[RFC PATCH 4/6] ARM: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on ASID-capable CPUs

Frank Rowand frank.rowand at am.sony.com
Wed Nov 30 21:57:07 EST 2011


On 11/29/11 04:22, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Since the ASIDs must be unique to an mm across all the CPUs in a system,
> the __new_context() function needs to broadcast a context reset event to
> all the CPUs during ASID allocation if a roll-over occurred. Such IPIs
> cannot be issued with interrupts disabled and ARM had to define
> __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW.
> 
> This patch changes the check_context() function to
> check_and_switch_context() called from switch_mm(). In case of
> ASID-capable CPUs (ARMv6 onwards), if a new ASID is needed, it defers
> the __new_context() and cpu_switch_mm() calls to the post-lock switch
> hook where the interrupts are enabled. Setting the reserved TTBR0 was
> also moved to check_and_switch_context() from cpu_v7_switch_mm().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h |   81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  arch/arm/include/asm/system.h      |    2 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h |    1 +
>  arch/arm/mm/context.c              |    4 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S              |    3 -
>  5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 

< snip >

> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> index 2faff3b..d5334d9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> @@ -116,9 +116,6 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v7_switch_mm)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_430973
>  	mcr	p15, 0, r2, c7, c5, 6		@ flush BTAC/BTB
>  #endif
> -	mrc	p15, 0, r2, c2, c0, 1		@ load TTB 1
> -	mcr	p15, 0, r2, c2, c0, 0		@ into TTB 0
> -	isb
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_754322
>  	dsb
>  #endif

I do not have a tree that matches this version of cpu_v7_switch_mm().
Can you point me at a tree that I can see this in?

-Frank




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