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Haavard Skinnemoen
13b54a5052 [AVR32] Enable debugging only when needed
Keep track of processes being debugged (including the kernel itself)
and turn the OCD system on and off as appropriate. Since enabling
debugging turns off some optimizations in the CPU core, this fixes the
issue that enabling KProbes support or simply running a program under
gdbserver will reduce system performance significantly until the next
reboot.

The CPU performance will still be reduced for all processes while a
process is being debugged, but this is a lot better than reducing the
performance forever.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-01-25 08:31:39 +01:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
2507bc1338 [AVR32] Follow the rules when dealing with the OCD system
The current debug trap handling code does a number of things that are
illegal according to the AVR32 Architecture manual. Most importantly,
it may try to schedule from Debug Mode, thus clearing the D bit, which
can lead to "undefined behaviour".

It seems like this works in most cases, but several people have
observed somewhat unstable behaviour when debugging programs,
including soft lockups. So there's definitely something which is not
right with the existing code.

The new code will never schedule from Debug mode, it will always exit
Debug mode with a "retd" instruction, and if something not running in
Debug mode needs to do something debug-related (like doing a single
step), it will enter debug mode through a "breakpoint" instruction.
The monitor code will then return directly to user space, bypassing
its own saved registers if necessary (since we don't actually care
about the trapped context, only the one that came before.)

This adds three instructions to the common exception handling code,
including one branch. It does not touch super-hot paths like the TLB
miss handler.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-12-07 14:54:46 +01:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
702f22b306 [AVR32] Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK to the work masks
We really need to check TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK before returning to
userspace. The existing code does not necessarily do this.

Define the work masks as a bitwise OR of the respective flags instead
of a hardcoded hex value to make it easier to spot errors like this in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-12-07 14:52:32 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
a583f1b542 remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag
Remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for all processor architectures.  The
flag was not used excecpt on IA-64 where the patch replaces it with
TIF_PERFMON_WORK.

Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
19b7ce8bad [AVR32] Put cpu in sleep 0 when idle.
This patch puts the CPU in sleep 0 when doing nothing, idle. This will
turn of the CPU clock and thus save power. The CPU is waken again when
an interrupt occurs.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-04-27 13:44:12 +02:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
5f97f7f940 [PATCH] avr32 architecture
This adds support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture as well as the AT32AP7000
CPU and the AT32STK1000 development board.

AVR32 is a new high-performance 32-bit RISC microprocessor core, designed for
cost-sensitive embedded applications, with particular emphasis on low power
consumption and high code density.  The AVR32 architecture is not binary
compatible with earlier 8-bit AVR architectures.

The AVR32 architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the
AVR32 Architecture Manual, available from

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32000.pdf

The Atmel AT32AP7000 is the first CPU implementing the AVR32 architecture.  It
features a 7-stage pipeline, 16KB instruction and data caches and a full
Memory Management Unit.  It also comes with a large set of integrated
peripherals, many of which are shared with the AT91 ARM-based controllers from
Atmel.

Full data sheet is available from

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32003.pdf

while the CPU core implementation including caches and MMU is documented by
the AVR32 AP Technical Reference, available from

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32001.pdf

Information about the AT32STK1000 development board can be found at

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3918

including a BSP CD image with an earlier version of this patch, development
tools (binaries and source/patches) and a root filesystem image suitable for
booting from SD card.

Alternatively, there's a preliminary "getting started" guide available at
http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GettingStarted which provides links
to the sources and patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling
environment for avr32-linux.

This patch, as well as the other patches included with the BSP and the
toolchain patches, is actively supported by Atmel Corporation.

[dmccr@us.ibm.com: Fix more pxx_page macro locations]
[bunk@stusta.de: fix `make defconfig']
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:54 -07:00