On 12/03/2015 10:50 PM, Li Zhong wrote:
This patch tries to enable cpu clock for powerpc64, the code is copied from mftb() in kernel source. The two instructions after mfspr are added in the kernel to solve an erratum on Cell and fsl booke CPUs. On those CPUs, 64 bits mftb is not atomic, so it is possible that the low order 32 bits are already reset to 0x00000000 but the high order bits are not yet incremented by one. Don't know how to tell whether it will be running on those CPUs or not, I just keep the above fix for all ppc64 CPUs. Even if we have some method to check whether we are on those CPUs or not at run time, I think the check won't cost less than the two added instructions. Maybe we could use the similar fix up code kernel uses to dynamically patch the instructions with nops if not needed. But that would add much more complexity.
Thanks, applied. I don't have any powerpc hw, so I'll depend on your testing for this.
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