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Chris Metcalf
dbcb4a1a3f arch/tile: add hypervisor-based character driver for SPI flash ROM
The first version of this patch proposed an arch/tile/drivers/ directory,
but the consensus was that this was probably a poor choice for a place to
group Tilera-specific drivers, and that in any case grouping by platform
was discouraged, and grouping by function was preferred.

This version of the patch addresses various issues raised in the
community, primarily the absence of sysfs integration.  The sysfs
integration now handles passing information on sector size, page size,
and total partition size to userspace as well.  In addition, we now
use a single "struct cdev" to manage all the partition minor devices,
and dynamically discover the correct number of partitions from the
hypervisor rather than using a module_param with a default value.

This driver has no particular "peer" drivers it can be grouped with.
It is sort of like an MTD driver for SPI ROM, but it doesn't group well
with the other MTD devices since it relies on hypervisor virtualization
to handle many of the irritating aspects of flash ROM management: sector
awareness, background read for sub-sector writes, bit examination to
determine whether a sector erase needs to be issued, etc.  It is in fact
more like an EEPROM driver, but the hypervisor virtualization does require
a "flush" command if you wish to commit a sector write prior to writing
to a different sector, and this is sufficiently different from generic
I2C/SPI EEPROMs that as a result it doesn't group well with them either.

The simple character device is already in use by a range of Tilera
SPI ROM management tools, as well as by customers.  In addition, using
the simple character device actually simplifies the userspace tools,
since they don't need to manage sector erase, background read, etc.
This both simplifies the code (since we can uniformly manage plain files
and the SPI ROM) as well as makes the user code portable to non-Linux
platforms that don't offer the same MTD ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-06-10 13:07:48 -04:00
Chris Metcalf
5386e73589 arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
User space code has been able to discover the static page size
by including a special <hv/pagesize.h> file.  In the current release,
that file is now gone, and <asm/page.h> doesn't rely on it.  The
getpagesize() API is now the only way for userspace to get the page size.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-05-04 14:41:13 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Chris Metcalf
5c77075548 drivers/edac: provide support for tile architecture
Add tile support for the EDAC driver, which provides unified system
error (memory, PCI, etc.) reporting. For now, the TILEPro port
reports memory correctable error (CE) only.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-03-10 13:30:14 -05:00
Chris Metcalf
1337173148 arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better
The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor
service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented
very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this
out natively and not use a hypervisor service.

By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the
cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits:
first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use
less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while
we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by
exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-03-01 16:20:04 -05:00
Chris Metcalf
e5a0693973 drivers/net/tile/: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture
This change adds the first network driver for the tile architecture,
supporting the on-chip XGBE and GBE shims.

The infrastructure is present for the TILE-Gx networking drivers (another
three source files in the new directory) but for now the the actual
tilegx sources are waiting on releasing hardware to initial customers.

Note that arch/tile/include/hv/* are "upstream" headers from the
Tilera hypervisor and will probably benefit less from LKML review.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2010-11-24 13:11:18 -05:00
Chris Metcalf
a78c942df6 arch/tile: parameterize system PLs to support KVM port
While not a port to KVM (yet), this change modifies the kernel
to be able to build either at PL1 or at PL2 with a suitable
config switch.  Pushing up this change avoids handling branch
merge issues going forward with the KVM work.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2010-10-15 15:38:09 -04:00
Chris Metcalf
c745a8a11f arch/tile: Various cleanups.
This change rolls up random cleanups not representing any actual bugs.

- Remove a stale CONFIG_ value from the default tile_defconfig
- Remove unused tns_atomic_xxx() family of methods from <asm/atomic.h>
- Optimize get_order() using Tile's "clz" instruction
- Fix a bad hypervisor upcall name (not currently used in Linux anyway)
- Use __copy_in_user_inatomic() name for consistency, and export it
- Export some additional hypervisor driver I/O upcalls and some homecache calls
- Remove the obfuscating MEMCPY_TEST_WH64 support code
- Other stray comment cleanups, #if 0 removal, etc.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2010-08-13 08:52:19 -04:00
Chris Metcalf
ef06f55a5c arch/tile: catch up on various minor cleanups.
None of these changes fix any actual bugs, but are just various cleanups
that fell out along the way.  In particular, some unused #defines and
includes are removed, PREFETCH_STRIDE is added (the default is right for
our shipping chips, but wrong for our next generation), our tile-specific
prefetching code is removed so the (identical) generic prefetching code
can be used instead, a comment is fixed to be proper GPL and not just a
"paste GPL here" token, a "//" comment is converted to "/* */", etc.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-07-06 13:42:15 -04:00
Chris Metcalf
fb702b942b arch/tile: Enable more sophisticated IRQ model for 32-bit chips.
This model is based on the on-chip interrupt model used by the
TILE-Gx next-generation hardware, and interacts much more cleanly
with the Linux generic IRQ layer.

The change includes modifications to the Tilera hypervisor, which
are reflected in the hypervisor headers in arch/tile/include/arch/.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-06 13:34:01 -04:00
Chris Metcalf
867e359b97 arch/tile: core support for Tilera 32-bit chips.
This change is the core kernel support for TILEPro and TILE64 chips.
No driver support (except the console driver) is included yet.

This includes the relevant Linux headers in asm/; the low-level
low-level "Tile architecture" headers in arch/, which are
shared with the hypervisor, etc., and are build-system agnostic;
and the relevant hypervisor headers in hv/.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-06-04 17:11:18 -04:00