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authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>2009-07-13 11:15:19 -0700
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2009-09-17 20:07:50 +0200
commitb791d1193af9772040e592d5aa161790f800b762 (patch)
tree6adad3d9cdf278a3a1a3418ae75a2864d0cc7f39 /arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
parentMIPS: Get rid of CONFIG_CPU_HAS_LLSC (diff)
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MIPS: Allow kernel use of LL/SC to be separate from the presence of LL/SC.
On some CPUs, it is more efficient to disable and enable interrupts in the kernel rather than use ll/sc for atomic operations. But if we were to set cpu_has_llsc to false, we would break the userspace futex interface (in asm/futex.h). We separate the two concepts, with a new predicate kernel_uses_llsc, that lets us disable the kernel's use of ll/sc while still allowing the futex code to use it. Also there were a couple of cases in bitops.h where we were using ll/sc unconditionally even if cpu_has_llsc were false. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
index 8ab1d12ba7f4..1f4df647c384 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@
#ifndef cpu_has_llsc
#define cpu_has_llsc (cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_LLSC)
#endif
+#ifndef kernel_uses_llsc
+#define kernel_uses_llsc cpu_has_llsc
+#endif
#ifndef cpu_has_mips16
#define cpu_has_mips16 (cpu_data[0].ases & MIPS_ASE_MIPS16)
#endif