From:   "Jayachandran C" <jchandra@broadcom.com>
To:     linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
cc:     "Jayachandran C" <jchandra@broadcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Use scratch registers on XLR/XLS/XLP
Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:11:34 +0530
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This set of patches enable the use of scratch registers on XLR/XLS and XLP
(cop0 reg 22, sel 0-7) to optimize the generated TLB handlers.

The current code assumes scratch is 31, which is fixed by the first patch.
The second patch fixes a minor issue in checking if scratch is allocated.
The third patch enables use of a scratch register when it is available
even on a 32-bit or non-r2 platform. The fourth patch is a cleanup to 
consolidate all the defines needed into one file, this patch does not
have any change in logic.

In the earlier scheme, if MIPS_PGD_C0_CONTEXT was defined, the Context
register or a scratch register would contain the current PGD, and the
Xcontext would contain the smp_processor_id shifted to index pointers.

In the new scheme, the behavior when MIPS_PGD_C0_CONTEXT is defined
remains the same.  But when it is not defined, we still try to allocate
a scratch register for the current pgd and the smp processor id remains
in Context.

There is also an additional change is to generate the
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd() function even when MIPS_PGD_C0_CONTEXT is not
defined.  This function will save the PGD in pgd_current[] and also in
the scratch register if one has been allocated.

Comments/testing welcome.

Thanks,
JC.

Changes in v3:
* Add patch 2 - fix up  check for a valid scratch register

Changes in v2:
* Update macros in thread-info.h, remove __ASSEMBLY__ part
* add ASM_CPUID_MFC0 and UASM_i_CPUID_MFC0 which allows us to remove
  a lot of conditional compilation.
* make c0_kscratch a inline function and remove global variable

Jayachandran C (4):
  MIPS: Allow platform specific scratch registers
  MIPS: Fixup check for invalid scratch register
  MIPS: mm: Use scratch for PGD when !CONFIG_MIPS_PGD_C0_CONTEXT
  MIPS: Move definition of SMP processor id register to header file

 arch/mips/include/asm/mmu_context.h |   22 ++---
 arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h  |   24 ++---
 arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h |   30 +++++-
 arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c        |    1 +
 arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c                |  186 +++++++++++++++++------------------
 5 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)

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