MIPS: Make use of the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6
authorMarkos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:37:32 +0000 (12:37 +0000)
committerMarkos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:37:37 +0000 (15:37 +0000)
commit7c151d3d5d7a032e08dbe86ad6088622391bf13e
tree362d5ffcf8fea7c26373750efb106ca1e41c275f
parentb0a668fb2038d846a466c7a16a358d874002b697
MIPS: Make use of the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6

The ERETNC instruction, introduced in MIPS R5, is similar to the ERET
one, except it does not clear the LLB bit in the LLADDR register.
This feature is necessary to safely emulate R2 LL/SC instructions.
However, on context switches, we need to clear the LLAddr/LLB bit
in order to make sure that an SC instruction from the new thread
will never succeed if it happens to interrupt an LL operation on the
same address from the previous thread.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h
arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c
arch/mips/kernel/entry.S
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c