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Rickard Strandqvist 50b9ac1813 arch: tile: kernel: unaligned.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables
There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.

This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [minor cleanups]
2014-06-07 21:39:11 -04:00
Chris Metcalf 4db30e38ec tile: fix typos in comment in arch/tile/kernel/unaligned.c
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2013-09-13 10:57:54 -04:00
Chris Metcalf 2f9ac29eec tile: fast-path unaligned memory access for tilegx
This change enables unaligned userspace memory access via a kernel
fast path on tilegx.  The kernel tracks user PC/instruction pairs
per-thread using a direct-mapped cache in userspace.  The cache
maps those PC/instruction pairs to JIT'ed instruction sequences that
load or store using byte-wide load store intructions and then
synthesize 2-, 4- or 8-byte load or store results.  Once an
instruction has been seen to generate an unaligned access once,
subsequent hits on that instruction typically require overhead
of only around 50 cycles if cache and TLB is hot.

We support the prctl() PR_GET_UNALIGN / PR_SET_UNALIGN sys call to
enable or disable unaligned fixups on a per-process basis.

To do this we pull some of the tilepro unaligned support out of the
single_step.c file; tilepro uses instruction disassembly for both
single-step and unaligned access support.  Since tilegx actually has
hardware singlestep support, though, it's cleaner to keep the tilegx
unaligned access code in a separate file.  While we're at it,
properly rename the tilepro-specific types, etc., to have tilepro
suffixes instead of generic tile suffixes.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2013-08-13 16:04:10 -04:00