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Vineet Gupta
41195d236e ARC: SMP support
ARC common code to enable a SMP system + ISS provided SMP extensions.

ARC700 natively lacks SMP support, hence some of the core features are
are only enabled if SoCs have the necessary h/w pixie-dust. This
includes:
-Inter Processor Interrupts (IPI)
-Cache coherency
-load-locked/store-conditional
...

The low level exception handling would be completely broken in SMP
because we don't have hardware assisted stack switching. Thus a fair bit
of this code is repurposing the MMU_SCRATCH reg for event handler
prologues to keep them re-entrant.

Many thanks to Rajeshwar Ranga for his initial "major" contributions to
SMP Port (back in 2008), and to Noam Camus and Gilad Ben-Yossef for help
with resurrecting that in 3.2 kernel (2012).

Note that this platform code is again singleton design pattern - so
multiple SMP platforms won't build at the moment - this deficiency is
addressed in subsequent patches within this series.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
2013-02-15 23:16:02 +05:30
Vineet Gupta
769bc1fd7b ARC: OProfile support
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
2013-02-15 23:16:00 +05:30
Vineet Gupta
080c37473e ARC: [optim] Cache "current" in Register r25
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-02-15 23:15:58 +05:30
Vineet Gupta
999159a538 ARC: [DeviceTree] Basic support
This is minimal infrastructure needed for devicetree work.
It uses an a sample "skeleton" devicetree - embedded in kernel image -
to print the board, manufacturer by parsing the top-level "compatible"
string.

As of now we don't need any additional "board" specific "machine_desc".

TODO: support interpreting the command line as boot-loader passed dtb

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
2013-02-15 23:15:55 +05:30
Vineet Gupta
cfdbc2e16e ARC: Build system: Makefiles, Kconfig, Linker script
Arnd in his review pointed out that arch Kconfig organisation has several
deficiencies:

* Build time entries for things which can be runtime extracted from DT
  (e.g. SDRAM size, core clk frequency..)
* Not multi-platform-image-build friendly (choice .. endchoice constructs)
* cpu variants support (750/770) is exclusive.

The first 2 have been fixed in subsequent patches.
Due to the nature of the 750 and 770, it is not possible to build for
both together, w/o special runtime glue code which would hurt
performance.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2013-02-11 20:00:25 +05:30