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author | Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> | 2015-08-19 14:53:58 +0300 |
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committer | Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> | 2015-08-20 16:35:49 +0300 |
commit | 090749502ff20d7d9ec244036fe636b6bf0433b6 (patch) | |
tree | 52ce66c6c0a525b4a9eff0ee5917c52f72479ead /arch/arc | |
parent | 6de6066c0d24a66df465cf87a4041ef7ef35ba6f (diff) | |
download | linux-090749502ff20d7d9ec244036fe636b6bf0433b6.tar.xz |
ARC: add/fix some comments in code - no functional change
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/boot/dts/axc003.dtsi | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/plat-axs10x/axs10x.c | 2 |
6 files changed, 23 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/boot/dts/axc003.dtsi b/arch/arc/boot/dts/axc003.dtsi index 1cd5e82f5dc2..846481f37eef 100644 --- a/arch/arc/boot/dts/axc003.dtsi +++ b/arch/arc/boot/dts/axc003.dtsi @@ -72,12 +72,13 @@ }; /* - * This INTC is actually connected to DW APB GPIO - * which acts as a wire between MB INTC and CPU INTC. - * GPIO INTC is configured in platform init code - * and here we mimic direct connection from MB INTC to - * CPU INTC, thus we set "interrupts = <7>" instead of - * "interrupts = <12>" + * The DW APB ICTL intc on MB is connected to CPU intc via a + * DT "invisible" DW APB GPIO block, configured to simply pass thru + * interrupts - setup accordinly in platform init (plat-axs10x/ax10x.c) + * + * So here we mimic a direct connection betwen them, ignoring the + * ABPG GPIO. Thus set "interrupts = <24>" (DW APB GPIO to core) + * instead of "interrupts = <12>" (DW APB ICTL to DW APB GPIO) * * This intc actually resides on MB, but we move it here to * avoid duplicating the MB dtsi file given that IRQ from diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h index 44fd531f4d7b..af7a2db139c9 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h @@ -110,18 +110,18 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long val, volatile void *ptr, sizeof(*(ptr)))) /* - * On ARC700, EX insn is inherently atomic, so by default "vanilla" xchg() need - * not require any locking. However there's a quirk. - * ARC lacks native CMPXCHG, thus emulated (see above), using external locking - - * incidently it "reuses" the same atomic_ops_lock used by atomic APIs. - * Now, llist code uses cmpxchg() and xchg() on same data, so xchg() needs to - * abide by same serializing rules, thus ends up using atomic_ops_lock as well. + * xchg() maps directly to ARC EX instruction which guarantees atomicity. + * However in !LLSC config, it also needs to be use @atomic_ops_lock spinlock + * due to a subtle reason: + * - For !LLSC, cmpxchg() needs to use that lock (see above) and there is lot + * of kernel code which calls xchg()/cmpxchg() on same data (see llist.h) + * Hence xchg() needs to follow same locking rules. * - * This however is only relevant if SMP and/or ARC lacks LLSC - * if (UP or LLSC) - * xchg doesn't need serialization - * else <==> !(UP or LLSC) <==> (!UP and !LLSC) <==> (SMP and !LLSC) - * xchg needs serialization + * Technically the lock is also needed for UP (boils down to irq save/restore) + * but we can cheat a bit since cmpxchg() atomic_ops_lock() would cause irqs to + * be disabled thus can't possibly be interrpted/preempted/clobbered by xchg() + * Other way around, xchg is one instruction anyways, so can't be interrupted + * as such */ #if !defined(CONFIG_ARC_HAS_LLSC) && defined(CONFIG_SMP) diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h index 2b8880e953a2..e2eaf6fb0468 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static const char * const arc_pmu_ev_hw_map[] = { /* counts condition */ [PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS] = "iall", - [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS] = "ijmp", + [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS] = "ijmp", /* Excludes ZOL jumps */ [PERF_COUNT_ARC_BPOK] = "bpok", /* NP-NT, PT-T, PNT-NT */ [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] = "bpfail", /* NP-T, PT-NT, PNT-T */ diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c index 1287388c258a..79ab199a9778 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ static void arc_pmu_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags) event->hw.state = 0; /* enable ARC pmu here */ - write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_INDEX, idx); - write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_CONFIG, hwc->config); + write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_INDEX, idx); /* counter # */ + write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_CONFIG, hwc->config); /* condition */ } static void arc_pmu_stop(struct perf_event *event, int flags) diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c index 44092456776f..91d5a0f1f3f7 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void); * ------------------ * | r25 | <==== top of Stack (thread.ksp) * ~ ~ - * | --to-- | (CALLEE Regs of user mode) + * | --to-- | (CALLEE Regs of kernel mode) * | r13 | * ------------------ * | fp | diff --git a/arch/arc/plat-axs10x/axs10x.c b/arch/arc/plat-axs10x/axs10x.c index e7769c3ab5f2..ad9825d4026a 100644 --- a/arch/arc/plat-axs10x/axs10x.c +++ b/arch/arc/plat-axs10x/axs10x.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static void __init axs10x_enable_gpio_intc_wire(void) * ------------------- ------------------- * | snps,dw-apb-gpio | | snps,dw-apb-gpio | * ------------------- ------------------- - * | | + * | #12 | * | [ Debug UART on cpu card ] * | * ------------------------ |