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2008-07-09ibm_newemac: Parameterize EMAC Multicast Match HandlingGrant Erickson
Various instances of the EMAC core have varying: 1) number of address match slots, 2) width of the registers for handling address match slots, 3) number of registers for handling address match slots and 4) base offset for those registers. As the driver stands today, it assumes that all EMACs have 4 IAHT and GAHT 32-bit registers, starting at offset 0x30 from the register base, with only 16-bits of each used for a total of 64 match slots. The 405EX(r) and 460EX now use the EMAC4SYNC core rather than the EMAC4 core. This core has 8 IAHT and GAHT registers, starting at offset 0x80 from the register base, with ALL 32-bits of each used for a total of 256 match slots. This adds a new compatible device tree entry "emac4sync" and a new, related feature flag "EMAC_FTR_EMAC4SYNC" along with a series of macros and inlines which supply the appropriate parameterized value based on the presence or absence of the EMAC4SYNC feature. The code has further been reworked where appropriate to use those macros and inlines. In addition, the register size passed to ioremap is now taken from the device tree: c4 for EMAC4SYNC cores 74 for EMAC4 cores 70 for EMAC cores rather than sizeof (emac_regs). Finally, the device trees have been updated with the appropriate compatible entries and resource sizes. This has been tested on an AMCC Haleakala board such that: 1) inbound ICMP requests to 'haleakala.local' via MDNS from both Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Ubuntu 8.04 systems as well as 2) outbound ICMP requests from 'haleakala.local' to those same systems in the '.local' domain via MDNS now work. Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/mm: Don't clear _PAGE_COHERENT when _PAGE_SAO is setDave Kleikamp
The current low level hash code on LPAR configurations clears _PAGE_COHERENT (M) when either _PAGE_GUARDED (G) or _PAGE_NO_CACHE (I) is set. This conflicts with _PAGE_SAO which has M, I and W bits sets at once (normally invalid combo) to indicate the new SAO attribute. This changes the code to allow that case. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/mm: Add Strong Access Ordering supportDave Kleikamp
Allow an application to enable Strong Access Ordering on specific pages of memory on Power 7 hardware. Currently, power has a weaker memory model than x86. Implementing a stronger memory model allows an emulator to more efficiently translate x86 code into power code, resulting in faster code execution. On Power 7 hardware, storing 0b1110 in the WIMG bits of the hpte enables strong access ordering mode for the memory page. This patchset allows a user to specify which pages are thus enabled by passing a new protection bit through mmap() and mprotect(). I have defined PROT_SAO to be 0x10. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc: Use new printk extension %pS to print symbols on oopsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This changes the oops and backtrace code to use the new %pS printk extension to print out symbols rather than manually calling print_symbol. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc: move device_to_mask() to dma-mapping.hMark Nelson
Move device_to_mask() to dma-mapping.h because we need to use it from outside dma_64.c in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/cell: cell_dma_dev_setup_iommu() return the iommu tableMark Nelson
Make cell_dma_dev_setup_iommu() return a pointer to the struct iommu_table (or NULL if no table can be found) rather than putting this pointer into dev->archdata.dma_data (let the caller do that), and rename this function to cell_get_iommu_table() to reflect this change. This will allow us to get the iommu table for a device that doesn't have the table in the archdata. Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/dma: implement new dma_*map*_attrs() interfacesMark Nelson
Update powerpc to use the new dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces. In doing so update struct dma_mapping_ops to accept a struct dma_attrs and propagate these changes through to all users of the code (generic IOMMU and the 64bit DMA code, and the iseries and ps3 platform code). The old dma_*map_*() interfaces are reimplemented as calls to the corresponding new interfaces. Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/dma: Add struct iommu_table argument to iommu_map_sg()Mark Nelson
Make iommu_map_sg take a struct iommu_table. It did so before commit 740c3ce66700640a6e6136ff679b067e92125794 (iommu sg merging: ppc: make iommu respect the segment size limits). This stops the function looking in the archdata.dma_data for the iommu table because in the future it will be called with a device that has no table there. This also has the nice side effect of making iommu_map_sg() match the other map functions. Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: add atomic busy_spus counter to struct cbe_spu_infoMaxim Shchetynin
As nr_active counter includes also spus waiting for syscalls to return we need a seperate counter that only counts spus that are currently running on spu side. This counter shall be used by a cpufreq governor that targets a frequency dependent from the number of running spus. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/ps3: Quiet system bus match outputGeoff Levand
Reduce the output verbosity of ps3_system_bus_match(). Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: only add ".ctx" file with "debug" mount optionJeremy Kerr
Currently, the .ctx debug file in spu context directories is always present. We'd prefer to prevent users from relying on this file, so add a "debug" mount option to spufs. The .ctx file will only be added to the context directories when this option is present. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: add sizes for context filesJeremy Kerr
Populate the size member of a few context files. Leave out files that have different semantics with read vs mmap, or contain a variable-length hex string. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: allow spufs files to specify sizesJeremy Kerr
Currently, spufs never specifies the i_size for the files in context directories, so stat() always reports 0-byte files. This change adds allows the spufs_dir_(nosched_)contents arrays to specify a file size. This allows stat() to report correct file sizes, and makes SEEK_END work. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: avoid magic numbers for mapping sizesJeremy Kerr
Use a set of #defines for the size of context mappings, instead of magic numbers. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: don't extend time time slice if context is not in spu_runLuke Browning
An spu context shouldn't get an extra tick if the time slice code couldn't find something else to run. This means contexts that are not within spu_run (ie, SPU_SCHED_SPU_RUN is cleared) will not receive extra ticks while we have no other contexts waiting. Signed-off-by: Luke Browning <lukebrowning@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-09powerpc/spufs: provide context debug fileLuke Browning
Add a ctxt file to spufs that shows spu context information that is used in scheduling. This info can be used for debugging spufs scheduler issues, and to isolate between application and spufs problems as it shows a lot of state such as priorities and dispatch counts. This file contains internal spufs state and is subject to change at any time, and therefore no applications should depend on it. The file is intended for the use of spufs kernel developers. Signed-off-by: Luke Browning <lukebrowning@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-07-03powerpc/pseries: Update numa association of hotplug memory add for drconf memoryNathan Fontenot
Update the association of a memory section with a numa node that occurs during hotplug add of a memory section. This adds a check in the hot_add_scn_to_nid() routine for the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node in the device tree. If present the new hot_add_drconf_scn_to_nid() routine is invoked, which can properly parse the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node of the device tree and make the proper numa node associations. This also introduces the valid_hot_add_scn() routine as a helper function for code that is common to the hot_add_scn_to_nid() and hot_add_drconf_scn_to_nid() routines. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc/pseries: Split code into helper routines for drconf memoryNathan Fontenot
This splits off several pieces of code that parse the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node of the device tree into separate helper routines. This is in preparation for the next commit that will use these helper routines. There are no functional changes in this patch. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc/pseries: Update the device tree correctly for drconf memory add/removeNathan Fontenot
This updates the device tree manipulation routines so that memory add/remove of lmbs represented under the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node of the device tree invokes the hotplug notifier chain. This change is needed because of the change in the way memory is represented under the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node. All lmbs are described in the ibm,dynamic-memory property instead of having a separate node for each lmb as in previous device tree layouts. This requires the update_node() routine to check for updates to the ibm,dynamic-memory property and invoke the hotplug notifier chain. This also updates the pseries hotplug notifier to be able to gather information for lmbs represented under the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node and have the lmbs added/removed. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc/pseries: Use base address to derive starting page frame numberNathan Fontenot
Use the base address of the lmb to derive the starting page frame number instead of trying to extract it from the drc index of the lmb. The drc index should not be used for this as it will, and did, break. Until this point, systems that have had memory represented in the device tree with a node for each lmb the drc index would (luckily) closely track the base address of the lmb. For example a lmb with a drc index of 8000000a would have a base address of a0000000. This correlation allowed the current code to derive the starting page frame number from the drc inddex Device tree layouts where lmbs are represented under the ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node in the ibm,dynamic-memory property do not have this correlation between the drc index and base address of the lmb. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc/pseries: Allow phandle to be specified in formats other than decimalNathan Fontenot
Allow the phandle passed to the /proc/ppc64/ofdt file to be specified in formats other than decimal. This allows us to easily specify phandle values in hex that would otherwise appear as negative integers. This is an issue on systems where the value of /proc/device-tree/ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory.ibm,phandle is fffffff9. Having to pass this to the ofdt file as a string results in a large negative number, and simple_strtoul() does not handle negative numbers. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc: Remove old dump_task_* functionsMichael Neuling
Since Roland's ptrace cleanup starting with commit f65255e8d51ecbc6c9eef20d39e0377d19b658ca ("[POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for FP regs"), the dump_task_* functions are no longer being used. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc: Clean up copy_to/from_user for vsx and fprMichael Neuling
This merges and cleans up some of the ugly copy/to from user code which is required for the new fpr and vsx layout in the thread_struct. Also fixes some hard coded buffer sizes and removes a redundant fpr_flush_to_thread. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtimeKumar Gala
To allow for a single kernel image on e500 v1/v2/mc we need to fixup lwsync at runtime. On e500v1/v2 lwsync causes an illop so we need to patch up the code. We default to 'sync' since that is always safe and if the cpu is capable we will replace 'sync' with 'lwsync'. We introduce CPU_FTR_LWSYNC as a way to determine at runtime if this is needed. This flag could be moved elsewhere since we dont really use it for the normal CPU_FTR purpose. Finally we only store the relative offset in the fixup section to keep it as small as possible rather than using a full fixup_entry. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc: Fix building of feature-fixup tests on ppc32Kumar Gala
We need to use PPC_LCMPI otherwise we get compile errors like: arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups-test.S: Assembler messages: arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups-test.S:142: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `cmpdi' arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups-test.S:149: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `cmpdi' arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups-test.S:164: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `cmpdi' Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03powerpc: Fix building of arch/powerpc/mm/mem.o when MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y and ↵Tony Breeds
SPARSEMEM=n Currently the kernel fails to build with the above config options with: CC arch/powerpc/mm/mem.o arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c: In function 'arch_add_memory': arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c:130: error: implicit declaration of function 'create_section_mapping' This explicitly includes asm/sparsemem.h in arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c and moves the guards in include/asm-powerpc/sparsemem.h to protect the SPARSEMEM specific portions only. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Update for VSX core file and ptraceMichael Neuling
This correctly hooks the VSX dump into Roland McGrath core file infrastructure. It adds the VSX dump information as an additional elf note in the core file (after talking more to the tool chain/gdb guys). This also ensures the formats are consistent between signals, ptrace and core files. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Fix compile error for CONFIG_VSXMichael Neuling
Fix compile error when CONFIG_VSX is enabled. arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function 'restore_sigcontext': arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:241: error: 'i' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Explicitly copy elements of pt_regsStephen Rothwell
Gcc 4.3 produced this warning: arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function 'restore_sigcontext': arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:161: warning: array subscript is above array bounds This is caused by us copying to aliases of elements of the pt_regs structure. Make those explicit. This adds one extra __get_user and unrolls a loop. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Remove experimental status of kdump on 64-bit powerpcBernhard Walle
This removes the experimental status of kdump on PPC64. kdump is on PPC64 now since more than one year and it has proven to be stable. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Prevent memory corruption due to cache invalidation of unaligned ↵Andrew Lewis
DMA buffer On PowerPC processors with non-coherent cache architectures the DMA subsystem calls invalidate_dcache_range() before performing a DMA read operation. If the address and length of the DMA buffer are not aligned to a cache-line boundary this can result in memory outside of the DMA buffer being invalidated in the cache. If this memory has an uncommitted store then the data will be lost and a subsequent read of that address will result in an old value being returned from main memory. Only when the DMA buffer starts on a cache-line boundary and is an exact mutiple of the cache-line size can invalidate_dcache_range() be called, otherwise flush_dcache_range() must be called. flush_dcache_range() will first flush uncommitted writes, and then invalidate the cache. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lewis <andrew-lewis at netspace.net.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc/bootwrapper: Pad .dtb by defaultKumar Gala
Since most bootloaders or wrappers tend to update or add some information to the .dtb they a handled they need some working space to do that in. By default add 1K of padding via a default setting of DTS_FLAGS. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add CONFIG_VSX config optionMichael Neuling
Add CONFIG_VSX config build option. Must compile with POWER4, FPU and ALTIVEC. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.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>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add VSX assembler code macrosMichael Neuling
This adds the macros for the VSX load/store instruction as most binutils are not going to support this for a while. Also add VSX register save/restore macros and vsr[0-63] register definitions. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add VSX CPU featureMichael Neuling
Add a VSX CPU feature. Also add code to detect if VSX is available from the device tree. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Introduce VSX thread_struct and CONFIG_VSXMichael Neuling
The layout of the new VSR registers and how they overlap on top of the legacy FPR and VR registers is: VSR doubleword 0 VSR doubleword 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[0] | FPR[0] | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[1] | FPR[1] | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ... | | | ... | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[30] | FPR[30] | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[31] | FPR[31] | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[32] | VR[0] | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[33] | VR[1] | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ... | | ... | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[62] | VR[30] | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSR[63] | VR[31] | ---------------------------------------------------------------- VSX has 64 128bit registers. The first 32 regs overlap with the FP registers and hence extend them with and additional 64 bits. The second 32 regs overlap with the VMX registers. This commit introduces the thread_struct changes required to reflect this register layout. Ptrace and signals code is updated so that the floating point registers are correctly accessed from the thread_struct when CONFIG_VSX is enabled. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Make load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec callableMichael Neuling
Make load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec callable so they can be reused by the VSX code. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Move altivec_unavailableMichael Neuling
Move the altivec_unavailable code, to make room at 0xf40 where the vsx_unavailable exception will be. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add macros to access floating point registers in thread_struct.Michael Neuling
We are going to change where the floating point registers are stored in the thread_struct, so in preparation add some macros to access the floating point registers. Update all code to use these new macros. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Fix MSR setting in 32 bit signal codeMichael Neuling
If we set the SPE MSR bit in save_user_regs we can blow away the VEC bit. This doesn't matter in reality as they are in fact the same bit but looks bad. Also, when we add VSX in a later patch, we need to be able to set two separate MSR bits here. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Change the default link address for pSeries zImage kernelsTony Breeds
Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries. In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to overlapping with OF). Move .text in a zImage from 4MB to 64MB (well past OF). We still will not be able to load large zImage unless we also move OF, to that end, add a note to the zImage ELF to move OF to 32Mb. If this is the very first kernel booted then we'll need to move OF manually by setting real-base. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Use an alternative feature section in entry_64.SMichael Ellerman
Use an alternative feature section in _switch. There are three cases handled here, either we don't have an SLB, in which case we jump over the entire code section, or if we do we either do or don't have 1TB segments. Boot tested on Power3, Power5 and Power5+. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add self-tests of the feature fixup codeMichael Ellerman
This commit adds tests of the feature fixup code, they are run during boot if CONFIG_FTR_FIXUP_SELFTEST=y. Some of the tests manually invoke the patching routines to check their behaviour, and others use the macros and so are patched during the normal patching done during boot. Because we have two sets of macros with different names, we use a macro to generate the test of the macros, very niiiice. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add logic to patch alternative feature sectionsMichael Ellerman
This commit adds the logic to patch alternative sections. This is fairly straightforward, except for branches. Relative branches that jump from inside the else section to outside of it need to be translated as they're moved, otherwise they will jump to the wrong location. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Introduce infrastructure for feature sections with alternativesMichael Ellerman
The current feature section logic only supports nop'ing out code, this means if you want to choose at runtime between instruction sequences, one or both cases will have to execute the nop'ed out contents of the other section, eg: BEGIN_FTR_SECTION or 1,1,1 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FOO) BEGIN_FTR_SECTION or 2,2,2 END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(FOO) and the resulting code will be either, or 1,1,1 nop or, nop or 2,2,2 For small code segments this is fine, but for larger code blocks and in performance criticial code segments, it would be nice to avoid the nops. This commit starts to implement logic to allow the following: BEGIN_FTR_SECTION or 1,1,1 FTR_SECTION_ELSE or 2,2,2 ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(FOO) and the resulting code will be: or 1,1,1 or, or 2,2,2 We achieve this by extending the existing FTR macros. The current feature section semantic just becomes a special case, ie. if the else case is empty we nop out the default case. The key limitation is that the size of the else case must be less than or equal to the size of the default case. If the else case is smaller the remainder of the section is nop'ed. We let the linker put the else case code in with the rest of the text, so that relative branches from the else case are more likley to link, this has the disadvantage that we can't free the unused else cases. This commit introduces the required macro and linker script changes, but does not enable the patching of the alternative sections. We also need to update two hand-made section entries in reg.h and timex.h Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01powerpc: Split out do_feature_fixups() from cputable.cMichael Ellerman
The logic to patch CPU feature sections lives in cputable.c, but these days it's used for CPU features as well as firmware features. Move it into it's own file for neatness and as preparation for some additions. While we're moving the code, we pull the loop body logic into a separate routine, and remove a comment which doesn't apply anymore. 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>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add PPC_NOP_INSTR, a hash define for the preferred nop instructionMichael Ellerman
A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it would be nice to have a #define for it. 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>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add tests of the code patching routinesMichael Ellerman
Add tests of the existing code patching routines, as well as the new routines added in the last commit. The self-tests are run late in boot when CONFIG_CODE_PATCHING_SELFTEST=y, which depends on DEBUG_KERNEL=y. 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>
2008-07-01powerpc: Add new code patching routinesMichael Ellerman
This commit adds some new routines for patching code, which will be used in a following commit. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>