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2010-08-24powerpc: Inline ppc64_runlatch_offAnton Blanchard
I'm sick of seeing ppc64_runlatch_off in our profiles, so inline it into the callers. To avoid a mess of circular includes I didn't add it as an inline function. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-08-24powerpc: Use is_32bit_task() helper to test 32 bit binaryDenis Kirjanov
Use is_32bit_task() helper to test 32 bit binary. Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-08-17Make do_execve() take a const filename pointerDavid Howells
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-13Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being constDavid Howells
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but aren't. The list includes: (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes syscalls and some mount syscalls. (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above. (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits) sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug sched: No need for bootmem special cases sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus sched: Fix spelling of sibling sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check() sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand() sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy sched: Fix fix_small_capacity powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4 sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model ...
2010-07-21Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-09powerpc/book3e: Hack to get gdb moving along on Book3E 64-bitBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Our handling of debug interrupts on Book3E 64-bit is not quite the way it should be just yet. This is a workaround to let gdb work at least for now. We ensure that when context switching, we set the appropriate DBCR0 value for the new task. We also make sure that we turn off MSR[DE] within the kernel, and set it as part of the bits that get set when going back to userspace. In the long run, we will probably set the userspace DBCR0 on the exception exit code path and ensure we have some proper kernel value to set on the way into the kernel, a bit like ppc32 does, but that will take more work. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-07-09Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-29sched: Fix spelling of siblingMichael Neuling
No logic changes, only spelling. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <15249.1277776921@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-22powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processorsK.Prasad
Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC 64-bit server (Book III S) processors. This allows access to a given location to be used as an event that can be counted or profiled by the perf_events subsystem. This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can also be used for process debugging via ptrace. When perf_event hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint. [Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to - emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the per-task breakpoints - perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() ] Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-06-15powerpc: Unconditionally enabled irq stacksChristoph Hellwig
Irq stacks provide an essential protection from stack overflows through external interrupts, at the cost of two additionals stacks per CPU. Enable them unconditionally to simplify the kernel build and prevent people from accidentally disabling them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-06-09powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UPPeter Zijlstra
Only SMP systems care about load-balance features, plus this saves some .text space on UP and also fixes the build. Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> LKML-Reference: <tip-76cbd8a8f8b0dddbff89a6708bd5bd13c0d21a00@git.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7Michael Neuling
The POWER7 core has dynamic SMT mode switching which is controlled by the hypervisor. There are 3 SMT modes: SMT1 uses thread 0 SMT2 uses threads 0 & 1 SMT4 uses threads 0, 1, 2 & 3 When in any particular SMT mode, all threads have the same performance as each other (ie. at any moment in time, all threads perform the same). The SMT mode switching works such that when linux has threads 2 & 3 idle and 0 & 1 active, it will cede (H_CEDE hypercall) threads 2 and 3 in the idle loop and the hypervisor will automatically switch to SMT2 for that core (independent of other cores). The opposite is not true, so if threads 0 & 1 are idle and 2 & 3 are active, we will stay in SMT4 mode. Similarly if thread 0 is active and threads 1, 2 & 3 are idle, we'll go into SMT1 mode. If we can get the core into a lower SMT mode (SMT1 is best), the threads will perform better (since they share less core resources). Hence when we have idle threads, we want them to be the higher ones. This adds a feature bit for asymmetric packing to powerpc and then enables it on POWER7. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.31FB5CC8C7@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-05powerpc/476: Add isync after loading mmu and debug spr'sDave Kleikamp
476 requires an isync after loading MMU and debug related SPR's. Some of these are in performance-critical paths and may need to be optimized, but initially, we're playing it safe. Signed-off-by: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-02-17powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registersDave Kleikamp
powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registers From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Based on patches originally written by Torez Smith. This patch defines context switch and trap related functionality for BookE specific Debug Registers. It adds support to ptrace() for setting and getting BookE related Debug Registers Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@br.ibm.com> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev list <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-02-17powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registersDave Kleikamp
powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Introduce new config options to simplify the ifdefs pertaining to the advanced debug registers for booke and 40x processors: CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS - boolean: true for dac-based processors CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS - number of IAC registers CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS - number of DAC registers CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS - number of DVC registers CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE - DAC ranges supported Beginning conservatively, since I only have the facilities to test 440 hardware. I believe all 40x and booke platforms support at least 2 IAC and 2 DAC registers. For 440, 4 IAC and 2 DVC registers are enabled, as well as the DAC ranges. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-02-01powerpc: TIF_ABI_PENDING bit removalAndreas Schwab
Here are the powerpc bits to remove TIF_ABI_PENDING now that set_personality() is called at the appropriate place in exec. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-27powerpc: Fix compile errors found by new ppc64e_defconfigKumar Gala
Fix the following 3 issues: arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c: In function 'arch_randomize_brk': arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: 'mmu_highuser_ssize' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: for each function it appears in.) arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: 'MMU_SEGSIZE_1T' undeclared (first use in this function) In file included from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c:60: arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:132: error: redefinition of 'struct mmu_psize_def' arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:159: error: expected identifier or '(' before numeric constant arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:396: error: conflicting types for 'mm_context_t' arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-book3e.h:184: error: previous declaration of 'mm_context_t' was here cc1: warnings being treated as errors arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c: In function 'pcibios_unmap_io_space': arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c:100: error: unused variable 'res' Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-13powerpc/ftrace: show real return addresses in modulesSteven Rostedt
When the function graph tracer is enabled, it replaces the return address with a hook back to the tracer. This makes back traces see the hook instead of the actual return address. The current code also shows the real address by checking if the return address jumps to the return_to_handler. If it is, is also prints out the saved real return address. On powerpc64, some modules may return to mod_return_to_handler, which is not checked. This patch will also show the real address if a return is to mod_return_to_handler as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-24powerpc: Move 64bit heap above 1TB on machines with 1TB segmentsAnton Blanchard
If we are using 1TB segments and we are allowed to randomise the heap, we can put it above 1TB so it is backed by a 1TB segment. Otherwise the heap will be in the bottom 1TB which always uses 256MB segments and this may result in a performance penalty. This functionality is disabled when heap randomisation is turned off: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space which may be useful when trying to allocate the maximum amount of 16M or 16G pages. On a microbenchmark that repeatedly touches 32GB of memory with a stride of 256MB + 4kB (designed to stress 256MB segments while still mapping nicely into the L1 cache), we see the improvement: Force malloc to use heap all the time: # export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0 MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=-1 Disable heap randomization: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space # time ./test 12.51s Enable heap randomization: # echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space # time ./test 1.70s Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-09-11powerpc/booke: Don't set DABR on 64-bit BookE, use DAC1 insteadBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Also remove a duplicate setting of it in the context switch path on BookE. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20powerpc: Clean ifdef usage in copy_thread()Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Currently, a single ifdef covers SLB related bits and more generic ppc64 related bits, split this in two separate ifdef's since 64-bit BookE will need one but not the other. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-26powerpc: Fix output from show_regsKumar Gala
For some reason we've had an explicit KERN_INFO for GPR dumps. With recent changes we get output like: <6>GPR00: 00000000 ef855eb0 ef858000 00000001 000000d0 f1000000 ffbc8000 ffffffff The KERN_INFO is causing the <6>. Don't see any reason to keep it around. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-09powerpc: Shield code specific to 64-bit server processorsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This is a random collection of added ifdef's around portions of code that only mak sense on server processors. Using either CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 or CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S as seems appropriate. This is meant to make the future merging of Book3E 64-bit support easier. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-04-02Simplify copy_thread()Alexey Dobriyan
First argument unused since 2.3.11. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Randomise PIEsAnton Blanchard
Randomise ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, which is used when loading position independent executables. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Randomise the brk regionAnton Blanchard
Randomize the heap. before: tundro2:~ # sleep 1 & cat /proc/${!}/maps | grep heap 10017000-10118000 rw-p 10017000 00:00 0 [heap] 10017000-10118000 rw-p 10017000 00:00 0 [heap] 10017000-10118000 rw-p 10017000 00:00 0 [heap] 10017000-10118000 rw-p 10017000 00:00 0 [heap] 10017000-10118000 rw-p 10017000 00:00 0 [heap] after tundro2:~ # sleep 1 & cat /proc/${!}/maps | grep heap 19419000-1951a000 rw-p 19419000 00:00 0 [heap] 325ff000-32700000 rw-p 325ff000 00:00 0 [heap] 1a97c000-1aa7d000 rw-p 1a97c000 00:00 0 [heap] 1cc60000-1cd61000 rw-p 1cc60000 00:00 0 [heap] 1afa9000-1b0aa000 rw-p 1afa9000 00:00 0 [heap] Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Randomise lower bits of stack addressAnton Blanchard
Randomise the lower bits of the stack address. More randomisation is good for security but the scatter can also help with SMT threads that share an L1. A quick test case shows this working: int main() { int sp; printf("%x\n", (unsigned long)&sp & 4095); } before: 80 80 80 80 80 after: 610 490 300 6b0 d80 Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23powerpc64: port of the function graph tracerSteven Rostedt
This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by Frederic Weisbecker for the x86. This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing. PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later. The trace produces a visual calling of functions: # tracer: function_graph # # CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS # | | | | | | | 0) 2.224 us | } 0) ! 271.024 us | } 0) ! 320.080 us | } 0) ! 324.656 us | } 0) ! 329.136 us | } 0) | .put_prev_task_fair() { 0) | .update_curr() { 0) 2.240 us | .update_min_vruntime(); 0) 6.512 us | } 0) 2.528 us | .__enqueue_entity(); 0) + 15.536 us | } 0) | .pick_next_task_fair() { 0) 2.032 us | .__pick_next_entity(); 0) 2.064 us | .__clear_buddies(); 0) | .set_next_entity() { 0) 2.672 us | .__dequeue_entity(); 0) 6.864 us | } Geoff Lavand tested on PS3. Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-12-31[PATCH] idle cputime accountingMartin Schwidefsky
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time. The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time instead of just testing for the idle process. To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu. In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process. This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle time. This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-03powerpc: Allow the max stack trace depth to be configuredJohannes Berg
On my screen, when something crashes, I only have space for maybe 16 functions of the stack trace before the information above it scrolls off the screen. It's easy to hack the kernel to print out only that much, but it's harder to remember to do it. This introduces a config option for it so that I can keep the setting in my config. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-03powerpc: Add MSR[CE, DE] to the MSR bits we print on show_regs()Kumar Gala
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-08-04powerpc: Remove use of CONFIG_PPC_MERGEKumar Gala
Now that arch/ppc is gone and CONFIG_PPC_MERGE is always set, remove the dead code associated with !CONFIG_PPC_MERGE from arch/powerpc and include/asm-powerpc. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-28powerpc/booke: Clean up the hardware watchpoint supportKumar Gala
* CONFIG_BOOKE is selected by CONFIG_44x so we dont need both * Fixed a few comments * Go back to only using DBCR0_IDM to determine if we are using debug resources. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-25powerpc: BookE hardware watchpoint supportLuis Machado
This patch implements support for HW based watchpoint via the DBSR_DAC (Data Address Compare) facility of the BookE processors. It does so by interfacing with the existing DABR breakpoint code and adding the necessary bits and pieces for the new bits to be properly set or cleared Signed-off-by: Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-15powerpc: fix giveup_vsx to save registers correctlyMichael Neuling
giveup_vsx didn't save the FPU and VMX regsiters. Change it to be like giveup_fpr/altivec which save these registers. Also update call sites where FPU and VMX are already saved to use the original giveup_vsx (renamed to __giveup_vsx). Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> 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>
2008-07-03powerpc: 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>
2008-07-01powerpc: 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: 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 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>
2008-04-29[POWERPC] Add IRQSTACKS support on ppc32Kumar Gala
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>
2008-04-24[POWERPC] Fix kernel stack allocation alignmentBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The powerpc kernel stacks need to be naturally aligned, as they contain the thread info at the bottom, which is obtained by clearing the low bits of the stack pointer. However, when using 64K pages, the stack is smaller than a page, so we use kmalloc to allocate it, but that doesn't provide the alignment guarantee we need. It appeared to work so far... until one enables SLUB debugging which then returns unaligned pointers. Ooops... This fixes it by using a slab cache with enforced alignment. It relies on my previous patch that adds a thread_info_cache_init() callback. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-18[POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common headerBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This moves various definitions used all over the place to parse stack frames to ptrace.h so only one definition is needed. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-14Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2008-03-28[POWERPC] Fix missed hardware breakpoints across multiple threadsMichael Ellerman
There is a bug in the powerpc DABR (data access breakpoint) handling, which can result in us missing breakpoints if several threads are trying to break on the same address. The circumstances are that do_page_fault() calls do_dabr(), this clears the DABR (sets it to 0) and sets up the signal which will report to userspace that the DABR was hit. The do_signal() code will restore the DABR value on the way out to userspace. If we reschedule before calling do_signal(), __switch_to() will check the cached DABR value and compare it to the new thread's value, if they match we don't set the DABR in hardware. So if two threads have the same DABR value, and we schedule from one to the other after taking the interrupt for the first thread hitting the DABR, the second thread will run without the DABR set in hardware. The cleanest fix is to move the cache update into set_dabr(), that way we can't forget to do it. Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Don't touch PT_DTRACE in execRoland McGrath
The PT_DTRACE flag is meaningless and obsolete. Don't touch it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-20[POWERPC] Fix PMU + soft interrupt disable bugAnton Blanchard
Since the PMU is an NMI now, it can come at any time we are only soft disabled. We must hard disable around the two places we allow the kernel stack SLB and r1 to go out of sync. Otherwise the PMU exception can force a kernel stack SLB into another slot, which can lead to it getting evicted, which can lead to a nasty unrecoverable SLB miss in the exception entry code. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-02-14[POWERPC] Fix DEBUG_PREEMPT warning when warningHugh Dickins
The powerpc show_regs prints CPU using smp_processor_id: change that to raw_smp_processor_id, so that when it's showing a WARN_ON backtrace without preemption disabled, DEBUG_PREEMPT doesn't mess up that warning with its own. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>