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[SPARC64]: Avoid membar instructions in delay slots.
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:42:04 +0000 (15:42 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:42:04 +0000 (15:42 -0700)
commitb445e26cbf784cdba10f2b6c3e2cd3ee7bab360a
tree8c8c377a7e5cbf608d730ec45e091e4f2b826a82
parent020f46a39eb7b99a575b9f4d105fce2b142acdf1
[SPARC64]: Avoid membar instructions in delay slots.

In particular, avoid membar instructions in the delay
slot of a jmpl instruction.

UltraSPARC-I, II, IIi, and IIe have a bug, documented in
the UltraSPARC-IIi User's Manual, Appendix K, Erratum 51

The long and short of it is that if the IMU unit misses
on a branch or jmpl, and there is a store buffer synchronizing
membar in the delay slot, the chip can stop fetching instructions.

If interrupts are enabled or some other trap is enabled, the
chip will unwedge itself, but performance will suffer.

We already had a workaround for this bug in a few spots, but
it's better to have the entire tree sanitized for this rule.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
15 files changed:
arch/sparc64/kernel/entry.S
arch/sparc64/kernel/semaphore.c
arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S
arch/sparc64/lib/U1memcpy.S
arch/sparc64/lib/VISsave.S
arch/sparc64/lib/atomic.S
arch/sparc64/lib/bitops.S
arch/sparc64/lib/debuglocks.c
arch/sparc64/lib/dec_and_lock.S
arch/sparc64/lib/rwsem.S
arch/sparc64/mm/init.c
arch/sparc64/mm/ultra.S
include/asm-sparc64/rwsem.h
include/asm-sparc64/spinlock.h
include/asm-sparc64/spitfire.h