Re: [PATCH 8/25] powerpc: Improve support for 4xx indirect DCRs

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
powerpc: Improve support for 4xx indirect DCRs Accessing indirect DCRs is done via a pair of address/data DCRs. Such accesses are thus inherently racy, vs. interrupts, preemption and possibly SMP if 4xx SMP cores are ever used. This updates the mfdcri/mtdcri macros in dcr-native.h (which were so

Re: [PATCH 8/25] powerpc: Improve support for 4xx indirect DCRs

2007-12-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:00:06 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Accessing indirect DCRs is done via a pair of address/data DCRs. > > Such accesses are thus inherently racy, vs. interrupts, preemption > and possibly SMP if 4xx SMP cores are ever used. > > This updates the m