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      ARC: SMP support · 41195d23
      Vineet Gupta 提交于
      ARC common code to enable a SMP system + ISS provided SMP extensions.
      
      ARC700 natively lacks SMP support, hence some of the core features are
      are only enabled if SoCs have the necessary h/w pixie-dust. This
      includes:
      -Inter Processor Interrupts (IPI)
      -Cache coherency
      -load-locked/store-conditional
      ...
      
      The low level exception handling would be completely broken in SMP
      because we don't have hardware assisted stack switching. Thus a fair bit
      of this code is repurposing the MMU_SCRATCH reg for event handler
      prologues to keep them re-entrant.
      
      Many thanks to Rajeshwar Ranga for his initial "major" contributions to
      SMP Port (back in 2008), and to Noam Camus and Gilad Ben-Yossef for help
      with resurrecting that in 3.2 kernel (2012).
      
      Note that this platform code is again singleton design pattern - so
      multiple SMP platforms won't build at the moment - this deficiency is
      addressed in subsequent patches within this series.
      Signed-off-by: NVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com>
      Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
      Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
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