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 <kevink@paralogos.com> is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.
Based on Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com> 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 <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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 <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The definition of the CP0 register used to save the smp processor
id is repicated in many files, move them all to thread_info.h.
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5708/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The ABI allows these to be clobbered on syscalls, so only save and
restore the multiplier state when the temporary registers need to be
preserved.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5540/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
All exceptions must be taken in microMIPS mode, never in classic
MIPS mode or the kernel falls apart. A few NOP instructions are
used to maintain the correct alignment of microMIPS versions of
the exception vectors.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
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 <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reported-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2753/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Processors that support the mips64r2 ISA can in four instructions
convert a shifted PGD pointer stored in the upper bits of c0_context
into a usable pointer. By doing this we save a memory load and
associated potential cache miss in the TLB exception handlers.
Since the upper bits of c0_context were holding the CPU number, we
move this to the upper bits of c0_xcontext which doesn't have enough
bits to hold the PGD pointer, but has plenty for the CPU number.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For OCTEON, implement a save and restore of the multiplier state
across context switches.
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle