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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2013-02-13 20:21:35 +0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-02-15 09:58:52 +0400
commit98ae22e15b430bfed5def01ac1a88ec9396284c8 (patch)
treedc4119b4c88a094039206851c7f12f42b4ce75df /arch/powerpc/include/asm
parentafc07701ced6463786d09a3b9baf894c1397e991 (diff)
downloadlinux-98ae22e15b430bfed5def01ac1a88ec9396284c8.tar.xz
powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching
Here we add the helper functions to be used when context switching. These allow us to fully reclaim and recheckpoint a transaction. We introduce a new paca field called tm_scratch to help us store away register values when doing the low level tm reclaim register save. Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/tm.h20
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
index 7844c285f6e1..eee2a60994bf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
* HV mode in which case it is HSPRG0
*
* 64-bit server:
- * - SPRG0 unused (reserved for HV on Power4)
+ * - SPRG0 scratch for TM recheckpoint/reclaim (reserved for HV on Power4)
* - SPRG2 scratch for exception vectors
* - SPRG3 CPU and NUMA node for VDSO getcpu (user visible)
* - HSPRG0 stores PACA in HV mode
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tm.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4b4449abf3f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Transactional memory support routines to reclaim and recheckpoint
+ * transactional process state.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2012 Matt Evans & Michael Neuling, IBM Corporation.
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
+extern void do_load_up_transact_fpu(struct thread_struct *thread);
+extern void do_load_up_transact_altivec(struct thread_struct *thread);
+#endif
+
+extern void tm_enable(void);
+extern void tm_reclaim(struct thread_struct *thread,
+ unsigned long orig_msr, uint8_t cause);
+extern void tm_recheckpoint(struct thread_struct *thread,
+ unsigned long orig_msr);
+extern void tm_abort(uint8_t cause);
+extern void tm_save_sprs(struct thread_struct *thread);
+extern void tm_restore_sprs(struct thread_struct *thread);