tree 0dbbdf17d64b521f2debcc8677368ceec8805d8c
parent e315c121a858499d84dc88c499046b9f10bb61ec
author Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> 1207332359 -0700
committer Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 1207332359 -0700

[IA64] Multiple outstanding ptc.g instruction support

According to SDM2.2, Itanium supports multiple outstanding ptc.g instructions.
But current kernel function ia64_global_tlb_purge() uses a spinlock to serialize
ptc.g instructions issued by multiple processors. This serialization might have
scalability issue on a big SMP machine where many processors could purge TLB
in parallel.

The patch fixes this problem by issuing multiple ptc.g instructions in
ia64_global_tlb_purge(). It also adds support for the "PALO" table to get
a platform view of the max number of outstanding ptc.g instructions (which
may be different from the processor view found from PAL_VM_SUMMARY).

PALO specification can be found at: http://www.dig64.org/home/DIG64_PALO_R1_0.pdf

spinaphore implementation by Matthew Wilcox.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>