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authorimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2013-07-07 16:12:22 +0000
committerimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2013-07-07 16:12:22 +0000
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Remove all the NOPs after SYNC. They aren't needed.
They originated in the original Octeon port. They weren't present, as far as I can tell, on the projects/mips branch until after this point. They were in the original Octeon port in code picked up from the vendor, who I've been able to find out trolling old email put them there to get around an SMP problem that most likely was fixed in other ways. NetBSD and Linux don't have these, except for some specific uses of SYNC on the alchemy parts (which we don't support, but even if we did it is only a specific case and would be specifically coded anyway). This is true of the current Linux code, as well as one old version I polled. I looked back at the old R12000, R8000, R6000, R4000, R4400 errata that I have, and could find no mention of SYNC needing NOPs for silicon bugs (although plenty of other cases where NOPs and other contortions were needed). An Google search turned up no old mailing list discussions on this on Linux, NetBSD or FreeBSD (except the disussion that kicked off these studies). I've test booted this on my Octeon Plus eval board and survived a buildworld. Adrian Chadd reports that this patch has no ill effects on the Ahteros platforms he tested it on. I conclude it is safe to just remove the NOPs. But added __MIPS_PLATFORM_SYNC_NOPS as a failsafe in case we find some platform where these are, in fact, required. Reviewed by: adrian@
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