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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Add missing hazard barrier in TLB load handler.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:32:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130620133218.GA25622@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C2E3F5.7040507@cogentembedded.com>

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:13:57PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> >+#if !defined(CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON)
> 
>     Suggesting to use if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON)) to
> avoid #ifdef...

An ifdef in disguise.  IS_ENABLED() gives better coverage in build tests
but that's about it, it allows more readable formatting.  But that's
about it's advantages.

Never use CONFIG_CPU_* to conditionally execute code only on certain
CPU types.  It's not consistently used like this everywhere but it's meant
to select optimization for a particular processor type.

For example on the Malta, a system that's notorious for supporting
particularly man processor types CONFIG_CPU_R4X00 might be set but the
actual core core be a lowly R4Kc or the latest 666Kfc MIPS64 R6 core from
hell.

CONFIG_SYS_HAS_CPU_* only expresses that a system _might_ be equipped
with a particular processor, that is support for this core should be
compiled in.  An arbitrary number of CONFIG_SYS_HAS_CPU_* may be enabled.

If you really need to test for a processor at runtime, use current_cpu_type().
Typically that's done in a switch and there are plenty of example scattered
around arch/mips/mm/.

It's possible to replace the current current_cpu_type() with a platform-
specific version that looks (example for Cavium Octeon) like:

static inline int __pure current_cpu_type(void)
{
	const int cpu_type = current_cpu_data.cputype;

	switch (cpu_type) {
	case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON:
	case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON_PLUS:
	case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON2:
		break;

	default:
		unreachable();
	}

	return cpu_type;
}

Modern GCC will then notice that current_cpu_type() may only ever return
the values CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON, CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON_PLUS and CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON2
and will discard all the non-Octeon code from a switch construct like this:

	switch (current_cpu_type()) {
	case CPU_R2000:
	case CPU_R3000:
		...
		break;

	case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON:
	case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON_PLUS:
	case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON2:
		break;
	}

Result: sane, clean code.

  Ralf

MIPS: Fix TLBR-use hazards for R2 cores in the TLB reload handlers

MIPS R2 documents state that an execution hazard barrier is needed
after a TLBR before reading EntryLo.

Original patch by Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
---
 arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
index bfff8fe..34c882c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
@@ -1932,6 +1932,19 @@ static void __cpuinit build_r4000_tlb_load_handler(void)
 		uasm_i_nop(&p);
 
 		uasm_i_tlbr(&p);
+
+		switch (current_cpu_type()) {
+		default:
+			if (cpu_has_mips_r2) {
+				uasm_i_ehb(&p);
+
+		case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON:
+		case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON_PLUS:
+		case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON2:
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+
 		/* Examine  entrylo 0 or 1 based on ptr. */
 		if (use_bbit_insns()) {
 			uasm_i_bbit0(&p, wr.r2, ilog2(sizeof(pte_t)), 8);
@@ -1986,6 +1999,19 @@ static void __cpuinit build_r4000_tlb_load_handler(void)
 		uasm_i_nop(&p);
 
 		uasm_i_tlbr(&p);
+
+		switch (current_cpu_type()) {
+		default:
+			if (cpu_has_mips_r2) {
+				uasm_i_ehb(&p);
+
+		case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON:
+		case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON_PLUS:
+		case CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON2:
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+
 		/* Examine  entrylo 0 or 1 based on ptr. */
 		if (use_bbit_insns()) {
 			uasm_i_bbit0(&p, wr.r2, ilog2(sizeof(pte_t)), 8);

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-20  5:57 [PATCH] MIPS: Add missing hazard barrier in TLB load handler Steven J. Hill
2013-06-20 11:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2013-06-20 11:13 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-20 13:32   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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