s390: add support for transactional memory

Allow user-space processes to use transactional execution (TX).
If the TX facility is available user space programs can use
transactions for fine-grained serialization based on the data
objects that are referenced during a transaction. This is
useful for lockless data structures and speculative compiler
optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Martin Schwidefsky
2012-07-31 11:03:04 +02:00
parent e4b8b3f33f
commit d35339a42d
14 changed files with 151 additions and 21 deletions

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@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ extern unsigned int addressing_mode;
#define MACHINE_FLAG_LPAR (1UL << 12)
#define MACHINE_FLAG_SPP (1UL << 13)
#define MACHINE_FLAG_TOPOLOGY (1UL << 14)
#define MACHINE_FLAG_TE (1UL << 15)
#define MACHINE_IS_VM (S390_lowcore.machine_flags & MACHINE_FLAG_VM)
#define MACHINE_IS_KVM (S390_lowcore.machine_flags & MACHINE_FLAG_KVM)
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ extern unsigned int addressing_mode;
#define MACHINE_HAS_PFMF (0)
#define MACHINE_HAS_SPP (0)
#define MACHINE_HAS_TOPOLOGY (0)
#define MACHINE_HAS_TE (0)
#else /* CONFIG_64BIT */
#define MACHINE_HAS_IEEE (1)
#define MACHINE_HAS_CSP (1)
@@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ extern unsigned int addressing_mode;
#define MACHINE_HAS_PFMF (S390_lowcore.machine_flags & MACHINE_FLAG_PFMF)
#define MACHINE_HAS_SPP (S390_lowcore.machine_flags & MACHINE_FLAG_SPP)
#define MACHINE_HAS_TOPOLOGY (S390_lowcore.machine_flags & MACHINE_FLAG_TOPOLOGY)
#define MACHINE_HAS_TE (S390_lowcore.machine_flags & MACHINE_FLAG_TE)
#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
#define ZFCPDUMP_HSA_SIZE (32UL<<20)