Re: diffs between lmo and mainline

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:30:50PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> commit b0e05a32a745a6e3ec5203f28a6bc044653e411a
> Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Date:   Thu Jun 21 00:22:34 2007 +0100
> 
>     [MIPS] Fix scheduling latency issue on 24K, 34K and 74K cores
>     
>     The idle loop goes to sleep using the WAIT instruction if !need_resched().
>     This has is suffering from from a race condition that if if just after
>     need_resched has returned 0 an interrupt might set TIF_NEED_RESCHED but
>     we've just completed the test so go to sleep anyway.  This would be
>     trivial to fix by just disabling interrupts during that sequence as in:
>     
>             local_irq_disable();
>             if (!need_resched())
>                     __asm__("wait");
>             local_irq_enable();
>     
>     but the processor architecture leaves it undefined if a processor calling
>     WAIT with interrupts disabled will ever restart its pipeline and indeed
>     some processors have made use of the freedom provided by the architecture
>     definition.  This has been resolved and the Config7.WII bit indicates that
>     the use of WAIT is safe on 24K, 24KE and 34K cores.  It also is safe on
>     74K EA so enable the use of WAIT with interrupts disabled for all 74K
>     cores.

Turned out that the 74K doesn't quite behave as I was hoping for so this
one can't go as it is either.

  Ralf