epapr paravirtualization support is now a Kconfig
selectable option
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
[stuart.yoder@freescale.com: misc minor fixes, description update]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This is much the same as for SPARC except that we can do the find_zero()
function more efficiently using the count-leading-zeroes instructions.
Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
and fixes. Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
update.
Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
others are true pulls. In either case the signoffs should be correct
now."
Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.
I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
...
Pull first series of signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is just the first part of the queue (about a half of it);
assorted fixes all over the place in signal handling.
This one ends with all sigsuspend() implementations switched to
generic one (->saved_sigmask-based).
With this, a bunch of assorted old buglets are fixed and most of the
missing bits of NOTIFY_RESUME hookup are in place. Two more fixes sit
in arm and um trees respectively, and there's a couple of broken ones
that need obvious fixes - parisc and avr32 check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
only on one of two codepaths; fixes for that will happen in the next
series"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (55 commits)
unicore32: if there's no handler we need to restore sigmask, syscall or no syscall
xtensa: add handling of TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
microblaze: drop 'oldset' argument of do_notify_resume()
microblaze: handle TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
score: add handling of NOTIFY_RESUME to do_notify_resume()
m68k: add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and handle it.
sparc: kill ancient comment in sparc_sigaction()
h8300: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
frv: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
cris: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
powerpc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
sh: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
sparc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
avr32: struct old_sigaction is never used
m32r: struct old_sigaction is never used
xtensa: xtensa_sigaction doesn't exist
alpha: tidy signal delivery up
score: don't open-code force_sigsegv()
cris: don't open-code force_sigsegv()
blackfin: don't open-code force_sigsegv()
...
Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
arch_dup_task_struct().
It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
(and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."
Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Here are the powerpc goodies for 3.5. Main highlights are:
- Support for the NX crypto engine in Power7+
- A bunch of Anton goodness, including some micro optimization of our
syscall entry on Power7
- I converted a pile of our thermal control drivers to the new i2c
APIs (essentially turning the old therm_pm72 into a proper set of
windfarm drivers). That's one more step toward removing the
deprecated i2c APIs, there's still a few drivers to fix, but we are
getting close
- kexec/kdump support for 47x embedded cores
The big missing thing here is no updates from Freescale. Not sure
what's up here, but with Kumar not working for them anymore things are
a bit in a state of flux in that area."
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (71 commits)
powerpc: Fix irq distribution
Revert "powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags"
powerpc: Fixing a cputhread code documentation
powerpc/crypto: Enable the PFO-based encryption device
powerpc/crypto: Build files for the nx device driver
powerpc/crypto: debugfs routines and docs for the nx device driver
powerpc/crypto: SHA512 hash routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: SHA256 hash routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: AES-XCBC mode routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: AES-GCM mode routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: AES-ECB mode routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: AES-CTR mode routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: AES-CCM mode routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: AES-CBC mode routines for nx encryption
powerpc/crypto: nx driver code supporting nx encryption
powerpc/pseries: Enable the PFO-based RNG accelerator
powerpc/pseries/hwrng: PFO-based hwrng driver
powerpc/pseries: Add PFO support to the VIO bus
powerpc/pseries: Add pseries update notifier for OFDT prop changes
powerpc/pseries: Add new hvcall constants to support PFO
...
setting CONFIG_IRQ_ALL_CPUS distributes IRQs to CPUs only when
the number of online CPUs equals NR_CPUS. See commit
280ff97494 "sparc64: fix and
optimize irq distribution" for more details.
Using the online mask fixes IRQ-to-CPU distribution on systems
that boot with less than NR_CPUS.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This reverts commit 1b788400bb.
It causes oopses when passed incorrect arguments and has a
design fault using IPIs with interrupts disabled.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
guts of saved_sigmask-based sigsuspend/rt_sigsuspend. Takes
kernel sigset_t *.
Open-coded instances replaced with calling it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"New notable features:
- The seccomp work from Will Drewry
- PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS from Andy Lutomirski
- Longer security labels for Smack from Casey Schaufler
- Additional ptrace restriction modes for Yama by Kees Cook"
Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and include/linux/filter.h
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (65 commits)
apparmor: fix long path failure due to disconnected path
apparmor: fix profile lookup for unconfined
ima: fix filename hint to reflect script interpreter name
KEYS: Don't check for NULL key pointer in key_validate()
Smack: allow for significantly longer Smack labels v4
gfp flags for security_inode_alloc()?
Smack: recursive tramsmute
Yama: replace capable() with ns_capable()
TOMOYO: Accept manager programs which do not start with / .
KEYS: Add invalidation support
KEYS: Do LRU discard in full keyrings
KEYS: Permit in-place link replacement in keyring list
KEYS: Perform RCU synchronisation on keys prior to key destruction
KEYS: Announce key type (un)registration
KEYS: Reorganise keys Makefile
KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig
KEYS: Use the compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 compat
Yama: remove an unused variable
samples/seccomp: fix dependencies on arch macros
Yama: add additional ptrace scopes
...
Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and
not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet. I wish I'd had
something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking
horror..."
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and
arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node()
task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines
sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator
score: Use common threadinfo allocator
sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator
mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator
powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
mips: Use common threadinfo allocator
hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator
m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator
frv: Use common threadinfo allocator
cris: Use common threadinfo allocator
x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator
fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator
tile: Use common threadinfo allocator
fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions
fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
fork: Remove the weak insanity
sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait()
...
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.
Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds the cas bits to advertise support for the Platform
Facilities Option (PFO) based encryption accelerator device. The nx
device driver provides support for this hardware feature.
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds the cas bits to advertise support for the Platform
Facilities Option (PFO) based random number generator accerator.
The pseries-rng driver provides support for this hardware feature.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add support for the Platform Facilities Option (PFO) to the VIO bus.
These devices have a separate root node in OpenFirmware which
requires additional parsing to map into the existing VIO device
structure fields. This adds the interface for PFO device drivers to
make synchronous hypervisor calls.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO, PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG and PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG are
PowerPC specific ptrace flags that use the watchpoint register. While they are
targeted primarily towards BookE users, user-space applications such as GDB
have started using them for BookS too. This patch enables the use of generic
hardware breakpoint interfaces for these new flags.
Apart from the usual benefits of using generic hw-breakpoint interfaces, these
changes allow debuggers (such as GDB) to use a common set of ptrace flags for
their watchpoint needs and allow more precise breakpoint specification (length
of the variable can be specified).
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch changes the architecture vector to advertise support for a
lower minimum virtual processor entitled capacity. The default
minimum without this patch is 10%, this patch specifies 1%.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
So we have another case of paca->irq_happened getting out of
sync with the HW irq state. This can happen when a perfmon
interrupt occurs while soft disabled, as it will return to a
soft disabled but hard enabled context while leaving a stale
PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS flag set.
This patch fixes it, and also adds a test for the condition
of those flags being out of sync in arch_local_irq_restore()
when CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS is enabled.
This helps catching those gremlins faster (and so far I
can't seem see any anymore, so that's good news).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Alignment was the last user of the ENABLE_INTS macro, which we can
now remove. All non-syscall exceptions now disable interrupts on
entry, they get re-enabled conditionally from C code. Don't
unconditionally re-enable in program check either, check the
original context.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We had a case where we could turn on hard interrupts while
leaving the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS bit set in the PACA. This can
in turn cause a BUG_ON() to hit in __check_irq_replay() due
to interrupt state getting out of sync.
The assembly code was also way too convoluted. Instead, we
now leave it to the C code to do the right thing which ends
up being smaller and more readable.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The core now has a threadinfo allocator which uses a kmemcache when
THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.059161130@linutronix.de
cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
commit 771dae818 (powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow
switching of idle routines) implemented cpu_idle_wait() for powerpc.
The changelog says:
"The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
but the powerpc implementation is different.":
Unfortunately the changelog is completely useless as it does not tell
_WHY_ it is different.
Aside of being different the implementation is patently wrong.
The rescheduling IPI is async. That means that there is no guarantee,
that the other cores have executed the IPI when cpu_idle_wait()
returns. But that's the whole purpose of this function: to guarantee
that no CPU uses the old idle handler anymore.
Use the smp_functional_call() based implementation, which fulfils the
requirements.
[ This code is going to replaced by a core version to remove all the
pointless copies in arch/*, but this one should go to stable ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Cc: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175651.980164748@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
This is necessary for qemu to be able to pass the right information
to the guest, such as the supported page sizes and corresponding
encodings in the SLB and hash table, which can vary depending
on the processor type, the type of KVM used (PR vs HV) and the
version of KVM
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[agraf: fix compilation on hv, adjust for newer ioctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Time for which the hrtimer is started for decrementer emulation is calculated
using tb_ticks_per_usec. While hrtimer uses the clockevent for DEC
reprogramming (if needed) and which calculate timebase ticks using the
multiplier and shifter mechanism implemented within clockevent layer.
It was observed that this conversion (timebase->time->timebase) are not
correct because the mechanism are not consistent.
In our setup it adds 2% jitter.
With this patch clockevent multiplier and shifter mechanism are used when
starting hrtimer for decrementer emulation. Now the jitter is < 0.5%.
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Merge tag 'v3.4-rc5' into next
Linux 3.4-rc5
Merge to pull in prerequisite change for Smack:
86812bb0de
Requested by Casey.
This patch adds support for creating 1:1 mapping for the PPC_47x during
a KEXEC. The implementation is similar to that of the PPC440x which is
described here :
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/104323/
PPC_47x MMU :
The 47x uses Unified TLB 1024 entries, with 4-way associative mapping
(4 x 256 entries). The index to be used is calculated by the MMU by
hashing the PID, EPN and TS. The software can choose to specify the way
by setting bit 0(enable way select) and the way in bits 1-2 in the TLB
Word 0.
Implementation:
The patch erases all the UTLB entries which includes the tlb covering
the mapping for our code. The shadow TLB caches the mapping for the
running code which helps us to continue the execution until we do
isync/rfi. We then create a tmp mapping for the current code in the
other address space (TS) and switch to it.
Then we create a 1:1 mapping(EPN=RPN) for 0-2GiB in the original
address space and switch to the new mapping.
TODO: Add SMP support.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Initialize the PID register with kernel pid (0) before we start
setting the TLB mapping for KEXEC. Also set the MMUCR[TID] to kernel
PID.
This was spotted while testing the kexec on ISS for 47x. ISS doesn't
return a successful tlbsx for a kernel address with PID set to a user PID.
Though the hardware/qemu/simics work fine.
This patch is harmless and initializes the PID to 0 (kernel PID) which
is usually the case during a normal kernel boot. This would fix the kexec
on ISS for 440. I have tested this patch on sequoia board.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
PowerPC has non standard getregs calls that only dump the GPRs or
FPRs and have their arguments reversed. commit e17666ba48 (ptrace
updates & new, better requests) in 2.6.3 deprecated them and introduced
more standard versions.
It's been about 5 years and I know of no users of the old calls so
lets remove them.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY, the option is badly named and only does two
things:
- It wraps the MMU segment table code. With feature fixups there is
little downside to compiling this in.
- It uses the newer mtocrf instruction in various assembly functions.
Instead of making this a compile option just do it at runtime via
a feature fixup.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add two optimisations to enable_kernel_altivec:
- enable_kernel_altivec has already determined if we need to
save the previous task's state but we call giveup_altivec
in both cases, requiring an extra branch in giveup_altivec. Create
giveup_altivec_notask which only turns on the VMX bit in the
MSR.
- We write the VMX MSR bit each time we call enable_kernel_altivec
even it was already set. Check the bit and branch out if we have
already set it. The classic case for this is vectored IO
where we have to copy multiple buffers to or from userspace.
The following testcase was used to confirm this patch improves
performance:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c
Since the current breakpoint for using VMX in copy_tofrom_user is
4096 bytes, I'm using buffers of 4096 + 1 cacheline (4224) bytes.
A benchmark of 16 entry readvs (-s 16):
time copy_to_user -l 4224 -s 16 -i 1000000
completes 5.2% faster on a POWER7 PS700.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use an empty inline instead of an empty function to implement
giveup_altivec on book3e CPUs, similar to flush_altivec_to_thread.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove all the iseries specific fields in the lppaca.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At the moment system call entry looks like:
crclr so
...
mfcr r9
...
std r9,_CCR(r1)
commit bd19c8994a ([POWERPC] system call micro optimisation) put
some space between the crclr and mfcr in order to avoid a stall.
There is still a stall seen between the mfcr and std. We can avoid
the crclr by doing it in a GPR with rlwinm which gives us more room
to better schedule the sequence.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The count register is volatile so we don't need to preserve it.
Store zero to the entry in the exception frame.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The XER is a volatile register so there is no need to save and restore
it over a system call - zero it out in the exception stack frame
instead.
This should fix a 5 cycle stall of the mfxer/std seen on POWER7.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
syscall_dotrace_cont and syscall_error_cont tend to complicate perf
output so make them local.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The switch from using irq_map to irq_alloc_desc*() for managing irq
number allocations introduced new bugs in some of the powerpc
interrupt code. Several functions rely on the value of NR_IRQS to
determine the maximum irq number that could get allocated. However,
with sparse_irq and using irq_alloc_desc*() the maximum possible irq
number is now specified with 'nr_irqs' which may be a number larger
than NR_IRQS. This has caused breakage on powermac when
CONFIG_NR_IRQS is set to 32.
This patch removes most of the direct references to NR_IRQS in the
powerpc code and replaces them with either a nr_irqs reference or by
using the common for_each_irq_desc() macro. The powerpc-specific
for_each_irq() macro is removed at the same time.
Also, the Cell axon_msi driver is refactored to remove the global
build assumption on the size of NR_IRQS and instead add a limit to the
maximum irq number when calling irq_domain_add_nomap().
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.311212868@linutronix.de
Preparatory patch to make the idle thread allocation for secondary
cpus generic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124556.964170564@linutronix.de
Merge reason: development work has dependency on kvm patches merged
upstream.
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Commit ae3a197e (Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC) broke build of
assembly files when CONFIG_BOOKE_WDT is enabled as follows:
AS arch/powerpc/lib/string.o
/home/baruch/git/stable/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h: Assembler messages:
/home/baruch/git/stable/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h:19: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `extern'
/home/baruch/git/stable/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h:20: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `extern'
Since setup_32.c is the only user of the booke_wdt configuration variables, move
the declarations there.
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
This change is inspired by
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/14
which fixes the build warnings for arches that don't support
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER.
In particular, there is no requirement for the return value of
secure_computing() to be checked unless the architecture supports
seccomp filter. Instead of silencing the warnings with (void)
a new static inline is added to encode the expected behavior
in a compiler and human friendly way.
v2: - cleans things up with a static inline
- removes sfr's signed-off-by since it is a different approach
v1: - matches sfr's original change
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
