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2009-06-09powerpc: Add PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK supportRoland McGrath
Reworked by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> This adds block-step support on powerpc, including a PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK request for ptrace. The BookE implementation is tweaked to fire a single step after a block step in order to mimmic the server behaviour. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-21powerpc: Keep track of emulated instructionsGeert Uytterhoeven
If CONFIG_PPC_EMULATED_STATS is enabled, make available counters for the various classes of emulated instructions under /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/ (assumed debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug). Optionally (controlled by /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/do_warn), rate-limited warnings can be printed to the console when instructions are emulated. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Add support for using doorbells for SMP IPIKumar Gala
The e500mc supports the new msgsnd/doorbell mechanisms that were added in the Power ISA 2.05 architecture. We use the normal level doorbell for doing SMP IPIs at this point. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and supportKumar Gala
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about. We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already have. Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions since older assemblers don't know about them. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-12-03powerpc: Add SPE/EFP math emulation for E500v1/v2 processors.Liu Yu
This patch add the handlers of SPE/EFP exceptions. The code is used to emulate float point arithmetic, when MSR(SPE) is enabled and receive EFP data interrupt or EFP round interrupt. This patch has no conflict with or dependence on FP math-emu. The code has been tested by TestFloat. Now the code doesn't support SPE/EFP instructions emulation (it won't be called when receive program interrupt), but it could be easily added. Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-09-06Remove asm/a.out.h files for all architectures without a.out support.Adrian Bunk
This patch also includes the required removal of (unused) inclusion of <asm/a.out.h> <linux/a.out.h>'s in the arch/ code for these architectures. [dwmw2: updated for 2.6.27-rc] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-25powerpc: BookE hardware watchpoint supportLuis Machado
This patch implements support for HW based watchpoint via the DBSR_DAC (Data Address Compare) facility of the BookE processors. It does so by interfacing with the existing DABR breakpoint code and adding the necessary bits and pieces for the new bits to be properly set or cleared Signed-off-by: Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore, ptrace and signal supportMichael Neuling
This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the VSX load/stores when VSX is available. This will make FP context save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available, as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits. Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state. The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31 doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers. Backward compatibility is maintained. The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full registers. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-06-26powerpc/booke: Add kprobes support for booke style processorsKumar Gala
This patch is based on work done by Madhvesh. R. Sulibhavi back in March 2007. We refactor some of the single step handling since it differs between "classic" and "booke" powerpc cores. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-02-07[POWERPC] Fix compilation for CONFIG_DEBUGGER=n and CONFIG_KEXEC=yOlof Johansson
Looks like "[POWERPC] kdump shutdown hook support" broke builds when CONFIG_DEBUGGER=n and CONFIG_KEXEC=y, such as in g5_defconfig: arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c: In function 'default_machine_crash_shutdown': arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:388: error: '__debugger_fault_handler' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:388: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:388: error: for each function it appears in.) Move the debugger hooks to under CONFIG_DEBUGGER || CONFIG_KEXEC, since that's when the crash code is enabled. (I should have caught this with my build-script pre-merge, my bad. :( ) Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-23[POWERPC] Reworking machine check handling and Fix 440/440ABenjamin Herrenschmidt
This adds a cputable function pointer for the CPU-side machine check handling. The semantic is still the same as the old one, the one in ppc_md. overrides the one in cputable, though ultimately we'll want to change that so the CPU gets first. This removes CONFIG_440A which was a problem for multiplatform kernels and instead fixes up the IVOR at runtime from a setup_cpu function. The "A" version of the machine check also tweaks the regs->trap value to differenciate the 2 versions at the C level. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-12-11[POWERPC] Emulate isel (Integer Select) instructionKumar Gala
isel (Integer Select) is a new user space instruction in the PowerISA 2.04 spec. Not all processors implement it so lets emulate to ensure code built with isel will run everywhere. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-19Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)Alexey Dobriyan
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log. There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes so for arch/xxx files. It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the printks in arch code. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()Serge E. Hallyn
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into is_global_init() and is_container_init(). A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1. A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace, compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes. Changelog: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1: - Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance and remove dependence on the task_pid(). 2.6.21-mm2-pidns2: - [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc, ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init(). This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a bug rather than force a kernel panic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-12[POWERPC] Implement logging of unhandled signalsOlof Johansson
Implement show_unhandled_signals sysctl + support to print when a process is killed due to unhandled signals just as i386 and x86_64 does. Default to having it off, unlike x86 that defaults on. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-10-04[POWERPC] 8xx: Move softemu8xx.c from arch/ppcScott Wood
Previously, Soft_emulate_8xx was called with no implementation, resulting in build failures whenever building 8xx without math emulation. The implementation is copied from arch/ppc to resolve this issue. However, this sort of minimal emulation is not a very good idea other than for compatibility with existing userspaces, as it's less efficient than soft-float and can mislead users into believing they have soft-float. Thus, it is made a configurable option, off by default. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-03[POWERPC] Separate out legacy machine check exception parsersOlof Johansson
Move out the old-style exception parsers to a separate function, and don't call it on platforms that have a platform-specific handler. It would make sense to move out the generic versions into their platforms instead, but that can be done gradually down the road. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-14[POWERPC] Remove unused platform_machine_check()Olof Johansson
Remove leftover cruft from ARCH=ppc. There are no users of platform_machine_check() in ARCH=powerpc, and none should be added (they should use ppc_md.machine_check_handler instead). Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Fix FSL BookE machine check reportingBecky Bruce
Reserved MCSR bits on FSL BookE parts may have spurious values when mcheck occurs. Mask these off when printing the MCSR to avoid confusion. Also, get rid of the MCSR_GL_CI bit defined for e500 - this bit doesn't actually have any meaning. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-07-17Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPSPavel Emelianov
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()Heiko Carstens
The current generic bug implementation has a call to dump_stack() in case a WARN_ON(whatever) gets hit. Since report_bug(), which calls dump_stack(), gets called from an exception handler we can do better: just pass the pt_regs structure to report_bug() and pass it to show_regs() in case of a warning. This will give more debug informations like register contents, etc... In addition this avoids some pointless lines that dump_stack() emits, since it includes a stack backtrace of the exception handler which is of no interest in case of a warning. E.g. on s390 the following lines are currently always present in a stack backtrace if dump_stack() gets called from report_bug(): [<000000000001517a>] show_trace+0x92/0xe8) [<0000000000015270>] show_stack+0xa0/0xd0 [<00000000000152ce>] dump_stack+0x2e/0x3c [<0000000000195450>] report_bug+0x98/0xf8 [<0000000000016cc8>] illegal_op+0x1fc/0x21c [<00000000000227d6>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10 Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08move die notifier handling to common codeChristoph Hellwig
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place) arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage] [bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-26[POWERPC] Fix backwards ? : when printing machine typeanton@samba.org
Looks like someone got this backwards, highlighting the perils of the ? : !!! :) Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-03-26[POWERPC] Handle recursive oopsesanton@samba.org
Handle recursive oopses, like on x86. We had a few cases recently where we locked up in oops printing and didnt make it into crashdump. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-03-26[POWERPC] Clean up pmac_backlight_unblank in oops pathanton@samba.org
Move pmac_backlight_unblank into its own function and only take the pmac_backlight_mutex when we are on a pmac for that added bit of paranoia. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-03-26[POWERPC] Add missing oops_enter/oops_exitanton@samba.org
Add missing oops_enter/oops_exit, makes pause_on_oops boot parameter work. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-20backlight: Separate backlight properties from backlight ops pointersRichard Purdie
Per device data such as brightness belongs to the indivdual device and should therefore be separate from the the backlight operation function pointers. This patch splits the two types of data and allows simplifcation of some code. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
2007-02-20backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphoreRichard Purdie
backlight_device->sem has a very specific use as documented in the header file. The external users of this are using it for a different reason, to serialise access to the update_status() method. backlight users were supposed to implement their own internal serialisation of update_status() if needed but everyone is doing things differently and incorrectly. Therefore add a global mutex to take care of serialisation for everyone, once and for all. Locking for get_brightness remains optional since most users don't need it. Also update the lcd class in a similar way. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
2007-02-07[POWERPC] Fixup error handling when emulating a floating point instructionKumar Gala
When we do full FP emulation its possible that we need to post a SIGFPE based on the results of the emulation. The previous code ignored this case completely. Additionally, the Soft_emulate_8xx case had two issues. One, we should never generate a SIGFPE since the code only does data movement. Second, we were interpreting the return codes incorrectly, it returns 0 on success, 1 on illop and -EFAULT on a data access error. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-02-07[POWERPC] Enable interrupts if we are doing fp math emulationKumar Gala
Anytime we are emulating an instruction we are going to be doing some form of get_user() to get the instruction image to decode. Since get_user() might sleep we need to ensure we have interrupts enabled or we might see something like: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:697 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 Call Trace: [D6023EB0] [C0007F84] show_stack+0x58/0x174 (unreliable) [D6023EE0] [C0022C34] __might_sleep+0xbc/0xd0 [D6023EF0] [C000D158] program_check_exception+0x1d8/0x4fc [D6023F40] [C000E744] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c --- Exception: 700 at 0x102a7100 LR = 0xdb9ef04 However, we want to ensure that interrupts are disabled when handling a trap exception that might be used for a kernel breakpoint. This is why ProgramCheck is marked as EXC_XFER_STD instead of EXC_XFER_EE. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-01-24[POWERPC] Use is_init() instead of pid==1Akinobu Mita
Use is_init() rather than hard coded pid comparison. Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-11[POWERPC] Generic BUG for powerpcJeremy Fitzhardinge
This makes powerpc use the generic BUG machinery. The biggest reports the function name, since it is redundant with kallsyms, and not needed in general. There is an overall reduction of code, since module_32/64 duplicated several functions. Unfortunately there's no way to tell gcc that BUG won't return, so the BUG macro includes a goto loop. This will generate a real jmp instruction, which is never used. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] [paulus@samba.org: remove infinite loop in BUG_ON] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-08[POWERPC] Add support for FP emulation for the e300c2 coreKim Phillips
The e300c2 has no FPU. Its MSR[FP] is grounded to zero. If an attempt is made to execute a floating point instruction (including floating-point load, store, or move instructions), the e300c2 takes a floating-point unavailable interrupt. This patch adds support for FP emulation on the e300c2 by declaring a new CPU_FTR_FP_TAKES_FPUNAVAIL, where FP unavail interrupts are intercepted and redirected to the ProgramCheck exception path for correct emulation handling. (If we run out of CPU_FTR bits we could look to reclaim this bit by adding support to test the cpu_user_features for PPC_FEATURE_HAS_FPU instead) It adds a nop to the exception path for 32-bit processors with a FPU. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2006-12-04[POWERPC] Merge 32 and 64 bits asm-powerpc/io.hBenjamin Herrenschmidt
powerpc: Merge 32 and 64 bits asm-powerpc/io.h The rework on io.h done for the new hookable accessors made it easier, so I just finished the work and merged 32 and 64 bits io.h for arch/powerpc. arch/ppc still uses the old version in asm-ppc, there is just too much gunk in there that I really can't be bothered trying to cleanup. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-11-01[POWERPC] Make alignment exception always check exception tableBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The alignment exception used to only check the exception table for -EFAULT, not for other errors. That opens an oops window if we can coerce the kernel into getting an alignment exception for other reasons in what would normally be a user-protected accessor, which can be done via some of the futex ops. This fixes it by always checking the exception tables. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-16[POWERPC] Never panic when taking altivec exceptions from userspaceAnton Blanchard
At the moment we rely on a cpu feature bit or a firmware property to detect altivec. If we dont have either of these and the cpu does in fact support altivec we can cause a panic from userspace. It seems safer to always send a signal if we manage to get an 0xf20 exception from userspace. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-13[POWERPC] Emulate power5 popcntb instructionWill Schmidt
In an attempt to make it easier for a power5 optimized app to run on a power4 or a 970 or random earlier machine, this provides emulation of the popcntb instruction. Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-23Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
2006-08-23[POWERPC] Correct masks used in emulating some instructionsPaul Mackerras
When we get an illegal instruction exception, we check to see whether the instruction is one that we emulate for the user program. Some of the masks we use in checking whether the offending instruction is one we care about didn't have the top bit set, which is the MSB of the major opcode. Thus some undefined opcodes could get emulated as other (defined but unimplemented) instructions. This corrects the masks. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-18Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
2006-08-17[POWERPC] Make crash.c work on 32-bit and 64-bitMichael Ellerman
To compile kexec on 32-bit we need a few more bits and pieces. Rather than add empty definitions, we can make crash.c work on 32-bit, with only a couple of kludges. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-17[POWERPC] Make secondary CPUs call into kdump on reset exceptionDavid Wilder
In the case of a system hang, the user will invoke soft-reset to initiate the kdump boot. If xmon is enabled, the CPU(s) enter into the xmon debugger. Unfortunately, the secondary CPU(s) will return to the hung state when they exit from the debugger (returned from die() -> system_reset_exception()). This causes a problem in kdump since the hung CPU(s) will not respond to the IPI sent from kdump. This patch fixes the issue by calling crash_kexec_secondary() directly from system_reset_exception() without returning to the previous state. These secondary CPUs wait 5ms until the kdump boot is started by the primary CPU. In the case we exited from the debugger to "recover" (command 'x' in xmon) the primary and the secondary CPUs will all return from die() -> system_reset_exception() ->crash_kexec_secondary() wait 5ms, then return to the previous state. A kdump boot is not started in this case. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-14[PATCH] Change panic_on_oops message to "Fatal exception"Horms
Previously the message was "Fatal exception: panic_on_oops", as introduced in a recent patch whith removed a somewhat dangerous call to ssleep() in the panic_on_oops path. However, Paul Mackerras suggested that this was somewhat confusing, leadind people to believe that it was panic_on_oops that was the root cause of the fatal exception. On his suggestion, this patch changes the message to simply "Fatal exception". A suitable oops message should already have been displayed. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-31[PATCH] panic_on_oops: remove ssleep()Horms
This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour across all architectures that implement it. It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured in interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause a panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at all. This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message accordinly. I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is too long, feedback welcome. For powerpc it also unifies the 32bit and 64bit behaviour. Fror x86_64, this patch only updates the console message, as ssleep() is already not present. Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-28[POWERPC] Add the use of the firmware soft-reset-nmi to kdump.David Wilder
With this patch, kdump uses the firmware soft-reset NMI for two purposes: 1) Initiate the kdump (take a crash dump) by issuing a soft-reset. 2) Break a CPU out of a deadlock condition that is detected during kdump processing. When a soft-reset is initiated each CPU will enter system_reset_exception() and set its corresponding bit in the global bit-array cpus_in_sr then call die(). When die() finds the CPU's bit set in cpu_in_sr crash_kexec() is called to initiate a crash dump. The first CPU to enter crash_kexec() is called the "crashing CPU". All other CPUs are "secondary CPUs". The secondary CPU's pass through to crash_kexec_secondary() and sleep. The crashing CPU waits for all CPUs to enter via soft-reset then boots the kdump kernel (see crash_soft_reset_check()) When the system crashes due to a panic or exception, crash_kexec() is called by panic() or die(). The crashing CPU sends an IPI to all other CPUs to notify them of the pending shutdown. If a CPU is in a deadlock or hung state with interrupts disabled, the IPI will not be delivered. The result being, that the kdump kernel is not booted. This problem is solved with the use of a firmware generated soft-reset. After the crashing_cpu has issued the IPI, it waits for 10 sec for all CPUs to enter crash_ipi_callback(). A CPU signifies its entry to crash_ipi_callback() by setting its corresponding bit in the cpus_in_crash bit array. After 10 sec, if one or more CPUs have not set their bit in cpus_in_crash we assume that the CPU(s) is deadlocked. The operator is then prompted to generate a soft-reset to break the deadlock. Each CPU enters the soft reset handler as described above. Two conditions must be handled at this point: 1) The system crashed because the operator generated a soft-reset. See 2) The system had crashed before the soft-reset was generated ( in the case of a Panic or oops). The first CPU to enter crash_kexec() uses the state of the kexec_lock to determine this state. If kexec_lock is already held then condition 2 is true and crash_kexec_secondary() is called, else; this CPU is flagged as the crashing CPU, the kexec_lock is acquired and crash_kexec() proceeds as described above. Each additional CPUs responding to the soft-reset will pass through crash_kexec() to kexec_secondary(). All secondary CPUs call crash_ipi_callback() readying them self's for the shutdown. When ready they clear their bit in cpus_in_sr. The crashing CPU waits in kexec_secondary() until all other CPUs have cleared their bits in cpus_in_sr. The kexec kernel boot is then started. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Rewritten backlight infrastructure for portable Apple computersMichael Hanselmann
This patch contains a total rewrite of the backlight infrastructure for portable Apple computers. Backward compatibility is retained. A sysfs interface allows userland to control the brightness with more steps than before. Userland is allowed to upload a brightness curve for different monitors, similar to Mac OS X. [akpm@osdl.org: add needed exports] Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.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>
2006-03-30powerpc: merge machine_check_exception between ppc32 & ppc64Kumar Gala
Make machine_check_exception handling code path the same on ppc32 & ppc64. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>