[GIT PULL] Barrier updates for 3.12

[GIT PULL] Barrier updates for 3.12

[Will Deacon]

Hi Russell,

Please pull the following barriers updates for 3.12. This series gives a
notable performance boost in hackbench benchmarks, and facilitates the use
of {non,inner}-shareable maintenance and memory barrier operations within
the kernel.

Cheers,

Will

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The following changes since commit c095ba7224d8edc71dcef0d655911399a8bd4a3f:

  Linux 3.11-rc4 (2013-08-04 13:46:46 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git for-rmk/barriers

for you to fetch changes up to 6af396a6b6c698eb3834184518fc9a59bc22c817:

  ARM: cacheflush: use -ishst dsb variant for ensuring flush completion (2013-08-12 12:25:46 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Will Deacon (12):
      ARM: mm: remove redundant dsb() prior to range TLB invalidation
      ARM: tlb: don't perform inner-shareable invalidation for local TLB ops
      ARM: tlb: don't bother with barriers for branch predictor maintenance
      ARM: tlb: don't perform inner-shareable invalidation for local BP ops
      ARM: barrier: allow options to be passed to memory barrier instructions
      ARM: tlb: reduce scope of barrier domains for TLB invalidation
      ARM: mm: use inner-shareable barriers for TLB and user cache operations
      ARM: spinlock: use inner-shareable dsb variant prior to sev instruction
      ARM: kvm: use inner-shareable barriers after TLB flushing
      ARM: mcpm: use -st dsb option prior to sev instructions
      ARM: l2x0: use -st dsb option for ordering writel_relaxed with unlock
      ARM: cacheflush: use -ishst dsb variant for ensuring flush completion

 arch/arm/common/mcpm_head.S       |   2 +-
 arch/arm/common/vlock.S           |   4 ++--
 arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h  |   4 ++--
 arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h    |  32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h |   2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h   |   2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h  |  10 ++++++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h   | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
 arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c         |  10 +++++-----
 arch/arm/kvm/init.S               |   2 +-
 arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S         |   4 ++--
 arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c          |   2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S            |   4 ++--
 arch/arm/mm/context.c             |   7 +------
 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c         |   1 -
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S             |   2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/tlb-v7.S              |   8 ++++----
 17 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

[GIT PULL] Barrier updates for 3.12

[Stephen Boyd]

On 08/12, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Please pull the following barriers updates for 3.12. This series gives a
> notable performance boost in hackbench benchmarks, and facilitates the use
> of {non,inner}-shareable maintenance and memory barrier operations within
> the kernel.
> 

This patchset seems to have broken the build for people with
older binutils. It looks like gas didn't know about "ish" and
other exotic barrier flavors until the middle of 2010[1]. The
binutils I have that doesn't work is from codesourcery. I don't
know if fixing this is very important though, hopefully people
have moved on to compilers that aren't 3 years old.

 $ ld -v
 GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202) 2.19.51.20090709

[1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=b987d0526127b44414de15862e0d46f85e888c73

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