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Zhang Le
5d57c31e57 MIPS: Loongson 2 needs no hazard barriers.
Quoting from Loongson2FUserGuide.pdf:

5.22.1 Hazards
The processor detects most of the pipeline hazards in hardware, including
CP0 hazards and load hazards. No NOP instructions are required to correct
instruction sequences.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-05-14 13:50:26 +01:00
Manuel Lauss
2f794d099d MIPS: Alchemy: MIPS hazard workarounds are not required.
The Alchemy manuals state:

"All pipeline hazards and dependencies are enforced by hardware interlocks
 so that any sequence of instructions is guaranteed to execute correctly.
 Therefore, it is not necessary to pad legacy MIPS hazards (such as
 load delay slots and coprocessor accesses) with NOPs."

Run-tested on Au12x0, without any ill effects.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-03-30 14:49:46 +02:00
Shinya Kuribayashi
a644b2774d MIPS: NEC VR5500 processor support fixup
Current VR5500 processor support lacks of some functions which are
expected to be configured/synthesized on arch initialization.

Here're some VR5500A spec notes:

* All execution hazards are handled in hardware.

* Once VR5500A stops the operation of the pipeline by WAIT instruction,
  it could return from the standby mode only when either a reset, NMI
  request, or all enabled interrupts is/are detected.  In other words,
  if interrupts are disabled by Status.IE=0, it keeps in standby mode
  even when interrupts are internally asserted.

  Notes on WAIT: The operation of the processor is undefined if WAIT
  insn is in the branch delay slot.  The operation is also undefined
  if WAIT insn is executed when Status.EXL and Status.ERL are set to 1.

* VR5500A core only implements the Load prefetch.

With these changes, it boots fine.

Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-03-11 21:11:07 +01:00
David Daney
bd6d85c21a MIPS: For Cavium OCTEON handle hazards as per the R10000 handling.
For Cavium CPU, we treat the same as R10000, in that all hazards
are dealt with in hardware.

Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <Paul.Gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-01-11 09:57:21 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
384740dc49 MIPS: Move headfiles to new location below arch/mips/include
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:52 +01:00