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2006-06-21[POWERPC] Guard L3CR references with CPU_FTR_L3CR.Jon Loeliger
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-21[POWERPC] RTAS delay, fix module build breaksJohn Rose
Export both news RTAS delay functions, and change the scanlog module to use the new delay functions. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] ppc32: fix CPCI405 board supportMatthias Fuchs
Hi, this patch brings the CPCI405 board support up to date and fixes several outstanding issues: -add bios_fixup() -enable RTC only when CONFIG_GEN_RTC defined -corrected CompactPCI interrupt map -added cpci405_early_serial_map for correct UART clocking -removed unused code Matthias Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] make pmf irq_client functions safe against pmf interrupts coming inJohannes Berg
This fixes the pmf irq_client functions to be safe against pmf interrupts coming in while a client is registered/unregistered. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] check firmware state before suspendingDave C Boutcher
Currently the kernel blindly halts all the processors and calls the ibm,suspend-me rtas call. If the firmware is not in the correct state, we then re-start all the processors and return. It is much smarter to first check the firmware state, and only if it is waiting, call the ibm,suspend-me call. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Fix builtin command line interaction with firmwareAmos Waterland
It seems that prom_init's early_cmdline_parse is broken on at least Apple 970 xserves and IBM JS20 blades with SLOF. The firmware of these machines returns -1 and 1 respectively when getprop is called for the bootargs property of /chosen, causing Linux to ignore its builtin command line in favor of a null string. This patch makes Linux use its builtin command line if getprop returns an error or a null string. Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] update pmac32_defconfigAnton Blanchard
Some updates to the pmac32_defconfig to make it more useful: - Enable LSF (large single files) since we enable LBD (large block devices) - Enable IPSEC related options - Enable remaining raid/dm options as modules - Disable eth1394, I doubt any has that hardware and it has a nasty habit of auto loading first and skewing network device numbering - Enable dummy and tun as modules, always useful to have them around - Enable EHCI, no wonder my usb2 disk was so slow - Enable USB storage - Enable ext3 acls - Disable autofs and enable autofsv4 instead - Enable nfs v3/v4 client and server. Dont want to be left in the dark ages of pre v3 - Enable all crypto as modules, things like cryptsetup want some of them I havent enabled the BCM43xx, perhaps we should now? Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] system call micro optimisationAnton Blanchard
In the syscall path we currently have: crclr so mfcr r9 If we shift the crclr up we can avoid a stall on some CPUs. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Fix HV bit handling on non partitioned machinesAnton Blanchard
On non partitioned machines we currently set the HV bit in kernel space only. It turns out we are supposed to maintain the HV bit in both user and kernel space. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] cleanup dma_mapping_opsAnton Blanchard
For pseries IOMMU bypass I want to be able to fall back to the regular IOMMU ops. Do this by creating a dma_mapping_ops struct, and convert the others while at it. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] node local IOMMU tablesAnton Blanchard
Allocate IOMMU tables local to the relevant node. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] pcibus_to_node fixesAnton Blanchard
of_node_to_nid returns -1 if the associativity cannot be found. This means pcibus_to_cpumask has to be careful not to pass a negative index into node_to_cpumask. Since pcibus_to_node could be used a lot, and of_node_to_nid is slow (it walks a list doing strcmps), lets also cache the node in the pci_controller struct. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Update pseries defconfigAnton Blanchard
pseries defconfig updates: - Enable jsm and re-enable qlogic FC drivers as modules. - Enable ocfs2, autofs4 and fuse filesystems as modules. - Enable Kprobes. - Enable ebus, binfmt_misc, sas attrs, md5 reshape, hvc rtas backend and some infiniband options. - Finally disable debug options: DEBUG_MUTEXES and DEBUG_STACK_USAGE. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Remove stale 64bit on 32bit kernel codeAnton Blanchard
Remove some stale POWER3/POWER4/970 on 32bit kernel support. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Optimise some TOC usageAnton Blanchard
Micro-optimisation - add no-minimal-toc to some more arch/powerpc Makefiles. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] 64bit FPSCR supportAnton Blanchard
Forthcoming machines will extend the FPSCR to 64 bits. We already had a 64-bit save area for the FPSCR, but we need to use a new form of the mtfsf instruction. Fortunately this new form is decoded as an ordinary mtfsf by existing 64-bit processors. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Editable kernel command-line in zImage binary.mostrows@watson.ibm.com
zImage will set /chosen/bootargs (if it is otherwise empty) with the contents of a buffer in the section "__builtin_cmdline". This permits tools to edit zImage binaries to set the command-line eventually processed by vmlinux. -- Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] MSI abstractionJake Moilanen
Instead of trying to make PPC64 MSI fit in a Intel-centric MSI layer, a simple short-term solution is to hook the pci_{en/dis}able_msi() calls and make a machdep call. The rest of the MSI functions are superfluous for what is needed at this time. Many of which can have machdep calls added as needed. Ben and Michael Ellerman are looking into rewrite the MSI layer to be more generic. However, in the meantime this works as a interim solution. Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15[POWERPC] Add support for PCI-Express nodes in the device treeJake Moilanen
This adds support to recognize the PCIe device_type "pciex" and made the portdrv buildable. Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15powerpc: Simplify push_end definition in pci_32.cPaul Mackerras
The push_end macro in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c uses integer division and multiplication to achieve the effect of rounding a resource end address up and then advancing it to the end of a power-of-2 sized region. This changes it to an equivalent computation that only needs an integer add and OR. This is partly based on an earlier patch by Mel Gorman. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pagesPaul Mackerras
Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but not for cache-inhibited pages. This patch lets us use 64k hardware pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y). User processes start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any non-cacheable mappings. With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for the imalloc region. If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages. I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this, though, and these machines don't have AGP. When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately. We use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages. If hash_page is trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE before inserting the 4k HPTE. The hash invalidation routines also use the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a set of 4k HPTEs to remove. With those two changes, we can tolerate a mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get removed when the address space is torn down. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-13powerpc: Fix some missed ppc32 mm->context.id conversionsPaul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-12powerpc: Remove unused paca->pgdir fieldPaul Mackerras
The pgdir field in the paca was a leftover from the dynamic VSIDs patch, and is not used in the current kernel code. This removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-12Merge branch 'merge'Paul Mackerras
2006-06-11[PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reportedPaul Mackerras
People have been reporting that PPP connections over ptys, such as used with PPTP, will hang randomly when transferring large amounts of data, for instance in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530. I have managed to reproduce the problem, and the patch below fixes the actual cause. The problem is not in fact in ppp_async.c but in n_tty.c. What happens is that when pptp reads from the pty, we call read_chan() in drivers/char/n_tty.c on the master side of the pty. That copies all the characters out of its buffer to userspace and then calls check_unthrottle(), which calls the pty unthrottle routine, which calls tty_wakeup on the slave side, which calls ppp_asynctty_wakeup, which calls tasklet_schedule. So far so good. Since we are in process context, the tasklet runs immediately and calls ppp_async_process(), which calls ppp_async_push, which calls the tty->driver->write function to send some more output. However, tty->driver->write() returns zero, because the master tty->receive_room is still zero. We haven't returned from check_unthrottle() yet, and read_chan() only updates tty->receive_room _after_ calling check_unthrottle. That means that the driver->write call in ppp_async_process() returns 0. That would be fine if we were going to get a subsequent wakeup call, but we aren't (we just had it, and the buffer is now empty). The solution is for n_tty.c to update tty->receive_room _before_ calling the driver unthrottle routine. The patch below does this. With this patch I was able to transfer a 900MB file over a PPTP connection (taking about 25 minutes), whereas without the patch the connection would always stall in under a minute. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: [PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore order [PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writeback [PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resume [PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled
2006-06-11[PATCH] typo in vmscan.cChristoph Lameter
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Looks like a comma was left from the conversion from a struct to an assignment. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore orderYu, Luming
According to Intel ICH spec, there are several rules that Base Address should be programmed before IOSE (PCICMD register ) enabled. For example ICH7: 12.1.3 SATA : the base address register for the bus master register should be programmed before this bit is set. 11.1.3: PCICMD (USB): The base address register for USB should be programmed before this bit is set. .... To make sure kernel code follow this rule , and prevent unnecessary confusion. I proposal this patch. Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writebackDave Jones
At least one laptop blew up on resume from suspend with a black screen due to a lack of this patch. By only writing back config space that is different, we minimise the possibility of accidents like this. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resumeJean Delvare
We currently don't handle errors properly when resuming a PCI device: * In pci_default_resume() we capture the error code returned by pci_enable_device() but don't pass it up to the caller. Introduced by commit 95a629657dbe28e44a312c47815b3dc3f1ce0970 * In pci_resume_device(), the errors possibly returned by the driver's .resume method or by the generic pci_default_resume() function are ignored. This patch fixes both issues. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabledakpm@osdl.org
Fix build error when CONFIG_ACPI not defined Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-10[SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.Krzysztof Helt
This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10[SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-11powerpc: add context.vdso_base for 32-bit tooPaul Mackerras
This adds a vdso_base element to the mm_context_t for 32-bit compiles (both for ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc). This fixes the compile errors that have been reported in arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-10Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems. [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set. [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly. [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
2006-06-10[PATCH] powerpc: console_initcall ordering issuesMilton Miller
From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> The add_preferred_console call in rtas_console.c was not causing the console to be selected. It turns out that the add_preferred_console was being called after the hvc_console driver was registered. It only works when it is called before the console driver is registered. Reorder hvc_console.o after the hvc_console drivers to allow the selection during console_initcall processing. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10[PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working againMarkus Lidel
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> - Fixed locking of struct i2o_exec_wait in Executive-OSM - Removed LCT Notify in i2o_exec_probe() which caused freeing memory and accessing freed memory during first enumeration of I2O devices - Added missing locking in i2o_exec_lct_notify() - removed put_device() of I2O controller in i2o_iop_remove() which caused the controller structure get freed to early - Fixed size of mempool in i2o_iop_alloc() - Fixed access to freed memory in i2o_msg_get() See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561 Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10[PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaroundAndrew Morton
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Work around the oops reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478. Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and reporting. Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10[PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier documentDavid Howells
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan Stern. The following changes were made: (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory barriers was wrong. (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier. This isn't entirely true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both. (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the opposite order to the stores around the write barrier. (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to the stores. (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences" section to make them clearer. Added a couple of diagrams to make it more clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier. (*) Added a section on memory speculation. (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory barriers. They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on. This may be worthy of further documentation later. (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
2006-06-10powerpc: Fix bug in iommu_alloc_coherent causing hang during bootPaul Mackerras
In commit 8eb6c6e3b9c8bfed3d75536ab142d7694627c2e5, Christoph Hellwig made iommu_alloc_coherent able to do node-local allocations, but unfortunately got the order of the arguments to alloc_pages_node wrong. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-10[SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.David S. Miller
Doing PCI config space accesses to non-present PCI slots can result in fatal JBUS errors if the PCI config access hypervisor call is performed on cpus other than the boot cpu. PCI config space accesses to present PCI slots works just fine. Recursively traverse the OBP device tree under the PCI controller node and record all present device IDs into a small hash table. Avoid the hypervisor call for any PCI config space access attempt for a device not recorded in the hash table. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.Tom "spot" Callaway
Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.David S. Miller
Get rid of all the SUN_570X logic and instead: 1) Make sure MEMARB_ENABLE is set when we probe the SRAM for config information. If that is off we will get timeouts. 2) Always try to sync with the firmware, if there is no firmware running do not treat it as an error and instead just report it the first time we notice this condition. 3) If there is no valid SRAM signature, assume the device is onboard by setting TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT. Update driver version and release date. With help from Michael Chan and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()David S. Miller
This makes the debugging information more usable. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup hvc_rtas.c a littleMichael Ellerman
A few cleanups in hvc_rtas.c: 1. Remove unused RTASCONS_PUT_ATTEMPTS 2. Remove unused rtascons_put_delay. 3. Use i as a loop counter like everyone else on earth. 4. Remove pointless variables, eg. x = foo; if (x) return something_else; 5. Whitespace cleanups and formatting. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Make rtas console _much_ fasterMichael Ellerman
Currently the hvc_rtas driver is painfully slow to use. Our "benchmark" is ls -R /etc, which spits out about 27866 characters. The theoretical maximum speed would be about 2.2 seconds, the current code takes ~50 seconds. The core of the problem is that sometimes when the tty layer asks us to push characters the firmware isn't able to handle some or all of them, and so returns an error. The current code sees this and just returns to the tty code with the buffer half sent. The khvcd thread will eventually wake up and try to push more characters, which will usually work because by then the firmware's had time to make room. But the khvcd thread only wakes up every 10 milliseconds, which isn't fast enough. So change the khvcd thread logic so that if there's an incomplete write we yield() and then immediately try writing again. Doing so makes POLL_QUICK and POLL_WRITE synonymous, so remove POLL_QUICK. With this patch our "benchmark" takes ~2.8 seconds. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Implement PR_[GS]ET_UNALIGN prctls for powerpcPaul Mackerras
This gives the ability to control whether alignment exceptions get fixed up or reported to the process as a SIGBUS, using the existing PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN prctls. We do not implement the option of logging a message on alignment exceptions. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctlPaul Mackerras
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change their endian mode via prctl. This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for "PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian. We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian user/kernel ABI. If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is restored to what it was when the signal was delivered. We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and one for true little-endian. Most of the classic 32-bit processors support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature table. There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry. This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] Add a prctl to change the endianness of a process.Anton Blanchard
This new prctl is intended for changing the execution mode of the processor, on processors that support both a little-endian mode and a big-endian mode. It is intended for use by programs such as instruction set emulators (for example an x86 emulator on PowerPC), which may find it convenient to use the processor in an alternate endianness mode when executing translated instructions. Note that this does not imply the existence of a fully-fledged ABI for both endiannesses, or of compatibility code for converting system calls done in the non-native endianness mode. The program is expected to arrange for all of its system call arguments to be presented in the native endianness. Switching between big and little-endian mode will require some care in constructing the instruction sequence for the switch. Generally the instructions up to the instruction that invokes the prctl system call will have to be in the old endianness, and subsequent instructions will have to be in the new endianness. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>