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2005-11-30powerpc: Fix bug causing FP registers corruption on UP + preemptPaul Mackerras
This fixes a bug noticed by Paolo Galtieri and fixed for ARCH=ppc in the previous commit (ppc: fix floating point register corruption). This fixes the arch/powerpc code by adding preempt_disable/enable, and also cleans it up a bit by pulling out the code that discards any lazily-switched CPU register state into a new function, rather than having that code repeated in three places. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] kprobes: Fix return probes on sys_execveJim Keniston
Fix a bug in kprobes that can cause an Oops or even a crash when a return probe is installed on one of the following functions: sys_execve, do_execve, load_*_binary, flush_old_exec, or flush_thread. The fix is to remove the call to kprobe_flush_task() in flush_thread(). This fix has been tested on all architectures for which the return-probes feature has been implemented (i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64). Please apply. BACKGROUND Up to now, we have called kprobe_flush_task() under two situations: when a task exits, and when it execs. Flushing kretprobe_instances on exit is correct because (a) do_exit() doesn't return, and (b) one or more return-probed functions may be active when a task calls do_exit(). Neither is the case for sys_execve() and its callees. Initially, the mistaken call to kprobe_flush_task() on exec was harmless because we put the "real" return address of each active probed function back in the stack, just to be safe, when we recycled its kretprobe_instance. When support for ppc64 and ia64 was added, this safety measure couldn't be employed, and was eventually dropped even for i386 and x86_64. sys_execve() and its callees were informally blacklisted for return probes until this fix was developed. Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras
2005-11-07[PATCH] powerpc: Make ppc_md.set_dabr non 64-bit specificMichael Ellerman
Define ppc_md.set_dabr for both 32 + 64 bit. Cleanup the implementation for pSeries also, it was needlessly complex. Now we just do two firmware tests at setup time, and use one of two functions, rather than using one function and testing on every call. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-06[PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pagesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel base page size to 64K. The resulting kernel still boots on any hardware. On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently. Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the information from the newer hypervisors. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-03powerpc: Make set_dabr() a ppc_md functionMichael Ellerman
Move pSeries specific code in set_dabr() into a ppc_md function, this will allow us to keep plpar_wrappers.h private to platforms/pseries. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
2005-10-27[PATCH] powerpc: Fix handling of fpscr on 64-bitDavid Gibson
The recent merge of fpu.S broken the handling of fpscr for ARCH=powerpc and CONFIG_PPC64=y. FP registers could be corrupted, leading to strange random application crashes. The confusion arises, because the thread_struct has (and requires) a 64-bit area to save the fpscr, because we use load/store double instructions to get it in to/out of the FPU. However, only the low 32-bits are actually used, so we want to treat it as a 32-bit quantity when manipulating its bits to avoid extra load/stores on 32-bit. This patch replaces the current definition with a structure of two 32-bit quantities (pad and val), to clarify things as much as is possible. The 'val' field is used when manipulating bits, the structure itself is used when obtaining the address for loading/unloading the value from the FPU. While we're at it, consolidate the 4 (!) almost identical versions of cvt_fd() and cvt_df() (arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S, arch/ppc64/kernel/misc.S, arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S, arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S) into a single version in fpu.S. The new version takes a pointer to thread_struct and applies the correct offset itself, rather than a pointer to the fpscr field itself, again to avoid confusion as to which is the correct field to use. Finally, this patch makes ARCH=ppc64 also use the consolidated fpu.S code, which it previously did not. Built for G5 (ARCH=ppc64 and ARCH=powerpc), 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc, CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y). Booted on G5 (ARCH=powerpc) and things which previously fell over no longer do. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-21[PATCH] powerpc: Don't blow away load_addr in start_threadMichael Ellerman
The patch to make process.c work for 32-bit and 64-bit (06d67d54741a5bfefa31945ef195dfa748c29025) broke some 64-bit binaries. We were blowing away load_addr in gpr[2], so we weren't properly relocating the entry point. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-13ppc64: merge binfmt_elf32.cStephen Rothwell
and use start_thread for both 32 and 64 bit bineries. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-13powerpc: make 64 bit binaries workStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-10powerpc: make process.c suitable for both 32-bit and 64-bitPaul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-01powerpc: Get merged kernel to compile and run on 32-bit SMP powermac.Paul Mackerras
This updates the powermac SMP code to use the mpic driver instead of the openpic driver and fixes the SMP-dependent context switch code. We had a subtle bug where we were using interrupt numbers 256-259 for IPIs, but ppc32 had NR_IRQS = 256. Moved the IPIs down to use interrupt numbers 252-255 instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-28powerpc: Fixes to get the merged kernel to boot on powermac.Paul Mackerras
This merges ppc_ksyms.c, puts back the actual do_execve call in sys_execve, makes init_MMU call find_end_of_memory rather than ppc_md.find_end_of_memory (every platform has a device tree with a /memory node now, right?) and fixes some problems with the mpic initialization on newworld powermacs. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-26powerpc: Merge enough to start building in arch/powerpc.Paul Mackerras
This creates the directory structure under arch/powerpc and a bunch of Kconfig files. It does a first-cut merge of arch/powerpc/mm, arch/powerpc/lib and arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac. This is enough to build a 32-bit powermac kernel with ARCH=powerpc. For now we are getting some unmerged files from arch/ppc/kernel and arch/ppc/syslib, or arch/ppc64/kernel. This makes some minor changes to files in those directories and files outside arch/powerpc. The boot directory is still not merged. That's going to be interesting. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>