[PATCH v1 16/20] ARC: [plat-eznps] Use dedicated cpu_relax()

Noam Camus noamc at ezchip.com
Sat Oct 31 06:15:23 PDT 2015


From: Tal Zilcer <talz at ezchip.com>

Since the CTOP is SMT hardware multi-threaded, we need to hint
the HW that now will be a very good time to do a hardware
thread context switching. This is done by issuing the schd.rw
instruction (binary coded here so as to not require specific
revision of GCC to build the kernel).
sched.rw means that Thread becomes eligible for execution by
the threads scheduler after all pending read/write
transactions were completed.

Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc at ezchip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
---
 arch/arc/include/asm/processor.h |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/processor.h
index 7266ede..f1a51a6 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@ struct task_struct;
  * get optimised away by gcc
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT
+#define cpu_relax()     \
+	__asm__ __volatile__ (".word %0" : : "i"(CTOP_INST_SCHD_RW) : "memory")
+#else
 #define cpu_relax()	__asm__ __volatile__ ("" : : : "memory")
+#endif
 #else
 #define cpu_relax()	do { } while (0)
 #endif
-- 
1.7.1




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