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2008-05-02[POWERPC] Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpusPaul Mackerras
This fixes a regression reported by Kamalesh Bulabel where a POWER4 machine would crash because of an SLB miss at a point where the SLB miss exception was unrecoverable. This regression is tracked at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10082 SLB misses at such points shouldn't happen because the kernel stack is the only memory accessed other than things in the first segment of the linear mapping (which is mapped at all times by entry 0 of the SLB). The context switch code ensures that SLB entry 2 covers the kernel stack, if it is not already covered by entry 0. None of entries 0 to 2 are ever replaced by the SLB miss handler. Where this went wrong is that the context switch code assumes it doesn't have to write to SLB entry 2 if the new kernel stack is in the same segment as the old kernel stack, since entry 2 should already be correct. However, when we start up a secondary cpu, it calls slb_initialize, which doesn't set up entry 2. This is correct for the boot cpu, where we will be using a stack in the kernel BSS at this point (i.e. init_thread_union), but not necessarily for secondary cpus, whose initial stack can be allocated anywhere. This doesn't cause any immediate problem since the SLB miss handler will just create an SLB entry somewhere else to cover the initial stack. In fact it's possible for the cpu to go quite a long time without SLB entry 2 being valid. Eventually, though, the entry created by the SLB miss handler will get overwritten by some other entry, and if the next access to the stack is at an unrecoverable point, we get the crash. This fixes the problem by making slb_initialize create a suitable entry for the kernel stack, if we are on a secondary cpu and the stack isn't covered by SLB entry 0. This requires initializing the get_paca()->kstack field earlier, so I do that in smp_create_idle where the current field is initialized. This also abstracts a bit of the computation that mk_esid_data in slb.c does so that it can be used in slb_initialize. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-02[POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfigGeoff Levand
Update ps3_defconfig. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-02[POWERPC] PS3: Remove unsupported wakeup sourcesGeoff Levand
Other OS wakeup is not supported from the IR controller, the bluetooth controller nor the RTC. Remove references to these in the PS3 sys-manager source. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-02[POWERPC] PS3: Make ps3_virq_setup and ps3_virq_destroy staticGeert Uytterhoeven
The routines ps3_virq_setup() and ps3_virq_destroy() are used in only one file, so make them static. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-02[POWERPC] PS3: Add time include to lpmFUJITA Tomonori
Add an include <asm/time.h> statement for get_tb(). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-02[POWERPC] Fix slb.c compile warningsGeoff Levand
Arrange for a syntax check to always be done on the powerpc/mm/slb.c DBG() macro by defining it to pr_debug() for non-debug builds. Also, fix these related compile warnings: slb.c:273: warning: format '%04x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int slb.c:274: warning: format '%04x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int' Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-02Merge branch 'powerpc-next' of ↵Paul Mackerras
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc
2008-05-01[POWERPC] Xilinx: Fix compile warningsKumar Gala
arch/powerpc/sysdev/xilinx_intc.c: In function 'xilinx_intc_init': arch/powerpc/sysdev/xilinx_intc.c:111: warning: format '%08X' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t' drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c: In function 'hwicap_setup': drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c:626: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c:646: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'resource_size_t' Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-05-01[POWERPC] Squash build warning for print of resource_size_t in fsl_soc.cBecky Bruce
When resource_size_t is larger than an int, the current code generates a build warning. Kill it. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-05-01[RAPIDIO] fix current kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
Fix current (-git16) missing docbook/kernel-doc notation in RapidIO files. Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//include/linux/rio.h:187): No description found for parameter 'sys_size' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//include/linux/rio.h:187): No description found for parameter 'phy_type' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c:188): No description found for parameter 'mport' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c:224): No description found for parameter 'mport' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c:245): No description found for parameter 'mport' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c:270): No description found for parameter 'mport' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c:311): No description found for parameter 'mport' Warning(linux-2.6.25-git16//arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c:996): No description found for parameter 'dev' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-05-01[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for PCI Express x8 slotAnton Vorontsov
This patch adds pcie node which is resposible for PCI-E x8 slot functioning. Though, this was tested using only x1 SKY2 NIC. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-05-01Fix a potential issue in mpc52xx uart driverAndrew Liu
mpc52xx_uart_int and __uart_put_char both try to acquire the port->lock. Therefore the function sequence of: mpc52xx_uart_int--> ...-->flush_to_ldisc-->...-->__uart_put_char can potentially trigger a deadlock. To avoid this deadlock a fix similar to that found in the 8250.c serial driver is applied. The deadlock is avoided by releasing the lock before pushing a buffer and reacquiring it when completed. Signed-off-by: Andrew Liu <shengping.liu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-05-01[POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurationsGrant Likely
Various improvements for configuring the MPC5200 MII link from the device tree: * Look for 'current-speed' property for fixed speed MII links * Look for 'fsl,7-wire-mode' property for boards using the 7 wire mode * move definition of private data structure out of the header file Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] 86xx: Fix the wrong serial1 interrupt for 8610 boardJason Jin
Signed-off-by: Jason Jin <Jason.jin@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] Fix crashkernel= handling when no crashkernel= specifiedMichael Ellerman
Commit edd8ce67436851a62f99f1d9707b40ea6a8e5323 (Use extended crashkernel command line on ppc64), changed the logic in reserve_crashkernel() which deals with the crashkernel= command line option. This introduced a bug in the case when there is no crashkernel= option, or it is incorrect. We would fall through and calculate the crash_size based on the existing values in crashk_res. If both start and end are 0, the default, we calculate the crash_size as 1 byte - which is wrong. Rework the logic so that we use crashk_res, regardless of whether it's set by the command line or via the device tree (see prom.c). Then check if we have an empty range (end == start), and if so make sure to set both end and start to zero (this is checked in machine_kexec_64.c). Then we calculate the crash_size once we know we have a non-zero range. Finally we always want to warn the user if they specify a base != 32MB, so remove the special case for that in the command line parsing case. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] Make emergency stack safe for current_thread_info() useMichael Ellerman
The current_thread_info() macro, used by preempt_count(), assumes the base address and size of the stack are THREAD_SIZE aligned. The emergency stack currently isn't either of these things, which could potentially cause problems anytime we're running on the emergency stack. That includes when we detect a bad kernel stack pointer, and also during early_setup_secondary(). Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jk/spufsPaul Mackerras
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: add .gitignore for spu_save_dump.h & spu_restore_dump.hKumar Gala
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: trace spu_acquire_saved eventsJulio M. Merino Vidal
The sputrace module contained a trace entry for spu_acquire_saved, but this marker was not placed anywhere. Fix this by adding a marker to the routine. Signed-off-by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: fix marker name for find_victimJulio M. Merino Vidal
Fix a typo in the marker for the find_victim function, which prevented it from being traced. It previously read find_vitim. Signed-off-by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: add marker for destroy_spu_contextJulio M. Merino Vidal
The sputrace module contained a reference to a marker for destroy_spu_context, but this marker did not appear in the code. Fix this by adding a marker in the function. Signed-off-by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: add sputrace marker parameter namesJulio M. Merino Vidal
The markers facility defines the marker parameters to be of the form 'name %format'. Add parameter names to sputrace, to specify the context and %spu paramerters, instead of just specifying the '%format' part. Signed-off-by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: add context switch notification logChristoph Hellwig
There are userspace instrumentation tools that need to monitor spu context switches. This patch adds a new file called 'switch_log' to each spufs context directory that can be used to monitor the context switches. Context switch in/out and exit from spu_run are monitored after the file was first opened and can be read from it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: defconfigs for CM5200, Lite5200B, Motion-PRO and TQM5200Bartlomiej Sieka
Board-specific defconfigs based on current mpc5200_defconfig, archival lite5200_defconfig, and [cm5200|motionpro|tqm5200]_defconfig from the linux-2.6-denx tree. Kernels build using these defconfigs were verified to boot with root filesystem mounted over NFS on Motion-PRO, TQM5200 and Lite5200B boards. CM5200 target was not tested due to hardware unavailability. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Sieka <tur@semihalf.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: Switch mpc5200 dts files to dts-v1 formatGrant Likely
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix FEC error handling on FIFO errorsSascha Hauer
The error handling for the mpc5200 fec interrupt is broken. The intended behaviour is like this: * If one of FEC_IEVENT_RFIFO_ERROR and FEC_IEVENT_XFIFO_ERROR happens, the datasheet says (MPC5200B User's Guide R1.2, p. 14-13): "When this occurs, software must ensure both the FIFO Controller and BestComm are soft-reset". * On any other error (non-TFINT) interrupt, just issue a debug message. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: add Phytec pcm030 board supports.hauer@pengutronix.de
Add board support for the Phytec pcm030 mpc5200b based board. It does not need any platform specific fixups and as such is handled as a mpc5200 simple platform. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: add gpiolib support for mpc5200s.hauer@pengutronix.de
This patch adds gpiolib support for mpc5200 SOCs. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: add interrupt type functionSascha Hauer
Add a set_type function for external (GPIO) interrupts. Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <j.beisert@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix unterminated of_device_id tableGrant Likely
If CONFIG_PPC_MPC5121 is not set, then the of_device_id table for the mpc5200 serial driver will not get terminated with a NULL entry. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Change RapidIO doorbell source and target ID field to 16-bitZhang Wei
Change RapidIO doorbell source and target ID field to 16-bit for support large system size, which max rio devid is 65535. Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO connection info print out and re-training for broken ↵Zhang Wei
connections Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add serial RapidIO controller support, which includes MPC8548, MPC8641Zhang Wei
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node probing into MPC86xx_HPCN board id tableZhang Wei
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node into MPC8641HPCN dts fileZhang Wei
This adds properties describing the RapidIO controller to the device-tree source for the MPC8641HPCN board. Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Auto-probe the RapidIO system sizeZhang Wei
The RapidIO system size will auto probe in RIO setup. The route table and rionet_active in rionet.c are changed to be allocated dynamically according to the size of the system. Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add OF-tree support to RapidIO controller driverZhang Wei
This initializes the RapidIO controller driver using addresses and interrupt numbers obtained from the firmware device tree, rather than using hardcoded constants. Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO multi mport supportZhang Wei
The original RapidIO driver suppose there is only one mpc85xx RIO controller in system. So, some data structures are defined as mpc85xx_rio global, such as 'regs_win', 'dbell_ring', 'msg_tx_ring'. Now, I changed them to mport's private members. And you can define multi RIO OF-nodes in dts file for multi RapidIO controller in one processor, such as PCI/PCI-Ex host controllers in Freescale's silicon. And the mport operation function declaration should be changed to know which RapidIO controller is target. Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Move include/asm-ppc/rio.h to asm-powerpcZhang Wei
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO option to kernel configurationZhang Wei
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[RAPIDIO] Change RIO function mpc85xx_ to fsl_Zhang Wei
The driver is suitable for the Freescale MPC8641 processor as well as 85xx processors, so this changes the mpc85xx prefix to fsl. Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <wei.zhang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Provide walk_memory_resource() for powerpcBadari Pulavarty
Provide walk_memory_resource() for 64-bit powerpc. PowerPC maintains logical memory region mapping in the lmb.memory structure. Walk through these structures and do the callbacks for the contiguous chunks. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Update lmb data structures for hotplug memory add/removeBadari Pulavarty
The powerpc kernel maintains information about logical memory blocks in the lmb.memory structure, which is initialized and updated at boot time, but not when memory is added or removed while the kernel is running. This adds a hotplug memory notifier which updates lmb.memory when memory is added or removed. This information is useful for eHEA driver to find out the memory layout and holes. NOTE: No special locking is needed for lmb_add() and lmb_remove(). Calls to these are serialized by caller. (pSeries_reconfig_chain). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Hotplug memory remove notifications for powerpcBadari Pulavarty
Hotplug memory remove notifier for 64-bit powerpc. This gets invoked by writing to /proc/ppc64/ofdt the string "remove_node " followed by the firmware device tree pathname of the node that needs to be removed. In response, this adjusts the sections and removes sysfs entries by calling __remove_pages(). Then it calls arch-specific code to get rid of the hardware MMU mappings for the section of memory. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] windfarm: Add PowerMac 12,1 supportÉtienne Bersac
This implements a new driver named windfarm_pm121, which drives the fans on PowerMac 12,1 machines : iMac G5 iSight (rev C) 17" and 20". It's based on the windfarm_pm81 driver from Benjamin Herrenschmidt. This includes fixes from David Woodhouse correcting the names of some of the sensors. Signed-off-by: Étienne Bersac <bersace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Fix building of pmac32 when CONFIG_NVRAM=mTony Breeds
Kamalesh Babulal (kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com) reports that CONFIG_NVRAM=m is valid in terms of Kconfig but fails to build with: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1401 modules ERROR: "pmac_newworld" [arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__alloc_bootmem" [arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error The arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.c code really needs to be builtin, but as its compilation is dependent on a generic Kconfig symbol we force nvram.c to be builtin if CONFIG_NVRAM is 'y' or 'm'. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Add IRQSTACKS support on ppc32Kumar Gala
This makes it possible to use separate stacks for hard and soft IRQs on 32-bit powerpc as well as on 64-bit. The code for 32-bit is just the 32-bit analog of the 64-bit code. * Added allocation and initialization of the irq stacks. We limit the stacks to be in lowmem for ppc32. * Implemented ppc32 versions of call_do_softirq() and call_handle_irq() to switch the stack pointers * Reworked how we do stack overflow detection. We now keep around the limit of the stack in the thread_struct and compare against the limit to see if we've overflowed. We can now use this on ppc64 if desired. [ paulus@samba.org: Fixed bug on 6xx where we need to reload r9 with the thread_info pointer. ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Use __always_inline for xchg* and cmpxchg*Paul Mackerras
This changes the definitions of the xchg and cmpxchg families of functions in include/asm-powerpc/system.h to be marked __always_inline rather than __inline__. The reason for doing this is that we rely on the compiler inlining them in order to eliminate the references to __xchg_called_with_bad_pointer and __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer, which are deliberately left undefined. Thus this change will enable us to make the inline keyword be just a hint rather than a directive. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Add fast little-endian switch system callPaul Mackerras
This adds a system call on 64-bit platforms for switching between little-endian and big-endian modes that is much faster than doing a prctl call. This system call is handled as a special case right at the start of the system call entry code, and because it is a special case, it uses a system call number which is out of the range of normal system calls, namely 0x1ebe. Measurements with lmbench on a 4.2GHz POWER6 showed no measurable change in the speed of normal system calls with this patch. Switching endianness with this new system call takes around 60ns on a 4.2GHz POWER6, compared with around 300ns to switch endian mode with a prctl. This can provide a significant performance advantage for emulators for little-endian architectures that want to switch between big-endian and little-endian mode frequently, e.g. because they are generating instructions sequences on the fly and they want to run those sequences in little-endian mode. The other thing about this system call is that it doesn't clobber as many registers as a normal system call. It only clobbers r12. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-28drivers: fix integer as NULL pointer warningsHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>