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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-09-01 18:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-09-01 18:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | ceeec3dc375e3b0618f16b34efc56fe093918f8b (patch) | |
| tree | 2293d02721ee05131aaf1c60e4fba7e281585eec /arch/sparc64/lib/mb.S | |
| parent | fbff868db3a4cc6a89d51da9a6d49b26c29d04fb (diff) | |
| parent | e3ee3b78f83688a0ae4315e8be71b2eac559904a (diff) | |
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diff --git a/arch/sparc64/lib/mb.S b/arch/sparc64/lib/mb.S new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4004f74 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/sparc64/lib/mb.S @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +/* mb.S: Out of line memory barriers. + * + * Copyright (C) 2005 David S. Miller (davem@davemloft.net) + */ + + /* These are here in an effort to more fully work around + * Spitfire Errata #51. Essentially, if a memory barrier + * occurs soon after a mispredicted branch, the chip can stop + * executing instructions until a trap occurs. Therefore, if + * interrupts are disabled, the chip can hang forever. + * + * It used to be believed that the memory barrier had to be + * right in the delay slot, but a case has been traced + * recently wherein the memory barrier was one instruction + * after the branch delay slot and the chip still hung. The + * offending sequence was the following in sym_wakeup_done() + * of the sym53c8xx_2 driver: + * + * call sym_ccb_from_dsa, 0 + * movge %icc, 0, %l0 + * brz,pn %o0, .LL1303 + * mov %o0, %l2 + * membar #LoadLoad + * + * The branch has to be mispredicted for the bug to occur. + * Therefore, we put the memory barrier explicitly into a + * "branch always, predicted taken" delay slot to avoid the + * problem case. + */ + + .text + +99: retl + nop + + .globl mb +mb: ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #LoadLoad | #LoadStore | #StoreStore | #StoreLoad + .size mb, .-mb + + .globl rmb +rmb: ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #LoadLoad + .size rmb, .-rmb + + .globl wmb +wmb: ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #StoreStore + .size wmb, .-wmb + + .globl membar_storeload +membar_storeload: + ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #StoreLoad + .size membar_storeload, .-membar_storeload + + .globl membar_storeload_storestore +membar_storeload_storestore: + ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #StoreLoad | #StoreStore + .size membar_storeload_storestore, .-membar_storeload_storestore + + .globl membar_storeload_loadload +membar_storeload_loadload: + ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #StoreLoad | #LoadLoad + .size membar_storeload_loadload, .-membar_storeload_loadload + + .globl membar_storestore_loadstore +membar_storestore_loadstore: + ba,pt %xcc, 99b + membar #StoreStore | #LoadStore + .size membar_storestore_loadstore, .-membar_storestore_loadstore |
