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Commit 3c881e05 authored by Wilken Gottwalt's avatar Wilken Gottwalt Committed by Bjorn Andersson
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hwspinlock: add sun6i hardware spinlock support

Adds the sun6i_hwspinlock driver for the hardware spinlock unit found in
most of the sun6i compatible SoCs.

This unit provides at least 32 spinlocks in hardware. The implementation
supports 32, 64, 128 or 256 32bit registers. A lock can be taken by
reading a register and released by writing a 0 to it. This driver
supports all 4 spinlock setups, but for now only the first setup (32
locks) seem to exist in available devices. This spinlock unit is shared
between all ARM cores and the embedded companion core. All of them can
take/release a lock with a single cycle operation. It can be used to
sync access to devices shared by the ARM cores and the companion core.

There are two ways to check if a lock is taken. The first way is to read
a lock. If a 0 is returned, the lock was free and is taken now. If an 1
is returned, the caller has to try again. Which means the lock is taken.
The second way is to read a 32bit wide status register where every bit
represents one...
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