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authorMohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>2007-03-21 11:21:32 +0530
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-03-22 15:01:43 +1100
commitb4aea36b7956eeebfc56314ce0944db1441255ce (patch)
treea0c84f25e1f5a2ef0af624871e8f892654fd79a4 /include/asm-powerpc/hvcall.h
parentf144e7c7272bf527c380bffaa5e789dc28a09d8d (diff)
[POWERPC] Avoid hypervisor statistics calculation in real mode
kexec invokes plpar_hcall hypervisor call in real mode. plpar_hcall refers to per cpu variables for accounting hypervisor statistics. These variables may not be in the RMO region, so accesses to them in real mode may result in a data storage exception. This fixes this problem by using a new plpar_hcall_raw function which does not update the hypervisor call statistics. Thanks to Anton for suggesting this idea. Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/hvcall.h b/include/asm-powerpc/hvcall.h
index 60977806d2f..62efd9d7a43 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/hvcall.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/hvcall.h
@@ -237,6 +237,20 @@ long plpar_hcall_norets(unsigned long opcode, ...);
long plpar_hcall(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
/**
+ * plpar_hcall_raw: - Make a hypervisor call without calculating hcall stats
+ * @opcode: The hypervisor call to make.
+ * @retbuf: Buffer to store up to 4 return arguments in.
+ *
+ * This call supports up to 6 arguments and 4 return arguments. Use
+ * PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE to size the return argument buffer.
+ *
+ * Used when phyp interface needs to be called in real mode. Similar to
+ * plpar_hcall, but plpar_hcall_raw works in real mode and does not
+ * calculate hypervisor call statistics.
+ */
+long plpar_hcall_raw(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
+
+/**
* plpar_hcall9: - Make a pseries hypervisor call with up to 9 return arguments
* @opcode: The hypervisor call to make.
* @retbuf: Buffer to store up to 9 return arguments in.