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[v2,18/19] ARC: [plat-eznps] replace sync with proper cpu barrier

Message ID 1446893557-29748-19-git-send-email-noamc@ezchip.com
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Noam Camus Nov. 7, 2015, 10:52 a.m. UTC 
From: Tal Zilcer <talz@ezchip.com>

In SMT system like we have the generic "sync" is not working with
HW threads. The replacement is "schd.rw" instruction that is served
as cpu barrier for HW threads.
Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
---
 arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Vineet Gupta Nov. 17, 2015, 11:12 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Saturday 07 November 2015 04:22 PM, Noam Camus wrote:
> From: Tal Zilcer <talz@ezchip.com>
> 
> In SMT system like we have the generic "sync" is not working with
> HW threads. The replacement is "schd.rw" instruction that is served
> as cpu barrier for HW threads.

As discussed in v2 of this patch, SYNC or some such in __switch_to is completely
superfluous. We don't need this patch, you may instead wanna submit a patch which
removes the sync. Also please do that in assembler version of this file as well !

> Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
> ---
>  arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
> index 92e2e82..2a2f50e 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
> +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_task, struct task_struct *next_task)
>  		"st      sp, [r24]       \n\t"
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT
> +		".word %5   \n\t"
> +#else
>  		"sync   \n\t"
> +#endif
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * setup _current_task with incoming tsk.
> @@ -122,6 +126,9 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_task, struct task_struct *next_task)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARC_PLAT_EZNPS
>  		, "i"(CTOP_AUX_LOGIC_GLOBAL_ID)
>  #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT
> +		, "i"(CTOP_INST_SCHD_RW)
> +#endif
>  		: "blink"
>  	);
>  
>
Peter Zijlstra Nov. 17, 2015, 11:23 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:42:49PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Saturday 07 November 2015 04:22 PM, Noam Camus wrote:
> > From: Tal Zilcer <talz@ezchip.com>
> > 
> > In SMT system like we have the generic "sync" is not working with
> > HW threads. The replacement is "schd.rw" instruction that is served
> > as cpu barrier for HW threads.
> 
> As discussed in v2 of this patch, SYNC or some such in __switch_to is completely
> superfluous. We don't need this patch, you may instead wanna submit a patch which
> removes the sync. Also please do that in assembler version of this file as well !

Do test it though; as is ARC-SMP seems to have a _lot_ of superfluous
barriers many of which have no explanation yet (I'm thinking of those
extra smp_mb()s in the lock primitives).
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
index 92e2e82..2a2f50e 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ctx_sw.c
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@  __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_task, struct task_struct *next_task)
 		"st      sp, [r24]       \n\t"
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT
+		".word %5   \n\t"
+#else
 		"sync   \n\t"
+#endif
 
 		/*
 		 * setup _current_task with incoming tsk.
@@ -122,6 +126,9 @@  __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_task, struct task_struct *next_task)
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARC_PLAT_EZNPS
 		, "i"(CTOP_AUX_LOGIC_GLOBAL_ID)
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT
+		, "i"(CTOP_INST_SCHD_RW)
+#endif
 		: "blink"
 	);