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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
move BUG_TABLE into RODATA
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There is dma_mask in of_device upon of_platform_device_create()
but we don't actually set coherent_dma_mask. This may cause weird
behavior of USB subsystem using of_device USB host drivers.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A recent patch to legacy_serial.c factored out some code by
using the of_match_node() facility to match a node against
an array of possible matches. However, the patch didn't properly
terminate the array causing potential crashes in cases where no
match is found. In addition, the name of the array was poorly
chosen for a static symbol making debugging harder.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The legacy serial driver does not work with an 8250 type UART that is
described in the device tree with the reg-offset and reg-shift
properties. This change makes legacy_serial ignore these devices.
Signed-off-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit
557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed
the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will
generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly.
We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but
since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages,
we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead.
In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core
file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not
been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating
all those useless newly zeroed pages.
This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the
same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly.
While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the
caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply
could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it)
and a page that just wasn't mapped.
We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not
be turned into a "struct page *". The error is arbitrarily picked to be
EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the
equivalent IO-mapped page case.
[ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing:
that's not how that function works ]
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A recent commit added support for the new 440x6 and 464 cores that have the
added WL1, IL1I, IL1D, IL2I, and ILD2 bits for the caching attributes in the
TLBs. The new bits were cleared in the finish_tlb_load function, however a
similar bit of code was missed in the DataStorage interrupt vector.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There are no in-tree uses of the export any more and in linux-next there
is a change that exports it globally which causes warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'console_drivers' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
and in one case (mpc85xx_defconfig) a build error:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `__crc_console_drivers':
(*ABS*+0x1eb0e6f5): multiple definition of `__crc_console_drivers'
So remove the export now. Also, there is no longer any need to include
linux/console.h.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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GCC 4.4.x looks to be adding support for generating out-of-line register
saves/restores based on:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg01678.html
This breaks the kernel if we enable CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. To fix
this we add the use the save/restore code from gcc and simplified it down
for our needs (integer only).
Additionally, we have to link this code into each module. The other
solution was to add EXPORT_SYMBOL() which meant going through the
trampoline which seemed nonsensical for these out-of-line routines.
Finally, we add some checks to prom_init_check.sh to ignore the
out-of-line save/restore functions.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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debugfs_create_file() returns a non-NULL (non-zero) value in case of
success, not a NULL value.
This fixes this non-critical boot-time debugging error message:
[ 1.316386] calling irq_debugfs_init+0x0/0x50
[ 1.316399] initcall irq_debugfs_init+0x0/0x50 returned -12 after 0 msecs
[ 1.316411] initcall irq_debugfs_init+0x0/0x50 returned with error code -12
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Remove the unneeded function ftrace_ip_converted().
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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During the next merge window, pci_name()'s return value will become
const, so use the new dev_set_name() instead to avoid the warning (from
linux-next):
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c: In function 'of_create_pci_dev':
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c:193: warning: passing argument 1 of 'sprintf' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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When building a signal or a ucontext, we can incorrectly set the MSR_VEC
bit of the kernel pt_regs->msr before returning to userspace if the task
-ever- used VMX.
This can lead to funny result if that stack used it in the past, then
"lost" it (ie. it wasn't enabled after a context switch for example)
and then called get_context. It can end up with VMX enabled and the
registers containing values from some other task.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This patch cleans up the ftrace code in PowerPC based on the comments from
Michael Ellerman.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: proski@gnu.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch adds full support for ftrace for PowerPC (both 64 and 32 bit).
This includes dynamic tracing and function filtering.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Since commit "85xx: Add support for relocatable kernel (and
booting at non-zero)" (37dd2badcfcec35f5e21a0926968d77a404f03c3),
PHYSICAL_START is #defined as kernstart_addr if RELOCATABLE
and FLATMEM is enabled.
PHYSICAL_START is used in prom_init.c and so kernstart_addr
needs to be added to the list of allowed symbols that
prom_init.c can access.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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arch/ppc doesn't have prom_init.o (anymore).
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Commit 76bc080ef5a34aedb63e1691f28c6b42f3468e4e ("POWERPC] Make default
cputable entries reflect selected CPU family") added default entries
for the e200 and e500 families, but missed a closing brace on those
entries, as pointed out by David Gibson. This adds the closing braces.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This printk() appears twice in the same function. Only the latter one
in the inval_range: section appears to be legitimate.
Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Remove duplicate #include of <asm/prom.h> in
arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c.
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This moves lockdep_init() to before udbg_early_init() as the later
can call things that acquire spinlocks etc... This also makes printk
safer to use earlier.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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When debugging early boot problems, it's common to sprinkle printk's
all over the place. However, on 64-bit powerpc, this can lead to
memory corruption if done too early due to the PACA pointer and
lockdep core not being initialized.
This adds some comments to early_setup() that document when it is
safe to do so in order to save time for whoever has to debug that
stuff next.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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When doing lockdep, I had two patches to initialize paca->_current
early, one bogus, and one correct. Unfortunately both got merged
as the bad one ended up being part of the main lockdep patch by
mistake. This causes memory corruption at boot. This removes
the offending code.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Changes the cputable so that various CPU families that have an exclusive
CONFIG_ option have a more sensible default entry to use if the specific
processor hasn't been identified.
This makes the kernel more generally useful when booted on an unknown
PVR for things like new 4xx variants.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The new 440x6 core used on AMCC 460EX/GT introduces new storage attibure
fields to the TLB2 word. Those are:
Bit 11 12 13 14 15
WL1 IL1I IL1D IL2I IL2D
With these bits the cache (L1 and L2) can be configured in a more flexible
way, instruction- and data-cache independently now. The "old" I and W bits
are still available and setting these old bits will automically set these
new bits too (for backward compatibilty).
The current code does not clear these fields resulting in disabling the cache
by chance. This patch now makes sure that these new bits are cleared when
the TLB2 word is written.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This replaces the duplicated arch-specific versions of "sys_pipe()" with
one unified implementation. This removes almost 250 lines of duplicated
code.
It's marked __weak, so that *if* an architecture wants to override the
default implementation it can do so by simply having its own replacement
version, since many architectures use alternate calling conventions for
the 'pipe()' system call for legacy reasons (ie traditional UNIX
implementations often return the two file descriptors in registers)
I still haven't changed the cris version even though Linus says the BKL
isn't needed. The arch maintainer can easily do it if there are really
no obstacles.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpus
[POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfig
[POWERPC] PS3: Remove unsupported wakeup sources
[POWERPC] PS3: Make ps3_virq_setup and ps3_virq_destroy static
[POWERPC] PS3: Add time include to lpm
[POWERPC] Fix slb.c compile warnings
[POWERPC] Xilinx: Fix compile warnings
[POWERPC] Squash build warning for print of resource_size_t in fsl_soc.c
[RAPIDIO] fix current kernel-doc notation
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for PCI Express x8 slot
Fix a potential issue in mpc52xx uart driver
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurations
[POWERPC] 86xx: Fix the wrong serial1 interrupt for 8610 board
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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>
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As TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT is used for more than just the tick length, the name
isn't quite approriate anymore, so this renames it to NTP_SCALE_SHIFT.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This changes time_freq to a 64bit value and makes it static (the only outside
user had no real need to modify it). Intermediate values were already 64bit,
so the change isn't that big, but it saves a little in shifts by replacing
SHIFT_NSEC with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT. PPM_SCALE is then used to convert between
user space and kernel space representation.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix crashkernel= handling when no crashkernel= specified
[POWERPC] Make emergency stack safe for current_thread_info() use
[POWERPC] spufs: add .gitignore for spu_save_dump.h & spu_restore_dump.h
[POWERPC] spufs: trace spu_acquire_saved events
[POWERPC] spufs: fix marker name for find_victim
[POWERPC] spufs: add marker for destroy_spu_context
[POWERPC] spufs: add sputrace marker parameter names
[POWERPC] spufs: add context switch notification log
[POWERPC] mpc5200: defconfigs for CM5200, Lite5200B, Motion-PRO and TQM5200
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Switch mpc5200 dts files to dts-v1 format
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix FEC error handling on FIFO errors
[POWERPC] mpc5200: add Phytec pcm030 board support
[POWERPC] mpc5200: add gpiolib support for mpc5200
[POWERPC] mpc5200: add interrupt type function
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix unterminated of_device_id table
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This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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>
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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>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[RAPIDIO] Change RapidIO doorbell source and target ID field to 16-bit
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO connection info print out and re-training for broken connections
[RAPIDIO] Add serial RapidIO controller support, which includes MPC8548, MPC8641
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node probing into MPC86xx_HPCN board id table
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node into MPC8641HPCN dts file
[RAPIDIO] Auto-probe the RapidIO system size
[RAPIDIO] Add OF-tree support to RapidIO controller driver
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO multi mport support
[RAPIDIO] Move include/asm-ppc/rio.h to asm-powerpc
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO option to kernel configuration
[RAPIDIO] Change RIO function mpc85xx_ to fsl_
[POWERPC] Provide walk_memory_resource() for powerpc
[POWERPC] Update lmb data structures for hotplug memory add/remove
[POWERPC] Hotplug memory remove notifications for powerpc
[POWERPC] windfarm: Add PowerMac 12,1 support
[POWERPC] Fix building of pmac32 when CONFIG_NVRAM=m
[POWERPC] Add IRQSTACKS support on ppc32
[POWERPC] Use __always_inline for xchg* and cmpxchg*
[POWERPC] Add fast little-endian switch system call
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.
Add correct ->owner to proc_fops to fix reading/module unloading race.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running
unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only
tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace
support other SoC/board combinations should work.)
See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details.
[stephen: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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The AMCC 460GT doesn't have an FPU so let's not enable support for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This splits cell io-workaround code into spider-pci dependent code and
a generic part, and also moves io-workarounds initialization into
cell_setup_phb.
Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The udbg console should be safe to call basically at any time after boot.
It does not need any per-cpu resources or for the cpu to be online, as
long as there is a udbg_putc routine hooked up it should work. So mark it
as CON_ANYTIME.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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