Use register g6 for the per-CPU control of the current processor. The
register g6 is reserved for the operating system by the SPARC ABI. On
Linux register g6 is used for a similar purpose with the same method
since 1996.
The register g6 must be initialized during system startup and then must
remain unchanged.
Since the per-CPU control is used in all critical sections of the
operating system, this is a performance optimization for the operating
system core procedures. An additional benefit is that the low-level
context switch and interrupt processing code is now identical on non-SMP
and SMP configurations.
The registers g2 through g4 are reserved for applications. GCC uses
them as volatile registers by default. So they are treated like
volatile registers in RTEMS as well.
It is importeant to consistently apply the same handling for flushing within
level 2 and level 1 cache handling. In this case now both handling use clean and invalidate.
The baud rate of the altera cyclone-V U-Boot can not be changed at the
u-Boot console prompt. Thus we use the same baud rate as the U-Boot for
the BSP.
Clustered/partitioned scheduling helps to control the worst-case
latencies in the system. The goal is to reduce the amount of shared
state in the system and thus prevention of lock contention. Modern
multi-processor systems tend to have several layers of data and
instruction caches. With clustered/partitioned scheduling it is
possible to honour the cache topology of a system and thus avoid
expensive cache synchronization traffic.
We have clustered scheduling in case the set of processors of a system
is partitioned into non-empty pairwise-disjoint subsets. These subsets
are called clusters. Clusters with a cardinality of one are partitions.
Each cluster is owned by exactly one scheduler instance.
Add and use _CPU_SMP_Start_processor(). Add and use
_CPU_SMP_Finalize_initialization(). This makes most
_CPU_SMP_Initialize() functions a bit simpler since we can calculate the
minimum value of the count of processors requested by the application
configuration and the count of physically or virtually available
processors in the high-level code.
The CPU port has now the ability to signal a processor start failure.
With the support for clustered/partitioned scheduling the presence of
particular processors can be configured to be optional or mandatory.
There will be a fatal error only in case mandatory processors are not
present.
The CPU port may use a timeout to monitor the start of a processor.
Rename rtems_smp_get_current_processor() in
rtems_get_current_processor(). Make rtems_get_current_processor() a
function in uni-processor configurations to enable ABI compatibility
with SMP configurations.
Rename rtems_smp_get_processor_count() in rtems_get_processor_count().
Make rtems_get_processor_count() a function in uni-processor
configurations to enable ABI compatibility with SMP configurations.
