Commit 4b3e975e authored Jun 21, 2007 by Ralf Baechle

[MIPS] Fix scheduling latency issue on 24K, 34K and 74K cores



The idle loop goes to sleep using the WAIT instruction if !need_resched().
This has is suffering from from a race condition that if if just after
need_resched has returned 0 an interrupt might set TIF_NEED_RESCHED but
we've just completed the test so go to sleep anyway.  This would be
trivial to fix by just disabling interrupts during that sequence as in:

        local_irq_disable();
        if (!need_resched())
                __asm__("wait");
        local_irq_enable();

but the processor architecture leaves it undefined if a processor calling
WAIT with interrupts disabled will ever restart its pipeline and indeed
some processors have made use of the freedom provided by the architecture
definition.  This has been resolved and the Config7.WII bit indicates that
the use of WAIT is safe on 24K, 24KE and 34K cores.  It also is safe on
74K starting revision 2.1.0 so enable the use of WAIT with interrupts
disabled for 74K based on a c0_prid of at least that.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

parent fde97822

arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c

+13 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -137,13 +137,24 @@ static inline void check_wait(void)
		case CPU_4KEC:
		case CPU_4KSC:
		case CPU_5KC:
		case CPU_24K:
		case CPU_25KF:
		case CPU_PR4450:
		cpu_wait = r4k_wait;
		break;

		case CPU_24K:
		case CPU_34K:
		cpu_wait = r4k_wait;
		if (read_c0_config7() & MIPS_CONF7_WII)
		cpu_wait = r4k_wait_irqoff;
		break;

		case CPU_74K:
		case CPU_PR4450:
		cpu_wait = r4k_wait;
		if ((c->processor_id & 0xff) >= PRID_REV_ENCODE_332(2, 1, 0))
		cpu_wait = r4k_wait_irqoff;
		break;

		case CPU_TX49XX:
		cpu_wait = r4k_wait_irqoff;
		break;

include/asm-mips/mipsregs.h

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@
		#define MIPS_CONF3_LPA (_ULCAST_(1) << 7)
		#define MIPS_CONF3_DSP (_ULCAST_(1) << 10)

		#define MIPS_CONF7_WII (_ULCAST_(1) << 31)

		/*
		* Bits in the MIPS32/64 coprocessor 1 (FPU) revision register.
		*/

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