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<title>linux.git/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c, branch v3.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: detect presence of MAARs</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T22:06:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-14T09:32:14+00:00</published>
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Detect the presence of MAAR using the MRP bit in Config5, and record
that presence using a CPU option bit. A cpu_has_maar macro will then
allow code to conditionalise upon the presence of MAARs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7330/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Detect the presence of MAAR using the MRP bit in Config5, and record
that presence using a CPU option bit. A cpu_has_maar macro will then
allow code to conditionalise upon the presence of MAARs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7330/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: ensure MSA gets disabled during boot</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T22:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-11T15:44:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3587ea888b8ed0a3d7e792738b4db687d9e7f73b'/>
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The kernel relies upon MSA being disabled when a task begins running,
so that it can initialise or restore context in response to the
resulting MSA disabled exception. Previously the state of MSA following
boot was left as it was before the kernel ran, where MSA could
potentially have been enabled. Explicitly disable it during boot to
prevent any problems.

As a nice side effect the code reads a little better too.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7306/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The kernel relies upon MSA being disabled when a task begins running,
so that it can initialise or restore context in response to the
resulting MSA disabled exception. Previously the state of MSA following
boot was left as it was before the kernel ran, where MSA could
potentially have been enabled. Explicitly disable it during boot to
prevent any problems.

As a nice side effect the code reads a little better too.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7306/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: kernel: cpu-probe: Detect unique RI/XI exceptions</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T22:06:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonid Yegoshin</name>
<email>Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-15T13:09:57+00:00</published>
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Detect if the core supports unique exception codes for the
Read-Inhibit and Execute-Inhibit exceptions and set the
option accordingly. The RI/XI exception support is detected
by setting the 27th bit (IEC) of the PageGrain C0 register
and reading back the value of that register to verify the
bit is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7340/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Detect if the core supports unique exception codes for the
Read-Inhibit and Execute-Inhibit exceptions and set the
option accordingly. The RI/XI exception support is detected
by setting the 27th bit (IEC) of the PageGrain C0 register
and reading back the value of that register to verify the
bit is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7340/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: kernel: cpu-probe: Add support for the HardWare Table Walker</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T22:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-14T11:46:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3d528b326d7da8e28ec62c2ff1a92e85d93af098'/>
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<content type='text'>
Detect if the core implements the HTW and set the option accordingly.
Also, add a new kernel parameter called 'nohtw' allowing
the user to disable the htw support and fallback to the software
refill handler.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7335/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Detect if the core implements the HTW and set the option accordingly.
Also, add a new kernel parameter called 'nohtw' allowing
the user to disable the htw support and fallback to the software
refill handler.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7335/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add Loongson-3B support</title>
<updated>2014-07-30T19:47:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhc@lemote.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-26T03:41:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e7841be50fe2b8751a51a068b8cdcdcb6611e354'/>
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<content type='text'>
Loongson-3B is a 8-cores processor. In general it looks like there are
two Loongson-3A integrated in one chip: 8 cores are separated into two
groups (two NUMA node), each node has its own local memory.

Of course there are some differences between one Loongson-3B and two
Loongson-3A. E.g., the base addresses of IPI registers of each node are
not the same; Loongson-3A use ChipConfig register to enable/disable
clock, but Loongson-3B use FreqControl register instead.

There are two revision of Loongson-3B, the first revision is called as
Loongson-3B1000, whose frequency is 1GHz and has a PRid 0x6306, the
second revision is called as Loongson-3B1500, whose frequency is 1.5GHz
and has a PRid 0x6307. Both revisions has a bug that clock cannot be
disabled at runtime, but this will be fixed in future.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7188/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Loongson-3B is a 8-cores processor. In general it looks like there are
two Loongson-3A integrated in one chip: 8 cores are separated into two
groups (two NUMA node), each node has its own local memory.

Of course there are some differences between one Loongson-3B and two
Loongson-3A. E.g., the base addresses of IPI registers of each node are
not the same; Loongson-3A use ChipConfig register to enable/disable
clock, but Loongson-3B use FreqControl register instead.

There are two revision of Loongson-3B, the first revision is called as
Loongson-3B1000, whose frequency is 1GHz and has a PRid 0x6306, the
second revision is called as Loongson-3B1500, whose frequency is 1.5GHz
and has a PRid 0x6307. Both revisions has a bug that clock cannot be
disabled at runtime, but this will be fixed in future.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Steven J. Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7188/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add function get_ebase_cpunum</title>
<updated>2014-05-30T19:01:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Daney</name>
<email>david.daney@cavium.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-28T21:52:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=45b585c8dcdc469bb40b58cc2801acd7a2332525'/>
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<content type='text'>
This returns the CPUNum from the low order Ebase bits.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann &lt;andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7012/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<pre>
This returns the CPUNum from the low order Ebase bits.

Signed-off-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann &lt;andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7012/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Implement random_get_entropy with CP0 Random</title>
<updated>2014-05-30T16:21:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-06T20:31:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=06947aaaf9bf7da0b29e211ee1a44f3ca91c08fa'/>
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<content type='text'>
Update to commit 9c9b415c50bc298ac61412dff856eae2f54889ee [MIPS:
Reimplement get_cycles().]

On systems were for whatever reasons we can't use the cycle counter, fall
back to the c0_random register as an entropy source.  It has however a
very small range that makes it suitable for random_get_entropy only and
not get_cycles.

This optimised version compiles to 8 instructions in the fast path even in
the worst case of all the conditions to check being variable (including a
MFC0 move delay slot that is only required for very old processors):

     828:	8cf90000 	lw	t9,0(a3)
			828: R_MIPS_LO16	jiffies
     82c:	40057800 	mfc0	a1,c0_prid
     830:	3c0200ff 	lui	v0,0xff
     834:	00a21024 	and	v0,a1,v0
     838:	1040007d 	beqz	v0,a30 &lt;add_interrupt_randomness+0x22c&gt;
     83c:	3c030000 	lui	v1,0x0
			83c: R_MIPS_HI16	cpu_data
     840:	40024800 	mfc0	v0,c0_count
     844:	00000000 	nop
     848:	00409021 	move	s2,v0
     84c:	8ce20000 	lw	v0,0(a3)
			84c: R_MIPS_LO16	jiffies

On most targets the sequence will be shorter and on some it will reduce to
a single `MFC0 &lt;reg&gt;,c0_count', as all MIPS architecture (i.e. non-legacy
MIPS) processors require the CP0 Count register to be present.

The only known exception that reports MIPS architecture compliance, but
contrary to that lacks CP0 Count is the Ingenic JZ4740 thingy.  For broken
platforms like that this code requires cpu_has_counter to be hardcoded to
0 (i.e. no variable setting is permitted) so as not to penalise all the
other good platforms out there.

The asm barrier is required so that the compiler does not pull any
potentially costly (cold cache!) `cpu_data' variable access into the fast
path.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew McGregor &lt;andrewmcgr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Taht &lt;dave.taht@bufferbloat.net&gt;
Cc: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Cc: Simon Kelley &lt;simon@thekelleys.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jim Gettys &lt;jg@freedesktop.org&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6702/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Update to commit 9c9b415c50bc298ac61412dff856eae2f54889ee [MIPS:
Reimplement get_cycles().]

On systems were for whatever reasons we can't use the cycle counter, fall
back to the c0_random register as an entropy source.  It has however a
very small range that makes it suitable for random_get_entropy only and
not get_cycles.

This optimised version compiles to 8 instructions in the fast path even in
the worst case of all the conditions to check being variable (including a
MFC0 move delay slot that is only required for very old processors):

     828:	8cf90000 	lw	t9,0(a3)
			828: R_MIPS_LO16	jiffies
     82c:	40057800 	mfc0	a1,c0_prid
     830:	3c0200ff 	lui	v0,0xff
     834:	00a21024 	and	v0,a1,v0
     838:	1040007d 	beqz	v0,a30 &lt;add_interrupt_randomness+0x22c&gt;
     83c:	3c030000 	lui	v1,0x0
			83c: R_MIPS_HI16	cpu_data
     840:	40024800 	mfc0	v0,c0_count
     844:	00000000 	nop
     848:	00409021 	move	s2,v0
     84c:	8ce20000 	lw	v0,0(a3)
			84c: R_MIPS_LO16	jiffies

On most targets the sequence will be shorter and on some it will reduce to
a single `MFC0 &lt;reg&gt;,c0_count', as all MIPS architecture (i.e. non-legacy
MIPS) processors require the CP0 Count register to be present.

The only known exception that reports MIPS architecture compliance, but
contrary to that lacks CP0 Count is the Ingenic JZ4740 thingy.  For broken
platforms like that this code requires cpu_has_counter to be hardcoded to
0 (i.e. no variable setting is permitted) so as not to penalise all the
other good platforms out there.

The asm barrier is required so that the compiler does not pull any
potentially costly (cold cache!) `cpu_data' variable access into the fast
path.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew McGregor &lt;andrewmcgr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Taht &lt;dave.taht@bufferbloat.net&gt;
Cc: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Cc: Simon Kelley &lt;simon@thekelleys.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jim Gettys &lt;jg@freedesktop.org&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6702/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Netlogic: Add support for XLP5XX</title>
<updated>2014-05-30T14:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>ysong@broadcom.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T14:37:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1c98398662c9b4e2f03f64344f83dd6cb14e0420'/>
<id>1c98398662c9b4e2f03f64344f83dd6cb14e0420</id>
<content type='text'>
Add support for the XLP5XX processor which is an 8 core variant of the
XLP9XX. Add XLP5XX cases to code which earlier handled XLP9XX.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;ysong@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C &lt;jchandra@broadcom.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6871/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Add support for the XLP5XX processor which is an 8 core variant of the
XLP9XX. Add XLP5XX cases to code which earlier handled XLP9XX.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;ysong@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C &lt;jchandra@broadcom.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6871/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: MT: Remove SMTC support</title>
<updated>2014-05-23T22:07:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-23T14:29:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b633648c5ad3cfbda0b3daea50d2135d44899259'/>
<id>b633648c5ad3cfbda0b3daea50d2135d44899259</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;kevink@paralogos.com&gt; is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.

Based on Markos Chandras &lt;Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com&gt; 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 &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
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 &lt;kevink@paralogos.com&gt; is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.

Based on Markos Chandras &lt;Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com&gt; 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 &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: RM9000: Remove support for probing the CPU core.</title>
<updated>2014-05-23T13:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-22T15:21:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=722640a9898195c94a60b9773176dd9ea0892229'/>
<id>722640a9898195c94a60b9773176dd9ea0892229</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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