linux/arch
Will Deacon 4b88316083 ARM: mm: avoid taking ASID spinlock on fastpath
When scheduling a new mm, we take a spinlock so that we can:

  1. Safely allocate a new ASID, if required
  2. Update our active_asids field without worrying about parallel
     updates to reserved_asids
  3. Ensure that we flush our local TLB, if required

However, this has the nasty affect of serialising context-switch across
all CPUs in the system. The usual (fast) case is where the next mm has
a valid ASID for the current generation. In such a scenario, we can
avoid taking the lock and instead use atomic64_xchg to update the
active_asids variable for the current CPU. If a rollover occurs on
another CPU (which would take the lock), when copying the active_asids
into the reserved_asids another atomic64_xchg is used to replace each
active_asids with 0. The fast path can then detect this case and fall
back to spinning on the lock.

Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2012-11-05 16:25:25 +00:00
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alpha alpha: separate thread-synchronous flags 2012-10-24 05:16:45 +03:00
arm ARM: mm: avoid taking ASID spinlock on fastpath 2012-11-05 16:25:25 +00:00
arm64 arm64: fix alignment padding in assembly code 2012-10-20 11:12:01 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
frv frv: fix the broken preempt 2012-11-02 12:08:25 -04:00
h8300 Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
hexagon Hexagon: Copyright marking changes 2012-10-18 17:07:21 -05:00
ia64 UAPI: Make arch/ia64/include/asm/kvm_para.h generic 2012-10-18 17:27:43 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
m68k m68k: Wire up kcmp 2012-10-19 17:49:37 +02:00
microblaze Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-10-18 11:49:39 -07:00
mn10300 UAPI: Make arch/mn10300/include/uapi/asm/setup.h non-empty 2012-10-17 12:32:35 +01:00
openrisc Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
parisc UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/parisc/include/asm 2012-10-16 21:28:05 +01:00
powerpc cpuidle/powerpc: Fix snooze state problem in the cpuidle design on pseries. 2012-10-18 10:57:25 +11:00
s390 s390,uapi: do not use uapi/asm-generic/kvm_para.h 2012-10-19 11:07:18 +02:00
score Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
sh UAPI: Make arch/sh/include/uapi/asm/hw_breakpoint.h non-empty 2012-10-17 12:32:35 +01:00
sparc UAPI fixes 2012-10-17 2012-10-17 13:40:22 -07:00
tile arch/tile: avoid build warnings from duplicate ELF_R_xxx #defines 2012-10-23 10:22:48 -04:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
x86 Bug-fixes: 2012-11-02 13:26:11 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: switch to generic sys_execve() 2012-10-25 15:00:44 -07:00
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