[PATCH 07/10] ARC: [plat-eznps] disabled stall counter due to a HW bug

Noam Camus noamca at mellanox.com
Wed May 24 19:34:17 PDT 2017


From: Noam Camus <noamca at mellanox.com>

This counter represents threshold for consecutive stall that which
trigger HW threads scheduling.
Low values of this counter cause downgrade in performance
and in the worst case even a livelock.

Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca at mellanox.com>
---
 arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c b/arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c
index aaaaffd..e0cb36b 100644
--- a/arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c
+++ b/arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c
@@ -119,8 +119,6 @@ void mtm_enable_core(unsigned int cpu)
 	mt_ctrl.value = 0;
 	mt_ctrl.hsen = 1;
 	mt_ctrl.hs_cnt = MT_CTRL_HS_CNT;
-	mt_ctrl.sten = 1;
-	mt_ctrl.st_cnt = MT_CTRL_ST_CNT;
 	mt_ctrl.mten = 1;
 	write_aux_reg(CTOP_AUX_MT_CTRL, mt_ctrl.value);
 
-- 
1.7.1




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