[GIT PULL] New ASID allocator for 3.8

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Nov 9 10:09:33 EST 2012


Hi Russell,

This has been in -next for a while now and we've been playing with it
internally for even longer than that. It hasn't received as much review
as I would have liked but I'm confident in my understanding of the code.

Cheers,

Will


The following changes since commit 3d70f8c617a436c7146ecb81df2265b4626dfe89:

  Linux 3.7-rc4 (2012-11-04 11:07:39 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git asid-allocation

Will Deacon (3):
      ARM: mm: remove IPI broadcasting on ASID rollover
      ARM: mm: avoid taking ASID spinlock on fastpath
      ARM: mm: use bitmap operations when allocating new ASIDs

 arch/arm/include/asm/mmu.h         |   11 +--
 arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h |   82 +--------------
 arch/arm/mm/context.c              |  207 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 3 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-)



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