The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in
low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu
global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer.
We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers
as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some
of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc..
and the current choice isn't always the best.
This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the
usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement
and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to
what those are used for on each processor family.
The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM
or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all
the SPRGs.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text". Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On machines with more than one exception level any system register that
might be modified by the "normal" exception level needs to be saved and
restored on taking a higher level exception. We already are saving
and restoring ESR and DEAR.
For critical level add SRR0/1.
For debug level add CSRR0/1 and SRR0/1.
For machine check level add DSRR0/1, CSRR0/1, and SRR0/1.
On FSL Book-E parts we always save/restore the MAS registers for critical,
debug, and machine check level exceptions. On 44x we always save/restore
the MMUCR.
Additionally, we save and restore the ksp_limit since we have to adjust it
for each exception level.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
For the additonal exception levels (critical, debug, machine check) on
40x/book-e we were using "static" allocations of the stack in the
associated head.S.
Move to a runtime allocation to make the code a bit easier to read as
we mimic how we handle IRQ stacks. Its also a bit easier to setup the
stack with a "dummy" thread_info in C code.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The size of swapper_pg_dir is 8k instead of 4k when using 64-bit PTEs
(CONFIG_PTE_64BIT).
This was reported by Cedric Hombourger <chombourger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Move to using PAGE_OFFSET instead of TASK_SIZE or KERNELBASE value on
6xx/40x/44x/fsl-booke to determine if the faulting address is a kernel or
user space address. This mimics how the macro is_kernel_addr() works.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
It is just a C char array, so declare it thusly.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We get warnings like the following from the various ppc32 head*.S files:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x358): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:early_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x380): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:machine_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x384): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:MMU_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3aa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3ae): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
Added a .text.head section simliar to what other architectures do since
modpost already excludes this from its warnings.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove inclusion of __res on 40x. We don't need it in arch/powerpc
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add MMU definitions for 40x platforms. Also fixes two warnings in 40x_mmu.c.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
4xx is a bit of a misnomer for certain things, as they really apply to PowerPC
40x only. Rename some of the files to clean this up.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2007-08-20 07:27:07 -05:00
Renamed from arch/powerpc/kernel/head_4xx.S (Browse further)
