linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: leif.lindholm@arm.com (Leif Lindholm)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors	(v5)
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:04:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001cb4ac0$e5b2fd00$b118f700$@lindholm@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100901040801.GA10431@lixom.net>

> From: Olof Johansson [mailto:olof at lixom.net]
> >
> > This patch adds the alternative solution to emulate the SWP and SWPB
> > instructions using LDREX/STREX sequences, and log statistics to
> > /proc/cpu/swp_emulation. To correctly deal with copy-on-write, it
> also
> 
> Sounds like debugfs would be a better place to export this through?
> That's what PPC does.

It made sense to me to place it with /proc/cpu/alignment.
Moving both of these into debugfs might well make sense in the future,
but I think that should be a separate patch.

/
    Leif

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 13:57 [PATCH 0/9] Various patches for 2.6.37-rc1 Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 1/9] ARM: Allow lazy cache flushing via PG_arch_1 for highmem pages Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 2/9] ARM: Assume new page cache pages have dirty D-cache Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: Introduce __sync_icache_dcache() for VIPT caches Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: Use lazy cache flushing on ARMv7 SMP systems Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 5/9] ARM: Remove superfluous flush_kernel_dcache_page() Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 6/9] ARM: Implement phys_mem_access_prot() to avoid attributes aliasing Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 7/9] ARM: Improve the L2 cache performance when PL310 is used Catalin Marinas
2010-09-13 11:36   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-13 11:57     ` Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 13:58 ` [PATCH 9/9] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v5) Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 15:05   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-09-06 15:42     ` Catalin Marinas
2010-09-13 11:55       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-14 13:50         ` Leif Lindholm
2010-09-01  4:08   ` Olof Johansson
2010-09-02 17:04     ` Leif Lindholm [this message]
2010-09-02 17:20       ` Olof Johansson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='000001cb4ac0$e5b2fd00$b118f700$@lindholm@arm.com' \
    --to=leif.lindholm@arm.com \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).