ARM: 6396/1: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors
authorLeif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com>
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:00:47 +0000 (18:00 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 4 Nov 2010 15:45:24 +0000 (15:45 +0000)
commit64d2dc384e41e2b7acead6804593ddaaf8aad8e1
tree07f6e34981bd4a6642cdffb546b32a2a973aec5d
parent247055aa21ffef1c49dd64710d5e94c2aee19b58
ARM: 6396/1: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors

The SWP instruction was deprecated in the ARMv6 architecture,
superseded by the LDREX/STREX family of instructions for
load-linked/store-conditional operations. The ARMv7 multiprocessing
extensions mandate that SWP/SWPB instructions are treated as undefined
from reset, with the ability to enable them through the System Control
Register SW bit.

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
modifies cpu_v7_set_pte_ext to change the mappings to priviliged RO when
user RO.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Documentation/arm/00-INDEX
Documentation/arm/swp_emulation [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S