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    [IA64] Multiple outstanding ptc.g instruction support · 2046b94e
    Fenghua Yu authored
    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: default avatarFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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