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    [IA64] hooks to wait for mmio writes to drain when migrating processes · e08e6c52
    Brent Casavant authored
    On SN2, MMIO writes which are issued from separate processors are not
    guaranteed to arrive in any particular order at the IO hardware.  When
    performing such writes from the kernel this is not a problem, as a
    kernel thread will not migrate to another CPU during execution, and
    mmiowb() calls can guarantee write ordering when control of the IO
    resource is allowed to move between threads.
    
    However, when MMIO writes can be performed from user space (e.g. DRM)
    there are no such guarantees and mechanisms, as the process may
    context-switch at any time, and may migrate to a different CPU as part
    of the switch.  For such programs/hardware to operate correctly, it is
    required that the MMIO writes from the old CPU be accepted by the IO
    hardware before subsequent writes from the new CPU can be issued.
    
    The following patch implements this behavior on SN2 by waiting for a
    Shub register to indicate that these writes have been accepted.  This
    is placed in the context switch-in path, and only performs the wait
    when the newly scheduled task changes CPUs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPrarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
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