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2012-07-10powerpc: Introduce new ___PPC_RA/B/S/T macrosMichael Neuling
These are currently the same as __PPC_RA/B/S/T but we'll wrap them soon. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Fix VSX macros so register names aren't wrappedMichael Neuling
We need to do this so we can enforce the name of a and b in called macros PPC_RA/B later. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Fixes for instructions not using correct register namingMichael Neuling
These macros are using integers where they could be using logical names since they take registers. We are going to enforce this soon, so fix these up now. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Change LOAD_REG_ADDR to use real register namesMichael Neuling
LOAD_REG_ADDR define is just a wrapper around real instructions so we can just use real register names here (ie. lower case). Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Change mtcrf to use real register namesMichael Neuling
mtocrf define is just a wrapper around the real instructions so we can just use real register names here (ie. lower case). Also remove braces in macro so this is possible. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Move and fix MTMSR_EERI definitionBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Move this duplicated definition to ppc_asm.h and remove the braces which prevent the use of %rN register names Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Merge VCPU_GPRMichael Neuling
Merge the defines of VCPU_GPR from different places. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Merge STK_REG/PARAM/FRAMESIZEMichael Neuling
Merge the defines of STACKFRAMESIZE, STK_REG, STK_PARAM from different places. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc/pasemi: Move lbz/stbciz to ppc-opcode.hMichael Neuling
move lbz/stbciz to ppc-opcode.h. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Convert to %r for all GPR usageMichael Neuling
Now all the fixes are in place, let's rock-n-roll! Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Fix usage of register macros getting ready for %r0 changeMichael Neuling
Anything that uses a constructed instruction (ie. from ppc-opcode.h), need to use the new R0 macro, as %r0 is not going to work. Also convert usages of macros where we are just determining an offset (usually for a load/store), like: std r14,STK_REG(r14)(r1) Can't use STK_REG(r14) as %r14 doesn't work in the STK_REG macro since it's just calculating an offset. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Modify macro ready for %r0 register changeMichael Neuling
The assembler doesn't take %r0 register arguments in braces, so remove them. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Add defines for R0-R31Michael Neuling
We are going to use these later and convert r0 to %r0 etc. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10Merge branch 'merge' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
We want to bring in the latest IRQ fixes
2012-07-10powerpc/numa: Avoid stupid uninitialized warning from gccBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Newer gcc are being a bit blind here (it's pretty obvious we don't reach the code path using the array if we haven't initialized the pointer) but none of that is performance critical so let's just silence it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10powerpc: Fix build of some debug irq codeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
There was a typo, checking for CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAG instead of CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS causing some useful debug code to not be built This in turns causes a build error on BookE 64-bit due to incorrect semicolons at the end of a couple of macros, so let's fix that too Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.4]
2012-07-10powerpc: More fixes for lazy IRQ vs. idleBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Looks like we still have issues with pSeries and Cell idle code vs. the lazy irq state. In fact, the reset fixes that went upstream are exposing the problem more by causing BUG_ON() to trigger (which this patch turns into a WARN_ON instead). We need to be careful when using a variant of low power state that has the side effect of turning interrupts back on, to properly set all the SW & lazy state to look as if everything is enabled before we enter the low power state with MSR:EE off as we will return with MSR:EE on. If not, we have a discrepancy of state which can cause things to go very wrong later on. This patch moves the logic into a helper and uses it from the pseries and cell idle code. The power4/970 idle code already got things right (in assembly even !) so I'm not touching it. The power7 "bare metal" idle code is subtly different and correct. Remains PA6T and some hypervisor based Cell platforms which have questionable code in there, but they are mostly dead platforms so I'll fix them when I manage to get final answers from the respective maintainers about how the low power state actually works on them. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.4]
2012-07-06devicetree: add helper inline for retrieving a node's full nameGrant Likely
The pattern (np ? np->full_name : "<none>") is rather common in the kernel, but can also make for quite long lines. This patch adds a new inline function, of_node_full_name() so that the test for a valid node pointer doesn't need to be open coded at all call sites. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
2012-07-05Merge branch 'pci/myron-pcibios_setup' into nextBjorn Helgaas
* pci/myron-pcibios_setup: xtensa/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() x86/PCI: adjust section annotations for pcibios_setup() unicore32/PCI: adjust section annotations for pcibios_setup() tile/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() sparc/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() sh/PCI: adjust section annotations for pcibios_setup() sh/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() powerpc/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() parisc/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() MIPS/PCI: adjust section annotations for pcibios_setup() MIPS/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() microblaze/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() ia64/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() cris/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() alpha/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup() PCI: pull pcibios_setup() up into core
2012-07-05powerpc/PCI: factor out pcibios_setup()Myron Stowe
The PCI core provides a generic pcibios_setup() routine. Drop this architecture-specific version in favor of that. Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2012-07-03powerpc/mm: remove obsolete comment about page size name arrayScott Wood
The array of names in hugetlbpage.c no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Kill flatdevtree_env.h tooPaul Bolle
Commit 430b01e8f5e524a2bfa50074d97d0bdc2505807b ("[POWERPC] Kill flatdevtree.c") killed the two files including flatdevtree_env.h. It was apparently just an oversight to not kill that header too. Kill it now. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Fix kernel-doc warningWanpeng Li
Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_of_scan.c:210): Excess function parameter 'node' description in 'of_scan_pci_bridge' Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c:636): No description found for parameter 'desired' Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c:636): Excess function parameter 'new_desired' description in 'vio_cmo_set_dev_desired' Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c:1270): No description found for parameter 'viodrv' Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c:1270): Excess function parameter 'drv' description in '__vio_register_driver' Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c:1289): No description found for parameter 'viodrv' Warning(arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c:1289): Excess function parameter 'driver' description in 'vio_unregister_driver' Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Fix assmption of end_of_DRAM() returns end addressBharat Bhushan
memblock_end_of_DRAM() returns end_address + 1, not end address. While some code assumes that it returns end address. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Optimise the 64bit optimised __clear_userAnton Blanchard
I blame Mikey for this. He elevated my slightly dubious testcase: to benchmark status. And naturally we need to be number 1 at creating zeros. So lets improve __clear_user some more. As Paul suggests we can use dcbz for large lengths. This patch gets the destination cacheline aligned then uses dcbz on whole cachelines. Before: 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.414744 s, 25.3 GB/s After: 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.268597 s, 39.0 GB/s 39 GB/s, a new record. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/iommu: Implement IOMMU pools to improve multiqueue adapter performanceAnton Blanchard
At the moment all queues in a multiqueue adapter will serialise against the IOMMU table lock. This is proving to be a big issue, especially with 10Gbit ethernet. This patch creates 4 pools and tries to spread the load across them. If the table is under 1GB in size we revert back to the original behaviour of 1 pool and 1 largealloc pool. We create a hash to map CPUs to pools. Since we prefer interrupts to be affinitised to primary CPUs, without some form of hashing we are very likely to end up using the same pool. As an example, POWER7 has 4 way SMT and with 4 pools all primary threads will map to the same pool. The largealloc pool is reduced from 1/2 to 1/4 of the space to partially offset the overhead of breaking the table up into pools. Some performance numbers were obtained with a Chelsio T3 adapter on two POWER7 boxes, running a 100 session TCP round robin test. Performance improved 69% with this patch applied. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/iommu: Push spinlock into iommu_range_alloc and __iommu_freeAnton Blanchard
In preparation for IOMMU pools, push the spinlock into iommu_range_alloc and __iommu_free. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/iommu: Reduce spinlock coverage in iommu_freeAnton Blanchard
This patch moves tce_free outside of the lock in iommu_free. Some performance numbers were obtained with a Chelsio T3 adapter on two POWER7 boxes, running a 100 session TCP round robin test. Performance improved 25% with this patch applied. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/iommu: Reduce spinlock coverage in iommu_alloc and iommu_freeAnton Blanchard
We currently hold the IOMMU spinlock around tce_build and tce_flush. This causes our spinlock hold times to be much higher than required and can impact multiqueue adapters. This patch moves tce_build and tce_flush outside of the lock in iommu_alloc, and tce_flush outside of the lock in iommu_free. Some performance numbers were obtained with a Chelsio T3 adapter on two POWER7 boxes, running a 100 session TCP round robin test. Performance improved 32% with this patch applied. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/pseries: Disable interrupts around IOMMU percpu data accessesAnton Blanchard
tce_buildmulti_pSeriesLP uses a per cpu page to communicate with the hypervisor. We currently rely on the IOMMU table spinlock but subsequent patches will be removing that so disable interrupts around all accesses of tce_page. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: POWER7 optimised memcpy using VMX and enhanced prefetchAnton Blanchard
Implement a POWER7 optimised memcpy using VMX and enhanced prefetch instructions. This is a copy of the POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user loop. Detailed implementation and performance details can be found in commit a66086b8197d (powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX). I noticed memcpy issues when profiling a RAID6 workload: .memcpy .async_memcpy .async_copy_data .__raid_run_ops .handle_stripe .raid5d .md_thread I created a simplified testcase by building a RAID6 array with 4 1GB ramdisks (booting with brd.rd_size=1048576): # mdadm -CR -e 1.2 /dev/md0 --level=6 -n4 /dev/ram[0-3] I then timed how long it took to write to the entire array: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1M Before: 892 MB/s After: 999 MB/s A 12% improvement. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Use enhanced touch instructions in POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_userAnton Blanchard
Version 2.06 of the POWER ISA introduced enhanced touch instructions, allowing us to specify a number of attributes including the length of a stream. This patch adds a software stream for both loads and stores in the POWER7 copy_tofrom_user loop. Since the setup is quite complicated and we have to use an eieio to ensure correct ordering of the "GO" command we only do this for copies above 4kB. To quantify any performance improvements we need a working set bigger than the caches so we operate on a 1GB file: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1024 And we compare how fast we can read the file: # dd if=/tmp/foo of=/dev/null bs=1M before: 7.7 GB/s after: 9.6 GB/s A 25% improvement. The worst case for this patch will be a completely L1 cache contained copy of just over 4kB. We can test this with the copy_to_user testcase we used to tune copy_tofrom_user originally: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c # time ./copy_to_user2 -l 4224 -i 10000000 before: 6.807 s after: 6.946 s A 2% slowdown, which seems reasonable considering our data is unlikely to be completely L1 contained. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/pci: cleanup on duplicate assignmentGavin Shan
While creating the PCI root bus through function pci_create_root_bus() of PCI core, it should have assigned the secondary bus number for the newly created PCI root bus. Thus we needn't do the explicit assignment for the secondary bus number again in pcibios_scan_phb(). Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/numa: Fix OF node refcounting bugGavin Shan
The form affinity for NUMA is set to 1 if the firmware supports OPAL. Otherwise, we have to retrieve that from OF node "/chosen". For the latter case, OF node "/chosen" reference count was never decreased. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_page using VMX and enhanced prefetchAnton Blanchard
Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_page using VMX and enhanced prefetch instructions. We use enhanced prefetch hints to prefetch both the load and store side. We copy a cacheline at a time and fall back to regular loads and stores if we are unable to use VMX (eg we are in an interrupt). The following microbenchmark was used to assess the impact of the patch: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/page_fault_file.c We test MAP_PRIVATE page faults across a 1GB file, 100 times: # time ./page_fault_file -p -l 1G -i 100 Before: 22.25s After: 18.89s 17% faster Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Rename copyuser_power7_vmx.c to vmx-helper.cAnton Blanchard
Subsequent patches will add more VMX library functions and it makes sense to keep all the c-code helper functions in the one file. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Clear RI and EE at the same time in system call exitAnton Blanchard
mtmsrd is an expensive instruction, we save a few cycles by doing it once instead of twice. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Use enhanced touch instructions in POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_userAnton Blanchard
Version 2.06 of the POWER ISA introduced enhanced touch instructions, allowing us to specify a number of attributes including the length of a stream. This patch adds a software stream for both loads and stores in the POWER7 copy_tofrom_user loop. Since the setup is quite complicated and we have to use an eieio to ensure correct ordering of the "GO" command we only do this for copies above 4kB. To quantify any performance improvements we need a working set bigger than the caches so we operate on a 1GB file: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1024 And we compare how fast we can read the file: # dd if=/tmp/foo of=/dev/null bs=1M before: 7.7 GB/s after: 9.6 GB/s A 25% improvement. The worst case for this patch will be a completely L1 cache contained copy of just over 4kB. We can test this with the copy_to_user testcase we used to tune copy_tofrom_user originally: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c # time ./copy_to_user2 -l 4224 -i 10000000 before: 6.807 s after: 6.946 s A 2% slowdown, which seems reasonable considering our data is unlikely to be completely L1 contained. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/smp: remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock()Yong Zhang
1) call_function.lock used in smp_call_function_many() is just to protect call_function.queue and &data->refs, cpu_online_mask is outside of the lock. And it's not necessary to protect cpu_online_mask, because data->cpumask is pre-calculate and even if a cpu is brougt up when calling arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), it's harmless because validation test in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() will take care of it. 2) For cpu down issue, stop_machine() will guarantee that no concurrent smp_call_fuction() is processing. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: 64bit optimised __clear_userAnton Blanchard
I noticed __clear_user high up in a profile of one of my RAID stress tests. The testcase was doing a dd from /dev/zero which ends up calling __clear_user. __clear_user is basically a loop with a single 4 byte store which is horribly slow. We can do much better by aligning the desination and doing 32 bytes of 8 byte stores in a loop. The following testcase was used to verify the patch: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/stress_clear_user.c To show the improvement in performance I ran a dd from /dev/zero to /dev/null on a POWER7 box: Before: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10000 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 3.72379 s, 2.8 GB/s After: # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10000 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.728318 s, 14.4 GB/s Over 5x faster. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: tracing: Avoid tracepoint duplication with DECLARE_EVENT_CLASSAnton Blanchard
irq_entry, irq_exit, timer_interrupt_entry and timer_interrupt_exit all do the same thing so use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to avoid duplicating everything 4 times. This saves quite a lot of space in both instruction text and data: text data bss dec hex filename 9265 19622 16 28903 70e7 arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.o 6817 19019 16 25852 64fc arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.o Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Enable jump label supportAnton Blanchard
When looking through some instruction traces I noticed our tracepoint checks were inline. It turns out we don't have CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL enabled. By enabling CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL we replace a load/compare/branch with a nop at every tracepoint call. For example in do_IRQ: CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL disabled: stdx 3,11,9 lwz 0,8(29) cmpwi 7,0,0 bne- 7,.L124 bl .irq_enter CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL enabled: stdx 3,11,9 nop bl .irq_enter Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Replace pseries_notify_cpuidle_add call with notifierDeepthi Dharwar
The following patch is to remove the pseries_notify_add_cpu() call and replace it by a hot plug notifier. This would prevent cpuidle resources being released and allocated each time cpu comes online on pseries. The earlier design was causing a lockdep problem in start_secondary as reported on this thread -https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/2 This applies on 3.4-rc7 Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/pseries/iommu: remove default window before attempting DDW manipulationNishanth Aravamudan
An upcoming release of firmware will add DDW extensions, in particular an API to "reset" the DMA window to the original configuration (32-bit, 2GB in size). With that API available, we can safely remove the default window, increasing the resources available to firmware for creation of larger windows for the slot in question -- if we encounter an error, we can use the new API to reset the state of the slot. Further, this same release of firmware will make it a hard requirement for OSes to release the existing window before any other windows will be shown as available, to avoid conflicts in addressing between the two windows. In anticipation of these changes, always remove the default window before we do any DDW manipulations. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/ftrace: Use patch_instruction instead of probe_kernel_write()Steven Rostedt
The patch_instruction() interface is made to modify kernel text. It is safer to use that then the probe_kernel_write() when modifying kernel code. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc: Have patch_instruction detect faultsSteven Rostedt
For ftrace to use the patch_instruction code, it needs to check for faults on write. Ftrace updates code all over the kernel, and we need to know if code is updated or not due to protections that are placed on some portions of the kernel. If ftrace does not detect a fault, it will error later on, and it will be much more difficult to find the problem. By changing patch_instruction() to detect faults, then ftrace will be able to make use of it too. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/ftrace: Have PPC skip updating with stop_machine()Steven Rostedt
PowerPC does not have the synchronization issues that x86 has with modifying code on one CPU while another CPU is executing it. The other CPU will either see the old or new code without any issues, unlike x86 which may issue a GPF. Instead of calling the heavy stop_machine, just update the code. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-03powerpc/boot: Only build board support files when required.Tony Breeds
Currently we build all board files regardless of the final zImage target. This is sub-optimal (in terms on compilation) and leads to problems in one platform needlessly causing failures for other platforms. Use the Kconfig variables to selectively construct this board files to build. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-02powerpc/kvm: sldi should be sldMichael Neuling
Since we are taking a registers, this should never have been an sldi. Talking to paulus offline, this is the correct fix. Was introduced by: commit 19ccb76a1938ab364a412253daec64613acbf3df Author: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Date: Sat Jul 23 17:42:46 2011 +1000 Talking to paulus, this shouldn't be a literal. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> CC: <stable@kernel.org> [v3.2+] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-02powerpc/xmon: Use cpumask iterator to avoid warningAnton Blanchard
We have a bug report where the kernel hits a warning in the cpumask code: WARNING: at include/linux/cpumask.h:107 Which is: WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits); The backtrace is: cpu_cmd cmds xmon_core xmon die xmon is iterating through 0 to NR_CPUS. I'm not sure why we are still open coding this but iterating above nr_cpu_ids is definitely a bug. This patch iterates through all possible cpus, in case we issue a system reset and CPUs in an offline state call in. Perhaps the old code was trying to handle CPUs that were in the partition but were never started (eg kexec into a kernel with an nr_cpus= boot option). They are going to die way before we get into xmon since we haven't set any kernel state up for them. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> CC: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>