after it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12338/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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In preparation for supporting MIPSr6 multithreading (ie. VPs) which will
begin execution from the core reset vector, skip core level setup if the
core is already coherent. This is never the case when a core is first
started, since boot_core explicitly clears the cores GCR_Cx_COH_EN
register, and always the case when secondary VPs start since the first
VP to start will have enabled coherence after initialising the core &amp;
its caches.

One notable side effect of this patch is that eva_init gets called
slightly earlier, prior to mips_cps_core_init rather than after it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12338/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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