linux/arch/arc/include/asm/processor.h, branch v3.9

ARC: SMP support

2013-02-15T17:46:02Z

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 Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga Cc: Noam Camus Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef

ARC: [optim] Cache "current" in Register r25

2013-02-15T17:45:58Z

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Process-creation/scheduling/idle-loop

2013-02-11T14:30:38Z

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta Cc: Al Viro Cc: Thomas Gleixner

ARC: Fundamental ARCH data-types/defines

2013-02-11T14:30:34Z

* L1_CACHE_SHIFT * PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_OFFSET * struct pt_regs, struct user_regs_struct * struct thread_struct, cpu_relax(), task_pt_regs(), start_thread(), ... * struct thread_info, THREAD_SIZE, INIT_THREAD_INFO(), TIF_*, ... * BUG() * ELF_* * Elf_* To disallow user-space visibility into some of the core kernel data-types such as struct pt_regs, #ifdef __KERNEL__ which also makes the UAPI header spit (further patch in the series) to NOT export it to asm/uapi/ptrace.h Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Al Viro Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann