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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2013-08-06 16:04:13 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2013-08-13 16:04:10 -0400
commit2f9ac29eec71a696cb0dcc5fb82c0f8d4dac28c9 (patch)
treeee33ba7e452e8614130a811211eb2383a3133194 /arch/tile/kernel/proc.c
parentf10da5472c6907a3fbd6886224b36d21925ce47b (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kernel/proc.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/tile/kernel/proc.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/proc.c b/arch/tile/kernel/proc.c
index dafc447b512..681100c59fd 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/proc.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/proc.c
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ arch_initcall(proc_tile_init);
* Support /proc/sys/tile directory
*/
-#ifndef __tilegx__ /* FIXME: GX: no support for unaligned access yet */
static ctl_table unaligned_subtable[] = {
{
.procname = "enabled",
@@ -160,4 +159,3 @@ static int __init proc_sys_tile_init(void)
}
arch_initcall(proc_sys_tile_init);
-#endif