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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-05-07 17:27:23 -0300 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-05-08 16:05:05 -0300 |
commit | 94cdda6b98b3708f04f426204542aa69d4780fa9 (patch) | |
tree | 627596b50bbc53001d8bb2e1d949b343ad966ee1 /tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h | |
parent | 827634added7f38b7d724cab1dccdb2b004c13c3 (diff) |
perf tools: Move sparc barrier.h stuff to tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier.h
We will need it for atomic.h, so move it from the ad-hoc tools/perf/
place to a tools/ subset of the kernel arch/ hierarchy.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f0d04b9x63grt30nahpw9ei0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h | 42 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h b/tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9a7d7322c3f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +#ifndef __TOOLS_LINUX_SPARC64_BARRIER_H +#define __TOOLS_LINUX_SPARC64_BARRIER_H + +/* Copied from the kernel sources to tools/: + * + * These are here in an effort to more fully work around Spitfire Errata + * #51. Essentially, if a memory barrier occurs soon after a mispredicted + * branch, the chip can stop executing instructions until a trap occurs. + * Therefore, if interrupts are disabled, the chip can hang forever. + * + * It used to be believed that the memory barrier had to be right in the + * delay slot, but a case has been traced recently wherein the memory barrier + * was one instruction after the branch delay slot and the chip still hung. + * The offending sequence was the following in sym_wakeup_done() of the + * sym53c8xx_2 driver: + * + * call sym_ccb_from_dsa, 0 + * movge %icc, 0, %l0 + * brz,pn %o0, .LL1303 + * mov %o0, %l2 + * membar #LoadLoad + * + * The branch has to be mispredicted for the bug to occur. Therefore, we put + * the memory barrier explicitly into a "branch always, predicted taken" + * delay slot to avoid the problem case. + */ +#define membar_safe(type) \ +do { __asm__ __volatile__("ba,pt %%xcc, 1f\n\t" \ + " membar " type "\n" \ + "1:\n" \ + : : : "memory"); \ +} while (0) + +/* The kernel always executes in TSO memory model these days, + * and furthermore most sparc64 chips implement more stringent + * memory ordering than required by the specifications. + */ +#define mb() membar_safe("#StoreLoad") +#define rmb() __asm__ __volatile__("":::"memory") +#define wmb() __asm__ __volatile__("":::"memory") + +#endif /* !(__TOOLS_LINUX_SPARC64_BARRIER_H) */ |