- 30 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Nicolas Pitre 提交于
Patch from Nicolas Pitre This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM. In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation nor special system call. This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty. The problematic and performance critical operations are performed through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space at a fixed address in kernel memory. Those fixed entry points are within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that location anyway. This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments. And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant overhead to such minimalistic operations. The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number. This is done for two reasons: 1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the NPTL work is still progressing). 2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is present or not. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 26 4月, 2005 4 次提交
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由 Russell King 提交于
Move common includes to entry-header, and file specific includes to the relevant file. Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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由 Russell King 提交于
SVC_MODE reflects the MODE_SVC definition in asm/ptrace.h. Use the asm/ptrace.h definition instead, and remove SVC_MODE. Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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由 Russell King 提交于
Since we do not require a register for these operations, we can remove this unnecessary argument. Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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由 Russell King 提交于
Convert the trivial vector entry initialisation code to C code. Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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