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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David S. Miller
74bf4312ff [SPARC64]: Move away from virtual page tables, part 1.
We now use the TSB hardware assist features of the UltraSPARC
MMUs.

SMP is currently knowingly broken, we need to find another place
to store the per-cpu base pointers.  We hid them away in the TSB
base register, and that obviously will not work any more :-)

Another known broken case is non-8KB base page size.

Also noticed that flush_tlb_all() is not referenced anywhere, only
the internal __flush_tlb_all() (local cpu only) is used by the
sparc64 port, so we can get rid of flush_tlb_all().

The kernel gets it's own 8KB TSB (swapper_tsb) and each address space
gets it's own private 8K TSB.  Later we can add code to dynamically
increase the size of per-process TSB as the RSS grows.  An 8KB TSB is
good enough for up to about a 4MB RSS, after which the TSB starts to
incur many capacity and conflict misses.

We even accumulate OBP translations into the kernel TSB.

Another area for refinement is large page size support.  We could use
a secondary address space TSB to handle those.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:13 -08:00
David S. Miller
2d7d5f0511 [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.
This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support,
which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups.

The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should
clean it up some day.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 02:42:49 -08:00
David S. Miller
ba6399334d [SPARC64]: Fix userland FPU state corruption.
We need to use stricter memory barriers around the block
load and store instructions we use to save and restore the
FPU register file.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-07 13:30:49 -07:00
David S. Miller
0835ae0f27 [SPARC64]: Replace cheetah+ code patching with variables.
Instead of code patching to handle the page size fields in
the context registers, just use variables from which we get
the proper values.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-04 15:23:20 -07:00
David S. Miller
d7ce78fd9a [SPARC64]: Eliminate irq_cpustat_t.
We can put the __softirq_pending mask in the cpudata,
no need for the silly NR_CPUS array in kernel/softirq.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 22:46:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00