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* ARC: SMP supportVineet Gupta2013-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ARC common code to enable a SMP system + ISS provided SMP extensions. ARC700 natively lacks SMP support, hence some of the core features are are only enabled if SoCs have the necessary h/w pixie-dust. This includes: -Inter Processor Interrupts (IPI) -Cache coherency -load-locked/store-conditional ... The low level exception handling would be completely broken in SMP because we don't have hardware assisted stack switching. Thus a fair bit of this code is repurposing the MMU_SCRATCH reg for event handler prologues to keep them re-entrant. Many thanks to Rajeshwar Ranga for his initial "major" contributions to SMP Port (back in 2008), and to Noam Camus and Gilad Ben-Yossef for help with resurrecting that in 3.2 kernel (2012). Note that this platform code is again singleton design pattern - so multiple SMP platforms won't build at the moment - this deficiency is addressed in subsequent patches within this series. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
* ARC: [optim] Cache "current" in Register r25Vineet Gupta2013-02-15
| | | | Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* ARC: Process-creation/scheduling/idle-loopVineet Gupta2013-02-11
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>