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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2014-04-18	arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()	Peter Zijlstra	1	-6/+0
	Implement the new barriers; as per the old versions the metag atomic imply a full barrier. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dqnyo215kq38wi4xcxnbpjw3@git.kernel.org Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-02	metag: Atomics, locks and bitops	James Hogan	1	-0/+132
	Add header files to implement Meta hardware thread locks (used by some other atomic operations), atomics, spinlocks, and bitops. There are 2 main types of atomic primitives for metag (in addition to IRQs off on UP): - LOCK instructions provide locking between hardware threads. - LNKGET/LNKSET instructions provide load-linked/store-conditional operations allowing for lighter weight atomics on Meta2 LOCK instructions allow for hardware threads to acquire voluntary or exclusive hardware thread locks: - LOCK0 releases exclusive and voluntary lock from the running hardware thread. - LOCK1 acquires the voluntary hardware lock, blocking until it becomes available. - LOCK2 implies LOCK1, and additionally acquires the exclusive hardware lock, blocking all other hardware threads from executing. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>