Add SMP support for metag. This allows Linux to take control of multiple
hardware threads on a single Meta core, treating them as separate Linux
CPUs.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Add metag system call and gateway page interfaces. The metag
architecture port uses the generic system call numbers from
asm-generic/unistd.h, as well as a user gateway page mapped at
0x6ffff000 which contains fast atomic primitives (depending on SMP) and
a fast method of accessing TLS data.
System calls use the SWITCH instruction with the immediate 0x440001 to
signal a system call.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Meta core internal interrupts (from HWSTATMETA and friends) are vectored
onto the TR1 core trigger for the current thread. This is demultiplexed
in irq-metag.c to individual Linux IRQs for each internal interrupt.
External SoC interrupts (from HWSTATEXT and friends) are vectored onto
the TR2 core trigger for the current thread. This is demultiplexed in
irq-metag-ext.c to individual Linux IRQs for each external SoC interrupt.
The external irqchip has devicetree bindings for configuring the number
of irq banks and the type of masking available.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Dom Cobley <popcornmix@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Add trap code for metag. At the lowest level Meta traps (and return from
interrupt instruction - RTI) simply swap the PC and PCX registers and
optionally toggle the interrupt status bit (ISTAT). Low level TBX code
in tbipcx.S handles the core context save, determine the TBX signal
number based on the core trigger that fired (using the TXSTATI status
register), and call TBX signal handlers (mostly in traps.c) via a vector
table.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add time keeping code for metag. Meta hardware threads have 2 timers.
The background timer (TXTIMER) is used as a free-running time base, and
the interrupt timer (TXTIMERI) is used for the timer interrupt. Both
counters traditionally count at approximately 1MHz.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The ptrace interface for metag provides access to some core register
sets using the PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET operations. The
details of the internal context structures is abstracted into user API
structures to both ease use and allow flexibility to change the internal
context layouts. Copyin and copyout functions for these register sets
are exposed to allow signal handling code to use them to copy to and
from the signal context.
struct user_gp_regs (NT_PRSTATUS) provides access to the core general
purpose register context.
struct user_cb_regs (NT_METAG_CBUF) provides access to the TXCATCH*
registers which contains information abuot a memory fault, unaligned
access error or watchpoint. This can be modified to alter the way the
fault is replayed on resume ("catch replay"), or to prevent the replay
taking place.
struct user_rp_state (NT_METAG_RPIPE) provides access to the state of
the Meta read pipeline which can be used to hide memory latencies in
hand optimised data loops.
Extended DSP register state, DSP RAM, and hardware breakpoint registers
aren't yet exposed through ptrace.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add boot code for metag. Due to the multi-threaded nature of Meta it is
not uncommon for an RTOS or bare metal application to be started on
other hardware threads by the bootloader. Since there is a single MMU
switch which affects all threads, the MMU is traditionally configured by
the bootloader prior to starting Linux. The bootloader passes a
structure to Linux which among other things contains information about
memory regions which have been mapped. Linux then assumes control of the
local heap memory region.
A kernel arguments string pointer or a flattened device tree pointer can
be provided in the third argument.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
