linux/arch
Chris Metcalf 2f9ac29eec tile: fast-path unaligned memory access for tilegx
This change enables unaligned userspace memory access via a kernel
fast path on tilegx.  The kernel tracks user PC/instruction pairs
per-thread using a direct-mapped cache in userspace.  The cache
maps those PC/instruction pairs to JIT'ed instruction sequences that
load or store using byte-wide load store intructions and then
synthesize 2-, 4- or 8-byte load or store results.  Once an
instruction has been seen to generate an unaligned access once,
subsequent hits on that instruction typically require overhead
of only around 50 cycles if cache and TLB is hot.

We support the prctl() PR_GET_UNALIGN / PR_SET_UNALIGN sys call to
enable or disable unaligned fixups on a per-process basis.

To do this we pull some of the tilepro unaligned support out of the
single_step.c file; tilepro uses instruction disassembly for both
single-step and unaligned access support.  Since tilegx actually has
hardware singlestep support, though, it's cleaner to keep the tilegx
unaligned access code in a separate file.  While we're at it,
properly rename the tilepro-specific types, etc., to have tilepro
suffixes instead of generic tile suffixes.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2013-08-13 16:04:10 -04:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-07-14 11:42:26 -07:00
arc Couple of Platform updates (Device Tree files primarily) given that the 2013-07-10 10:11:26 -07:00
arm ARM: SoC fixes for 3.11-rc 2013-07-13 15:00:26 -07:00
arm64 Merge tag 'kvm-3.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2013-07-10 18:17:41 -07:00
avr32 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
blackfin blackfin updates for Linux 3.11 2013-07-10 10:12:58 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) 2013-07-03 17:12:13 -07:00
cris net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
frv net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
h8300 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
hexagon mm/hexagon: prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init() 2013-07-03 16:07:36 -07:00
ia64 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
m32r net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) 2013-07-03 17:12:13 -07:00
metag arch/metag fixes for v3.11 2013-07-10 10:14:35 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2013-07-10 10:16:07 -07:00
mips Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-07-13 17:42:22 -07:00
mn10300 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
openrisc mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault handlers 2013-07-09 10:33:20 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-07-14 11:42:26 -07:00
powerpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-07-13 17:42:22 -07:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-07-13 17:42:22 -07:00
score mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault handlers 2013-07-09 10:33:20 -07:00
sh Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-07-09 18:24:39 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-07-14 11:42:26 -07:00
tile tile: fast-path unaligned memory access for tilegx 2013-08-13 16:04:10 -04:00
um mm/um: prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init() 2013-07-03 16:07:37 -07:00
unicore32 reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:29 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-13 15:35:47 -07:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-07-13 17:42:22 -07:00
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Kconfig mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00