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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-12-08 18:25:06 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-12-08 18:25:06 +0400
commitf0b9abfb044649bc452fb2fb975ff2fd599cc6a3 (patch)
tree7800081c5cb16a4dfee1e57a70f3be90f7b50d9a /arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h
parentadc1ef1e37358d3c17d1a74a58b2e104fc0bda15 (diff)
parent1b3c393cd43f22ead8a6a2f839efc6df8ebd7465 (diff)
downloadlinux-f0b9abfb044649bc452fb2fb975ff2fd599cc6a3.tar.xz
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/builtin-test.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c tools/perf/util/evsel.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h
index 4e5a483122a0..721e25f0e2ea 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h
@@ -196,7 +196,22 @@ extern unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *task);
#define KSTK_EIP(tsk) (task_pt_regs(tsk)->tpc)
#define KSTK_ESP(tsk) (task_pt_regs(tsk)->u_regs[UREG_FP])
-#define cpu_relax() barrier()
+/* Please see the commentary in asm/backoff.h for a description of
+ * what these instructions are doing and how they have been choosen.
+ * To make a long story short, we are trying to yield the current cpu
+ * strand during busy loops.
+ */
+#define cpu_relax() asm volatile("\n99:\n\t" \
+ "rd %%ccr, %%g0\n\t" \
+ "rd %%ccr, %%g0\n\t" \
+ "rd %%ccr, %%g0\n\t" \
+ ".section .pause_3insn_patch,\"ax\"\n\t"\
+ ".word 99b\n\t" \
+ "wr %%g0, 128, %%asr27\n\t" \
+ "nop\n\t" \
+ "nop\n\t" \
+ ".previous" \
+ ::: "memory")
/* Prefetch support. This is tuned for UltraSPARC-III and later.
* UltraSPARC-I will treat these as nops, and UltraSPARC-II has