From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Workaround the Out-of-order Issue of Loongson-2F
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:12:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1268153722.git.wuzhangjin@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
As the Chapter 15: "Errata: Issue of Out-of-order in loongson"[1] shows, to
workaround the Issue of Loongson-2F,We need to do:
o When switching from user model to kernel model, you should flush the branch
target history such as BTB and RAS.
o Doing some tricks to the indirect branch target to make sure that the
indirect branch target can not be in the I/O region.
This patchset applied the above methods and for the binutils patch[3] have been
merged into binutils 2.20.1, so, it's time to upstream this patchset now.
without this patch, the machines will hang when the instruction sequence hit
the Out-of-order Issue of Loongson-2F, therefore, this patchset is very urgent
for both 2.6.33 and 2.6.34.
[1] Chinese Version: http://www.loongson.cn/uploadfile/file/20080821113149.pdf
[2] English Version of Chapter 15:
http://groups.google.com.hk/group/loongson-dev/msg/e0d2e220958f10a6?dmode=source
[3] http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-11/msg00387.html
Regards,
Wu Zhangjin
Wu Zhangjin (3):
Loongson-2F: Flush the branch target history such as BTB and RAS
Loongson-2F: Enable fixups of binutils 2.20.1
Loongson-2F: Fixup of problems introduced by -mfix-loongson2f-jump of
binutils 2.20.1
arch/mips/Makefile | 4 +++-
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/mips/loongson/common/reset.c | 12 +++++++++++-
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 17:12 Wu Zhangjin [this message]
2010-03-09 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] Loongson-2F: Flush the branch target history such as BTB and RAS Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-10 10:44 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2010-03-10 15:24 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-11 3:27 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-03-11 3:35 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-11 9:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-03-13 3:52 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-14 23:42 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-03-09 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] Loongson-2F: Enable fixups of binutils 2.20.1 Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-09 17:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] Loongson-2F: Fixup of problems introduced by -mfix-loongson2f-jump " Wu Zhangjin
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