From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi, Ralf
Is that possible to apply this patchset for both 2.6.33(the stable release) and
2.6.34? then we can get a not broken support for loongson-2f with the
options(-mfix-loongson2f-nop, -mfix-loongson2f-jump) provided by the latest
binutils (>=2.20.1).
Thanks & Regards,
Wu Zhangjin
-------
Changes:
v2->v3:
o Herein, RAS is short for Return Address Stack not Row Address Strobe, at
the same time, the "model" in the translation of Chapter 15 should be "mode".
(feedback from Shinya Kuribayashi)
v1->v2:
o Cleanup some comments and align some instructions.
----
As the Chapter 15: "Errata: Issue of Out-of-order in loongson"[1] shows, to
workaround the Issue of Loongson-2F，We need to do:
o When switching from user mode to kernel mode, you should flush the branch
target history such as BTB and RAS.
o Doing some tricks to the indirect branch target to make sure that the
indirect branch target can not be in the I/O region.
This patchset applied the above methods and for the binutils patch[3] have been
merged into binutils 2.20.1, so, it's time to upstream this patchset now.
without this patch, the machines will hang when the instruction sequence hit
the Out-of-order Issue of Loongson-2F, therefore, this patchset is very urgent
for both 2.6.33 and 2.6.34.
[1] Chinese Version: http://www.loongson.cn/uploadfile/file/20080821113149.pdf
[2] English Version of Chapter 15:
http://groups.google.com.hk/group/loongson-dev/msg/e0d2e220958f10a6?dmode=source
[3] http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-11/msg00387.html
Regards,
Wu Zhangjin
Wu Zhangjin (3):
Loongson-2F: Flush the branch target history such as BTB and RAS
Loongson-2F: Enable fixups of binutils 2.20.1
Loongson-2F: Fixup of problems introduced by -mfix-loongson2f-jump of
binutils 2.20.1
arch/mips/Makefile | 4 +++-
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/mips/loongson/common/reset.c | 11 ++++++++++-
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
