MIPS: barrier: Add __SYNC() infrastructure
Introduce an asm/sync.h header which provides infrastructure that can be used to generate sync instructions of various types, and for various reasons. For example if we need a sync instruction that provides a full completion barrier but only on systems which have weak memory ordering, we can generate the appropriate assembly code using: __SYNC(full, weak_ordering) When the kernel is configured to run on systems with weak memory ordering (ie. CONFIG_WEAK_ORDERING is selected) we'll emit a sync instruction. When the kernel is configured to run on systems with strong memory ordering (ie. CONFIG_WEAK_ORDERING is not selected) we'll emit nothing. The caller doesn't need to know which happened - it simply says what it needs & when, with no concern for checking the kernel configuration. There are some scenarios in which we may want to emit code only when we *didn't* emit a sync instruction. For example, some Loongson3 CPUs suffer from a bug that requires us to emit a sync instruction prior to each ll instruction (enabled by CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3_WORKAROUNDS). In cases where this bug workaround is enabled, it's wasteful to then have more generic code emit another sync instruction to provide barriers we need in general. A __SYNC_ELSE() macro allows for this, providing an extra argument that contains code to be assembled only in cases where the sync instruction was not emitted. For example if we have a scenario in which we generally want to emit a release barrier but for affected Loongson3 configurations upgrade that to a full completion barrier, we can do that like so: __SYNC_ELSE(full, loongson3_war, __SYNC(rl, always)) The assembly generated by these macros can be used either as inline assembly or in assembly source files. Differing types of sync as provided by MIPSr6 are defined, but currently they all generate a full completion barrier except in kernels configured for Cavium Octeon systems. There the wmb sync-type is used, and rmb syncs are omitted, as has been the case since commit 6b07d38a ("MIPS: Octeon: Use optimized memory barrier primitives."). Using __SYNC() with the wmb or rmb types will abstract away the Octeon specific behavior and allow us to later clean up asm/barrier.h code that currently includes a plethora of #ifdef's. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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