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Back in 2005, Kyle McMartin removed the 16-byte alignment for ldcw semaphores on PA 2.0 machines (CONFIG_PA20). This broke spinlocks on pre PA8800 processors. The main symptom was random faults in mmap'd memory (e.g., gcc compilations, etc). Unfortunately, the errata for this ldcw change is lost. The issue is the 16-byte alignment required for ldcw semaphore instructions can only be reduced to natural alignment when the ldcw operation can be handled coherently in cache. Only PA8800 and PA8900 processors actually support doing the operation in cache. Aligning the spinlock dynamically adds two integer instructions to each spinlock. Tested on rp3440, c8000 and a500. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-parisc/6b332788-2227-127f-ba6d-55e99ecf4ed8@bell.net/T/#t Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-parisc/20050609050702.GB4641@roadwarrior.mcmartin.ca/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.