[GIT PULL] Barrier updates for 3.12
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Aug 12 13:28:44 EDT 2013
Hi Russell,
Please pull the following barriers updates for 3.12. This series gives a
notable performance boost in hackbench benchmarks, and facilitates the use
of {non,inner}-shareable maintenance and memory barrier operations within
the kernel.
Cheers,
Will
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The following changes since commit c095ba7224d8edc71dcef0d655911399a8bd4a3f:
Linux 3.11-rc4 (2013-08-04 13:46:46 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git for-rmk/barriers
for you to fetch changes up to 6af396a6b6c698eb3834184518fc9a59bc22c817:
ARM: cacheflush: use -ishst dsb variant for ensuring flush completion (2013-08-12 12:25:46 +0100)
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Will Deacon (12):
ARM: mm: remove redundant dsb() prior to range TLB invalidation
ARM: tlb: don't perform inner-shareable invalidation for local TLB ops
ARM: tlb: don't bother with barriers for branch predictor maintenance
ARM: tlb: don't perform inner-shareable invalidation for local BP ops
ARM: barrier: allow options to be passed to memory barrier instructions
ARM: tlb: reduce scope of barrier domains for TLB invalidation
ARM: mm: use inner-shareable barriers for TLB and user cache operations
ARM: spinlock: use inner-shareable dsb variant prior to sev instruction
ARM: kvm: use inner-shareable barriers after TLB flushing
ARM: mcpm: use -st dsb option prior to sev instructions
ARM: l2x0: use -st dsb option for ordering writel_relaxed with unlock
ARM: cacheflush: use -ishst dsb variant for ensuring flush completion
arch/arm/common/mcpm_head.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/common/vlock.S | 4 ++--
arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h | 4 ++--
arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c | 10 +++++-----
arch/arm/kvm/init.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S | 4 ++--
arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S | 4 ++--
arch/arm/mm/context.c | 7 +------
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 1 -
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/tlb-v7.S | 8 ++++----
17 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
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