powerpc: Add driver for Barrier Synchronization Register
authorSonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:45:11 +0000 (15:45 +1000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:24:55 +0000 (12:24 +1000)
commitfe9e8d53772b5ea9ccf8ea4e8f0f009a6885eb70
treedad2ae7dfd7726794dd6eb3444bf0c99e582c50c
parentb3fcaaa8a6359e9ed623ed4c1d2d48c79eed4648
powerpc: Add driver for Barrier Synchronization Register

Adds a character driver for BSR support on IBM POWER systems including
Power5 and Power6.  The BSR is an optional processor facility not currently
implemented by any other processors.  It's primary purpose is fast large SMP
synchronization.  More details on the BSR are in comments to the code which
follows.  This patch adds BSR driver to pseries_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig
drivers/char/Kconfig
drivers/char/Makefile
drivers/char/bsr.c [new file with mode: 0644]