From: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 05/15] ARM: mcpm_head.S: vlock-based first man election
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:04:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510B53FF.2020603@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359445870-18925-6-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
On Tuesday 29 January 2013 01:21 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> From: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
>
> Instead of requiring the first man to be elected in advance (which
> can be suboptimal in some situations), this patch uses a per-
> cluster mutex to co-ordinate selection of the first man.
>
> This should also make it more feasible to reuse this code path for
> asynchronous cluster resume (as in CPUidle scenarios).
>
> We must ensure that the vlock data doesn't share a cacheline with
> anything else, or dirty cache eviction could corrupt it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar<santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Regards,
Santosh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 7:50 [PATCH v3 00/15] multi-cluster power management Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] ARM: multi-cluster PM: secondary kernel entry code Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 15:45 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] ARM: mcpm: introduce the CPU/cluster power API Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 15:55 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 16:08 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-31 17:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:10 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-01 17:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:29 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] ARM: mcpm_head.S: vlock-based first man election Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:34 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] ARM: mcpm: generic SMP secondary bringup and hotplug support Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 20:38 ` Rob Herring
2013-02-01 5:38 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] ARM: vexpress: Select the correct SMP operations at run-time Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 15:43 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-01-29 19:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:41 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-01 17:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] ARM: introduce common set_auxcr/get_auxcr functions Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] ARM: vexpress: introduce DCSCB support Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:50 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: add CPU use counts to the power up/down API implementation Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:53 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: do not hardcode number of CPUs per cluster Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:57 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-01 17:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-02 6:54 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] drivers/bus: add ARM CCI support Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 6:01 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] ARM: CCI: ensure powerdown-time data is flushed from cache Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 6:13 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-02 22:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-03 10:07 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-03 18:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-04 5:25 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: handle platform coherency exit/setup and CCI Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 10:46 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-01-29 18:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 17:27 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-02-01 6:15 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: probe via device tree Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 21:01 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-29 21:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 12:22 ` Achin Gupta
2013-01-30 17:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 10:54 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-04 4:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-04 14:24 ` [PATCH v3 00/15] multi-cluster power management Will Deacon
2013-02-04 20:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
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