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Leif Lindholm 64d2dc384e ARM: 6396/1: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors
The SWP instruction was deprecated in the ARMv6 architecture,
superseded by the LDREX/STREX family of instructions for
load-linked/store-conditional operations. The ARMv7 multiprocessing
extensions mandate that SWP/SWPB instructions are treated as undefined
from reset, with the ability to enable them through the System Control
Register SW bit.

This patch adds the alternative solution to emulate the SWP and SWPB
instructions using LDREX/STREX sequences, and log statistics to
/proc/cpu/swp_emulation. To correctly deal with copy-on-write, it also
modifies cpu_v7_set_pte_ext to change the mappings to priviliged RO when
user RO.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-11-04 15:45:24 +00:00

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00-INDEX
- this file
Booting
- requirements for booting
Interrupts
- ARM Interrupt subsystem documentation
IXP2000
- Release Notes for Linux on Intel's IXP2000 Network Processor
msm
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Netwinder
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Porting
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Setup
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README
- General ARM documentation
SA1100/
- SA1100 documentation
Samsung-S3C24XX
- S3C24XX ARM Linux Overview
Sharp-LH
- Linux on Sharp LH79524 and LH7A40X System On a Chip (SOC)
SPEAr
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VFP/
- Release notes for Linux Kernel Vector Floating Point support code
empeg/
- Ltd's Empeg MP3 Car Audio Player
mem_alignment
- alignment abort handler documentation
memory.txt
- description of the virtual memory layout
nwfpe/
- NWFPE floating point emulator documentation
swp_emulation
- SWP/SWPB emulation handler/logging description