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Andrew Klossner
af9c724907 powerpc/udbg: Fix lost byte during console handover; change LFCR to CRLF
When the console is on a serial port to be driven by serial8250, a
character can be lost from the end of the first line in the two-line
sequence

	serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xe0004500 (irq = 42) is a 16550A
	console handover: boot [udbg0] -> real [ttyS0]

This happens because udbg_puts or udbg_write stuff the last byte of
the line into the Tx FIFO and return, whereupon the serial8250
initialization code immediately empties that FIFO.  The fix: udbg_puts
and udbg_write now wait for the Tx FIFO to clear before returning.
This delays the system by one additional serial frame time for each
line written by udbg, but the effect is not noticeable, a cumulative
17 milliseconds for 200 lines of early printk output at 115200 baud.

Also, the routines in udbg_16550.c now emit CRLF instead of LFCR.
Linux makes a point of emitting CRLF because, when serial output is
captured to a file, LFCR sequences can confuse text editors.  See
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/4/50 for some history.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klossner <andrew@cesa.opbu.xerox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:11:34 +11:00
Wolfram Sang
a77acda0b7 powerpc/pci: Fix typo: s/resouces/resources/ in a pr_debug
Fix typo: s/resouces/resources/ in a pr_debug

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:11:34 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
e7943fbbfd powerpc: Print linux_banner in prom_init
So at least you can see what kernel you're booting if you die
before the kernel prints it mid-way through start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:11:33 +11:00
Octavian Purdila
7c9583a4db powerpc/oprofile: Enable support for ppc750 processors
This patch enables oprofile for all 3 FX variants and GX variant of the
750 processor.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:11:32 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
9e1e3723be powerpc: Remove unused asm-offsets entries for cpu_spec
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:10:15 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
2657dd4e30 powerpc: Make sure we copy all cpu_spec features except PMC related ones
When identify_cpu() is called a second time with a logical PVR, it
only copies a subset of the cpu_spec fields so as to avoid overwriting
the performance monitor fields that were initialized based on the
real PVR.

However some of the other, non performance monitor related fields are
also not copied:
 * pvr_mask
 * pvr_value
 * mmu_features
 * machine_check

The fact that pvr_mask is not copied can result in show_cpuinfo()
showing the cpu as "unknown", if we override an unknown PVR with a
logical one - as reported by Shaggy.

So change the logic to copy all fields, and then put back the PMC
related ones in the case that we're overwriting a real PVR with a
logical one.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:10:14 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
666435bbf3 powerpc: Deindentify identify_cpu()
The for-loop body of identify_cpu() has gotten a little big, so move the
loop body logic into a separate function. No other changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:10:14 +11:00
Tejun Heo
19390c4d03 linker script: define __per_cpu_load on all SMP capable archs
Impact: __per_cpu_load available on all SMP capable archs

Percpu now requires three symbols to be defined - __per_cpu_load,
__per_cpu_start and __per_cpu_end.  There were three archs which
didn't have it.  Update them as follows.

* powerpc: can use generic PERCPU() macro.  Compile tested for
  powerpc32, compile/boot tested for powerpc64.

* ia64: can use generic PERCPU_VADDR() macro.  __phys_per_cpu_start is
  identical to __per_cpu_load.  Compile tested and symbol table looks
  identical after the change except for the additional __per_cpu_load.

* arm: added explicit __per_cpu_load definition.  Currently uses
  unified .init output section so can't use the generic macro.  Dunno
  whether the unified .init ouput section is required by arch
  peculiarity so I left it alone.  Please break it up and use PERCPU()
  if possible.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-10 16:27:48 +09:00
Kumar Gala
c3071951d0 powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for tlbilx instructions
The e500mc core supports the new tlbilx instructions that do core
local invalidates and also provide us the ability to take down
all TLB entries matching a given PID.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-09 09:25:38 -05:00
Paul Mackerras
880860e392 perfcounters/powerpc: add support for POWER4 processors
Impact: more hardware support

This adds the back-end for the PMU on the POWER4 and POWER4+ processors
(GP and GQ).  This is quite similar to the PPC970, with 8 PMCs, but has
fewer events than the PPC970.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-03-06 16:30:57 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
aabbaa6036 perfcounters/powerpc: add support for POWER5+ processors
Impact: more hardware support

This adds the back-end for the PMU on the POWER5+ processors (i.e. GS,
including GS DD3 aka POWER5++).  This doesn't use the fixed-function
PMC5 and PMC6 since they don't respect the freeze conditions and don't
generate interrupts, as on POWER6.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-03-06 16:28:37 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
86028598de perfcounters/powerpc: fix oops with multiple counters in a group
Impact: fix oops-causing bug

This fixes a bug in the powerpc hw_perf_counter_init where the code
didn't initialize ctrs[n] before passing the ctrs array to check_excludes,
leading to possible oopses and other incorrect behaviour.  This fixes it
by initializing ctrs[n] correctly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-03-06 08:07:13 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
8163d88c79 Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
2009-03-04 11:42:31 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
652e8f8d57 Merge commit 'jwb/next' into next 2009-03-03 13:30:03 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
55f2b78995 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat 2009-03-01 12:47:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8e818179eb Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 13:02:23 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
742bd95ba9 perfcounters/powerpc: Add support for POWER5 processors
This adds the back-end for the PMU on the POWER5 processor.  This knows
how to use the fixed-function PMC5 and PMC6 (instructions completed and
run cycles).  Unlike POWER6, PMC5/6 obey the freeze conditions and can
generate interrupts, so their use doesn't impose any extra restrictions.

POWER5+ is different and is not supported by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-02-26 15:36:48 +11:00
Michael Neuling
49f297f8df powerpc: Fix load/store float double alignment handler
When we introduced VSX, we changed the way FPRs are stored in the
thread_struct.  Unfortunately we missed the load/store float double
alignment handler code when updating how we access FPRs in the
thread_struct.

Below fixes this and merges the little/big endian case.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-26 14:02:53 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
d095cd46da perfcounters/powerpc: Make exclude_kernel bit work on Apple G5 processors
Currently, setting hw_event.exclude_kernel does nothing on the PPC970
variants used in Apple G5 machines, because they have the HV (hypervisor)
bit in the MSR forced to 1, so as far as the PMU is concerned, the
kernel runs in hypervisor mode.  Thus we have to use the MMCR0_FCHV
(freeze counters in hypervisor mode) bit rather than the MMCR0_FCS
(freeze counters in supervisor mode) bit.

This checks the MSR.HV bit at startup, and if it is set, we set the
freeze_counters_kernel variable to MMCR0_FCHV (it was initialized to
MMCR0_FCS).  We then use that whenever we need to exclude kernel events.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-02-23 23:01:28 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
501cb16d3c powerpc: Randomise PIEs
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>
2009-02-23 15:53:21 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
912f9ee21c powerpc: Randomise the brk region
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>
2009-02-23 15:53:20 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
d839088cae powerpc: Randomise lower bits of stack address
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>
2009-02-23 15:53:20 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
a465f9b694 powerpc: Move is_32bit_task
Move is_32bit_task into asm/thread_info.h, that allows us to test for
32/64bit tasks without an ugly CONFIG_PPC64 ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 15:53:06 +11:00
Michael Neuling
553631e25f powerpc: Fix load/store float double alignment handler
When we introduced VSX, we changed the way FPRs are stored in the
thread_struct.  Unfortunately we missed the load/store float double
alignment handler code when updating how we access FPRs in the
thread_struct.

Below fixes this and merges the little/big endian case.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 15:53:05 +11:00
Michael Neuling
545bba1824 powerpc: Add alignment handler for new lfiwzx instruction
lfiwzx is a new floating point load instruction in 2.06 that needs an
alignment handler for Linux.

Turns out to be the worlds easiest handler to add.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 15:53:04 +11:00
Brian King
f52862f407 powerpc/pseries: Fix partition migration hang under load
While testing partition migration with heavy CPU load using
shared processors, it was observed that sometimes the migration
would never complete and would appear to hang. Currently, the
migration code assumes that if H_SUCCESS is returned from the H_JOIN
then the migration is complete and the processor is waking up on
the target system. If there was an outstanding PROD to the processor
when the H_JOIN is called, however, it will return H_SUCCESS on the source
system, causing the migration to hang, or in some scenarios cause
the kernel to crash on the complete call waking the caller
of rtas_percpu_suspend_me. Fix this by calling H_JOIN multiple times
if necessary during the migration.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 15:53:04 +11:00
Kumar Gala
620165f971 powerpc: Add support for using doorbells for SMP IPI
The e500mc supports the new msgsnd/doorbell mechanisms that were added in
the Power ISA 2.05 architecture.  We use the normal level doorbell for
doing SMP IPIs at this point.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 15:53:03 +11:00
Tom Arbuckle
f81786913a powerpc/pci: Fix PCI<->OF matching of old style multifunc devices
Old OF variants used to create a 'dummy' parent node "multifunc-device"
for devices with more than one PCI function. Our code that matches OF
nodes to PCI devices dealt with that in one place but not in another,
this fixes it.

This has the practical effect of fixing interrupt routing of multifunction
PCI cards on some older PowerMac machines.

Signed-off-by: Tom Arbuckle <tom.d.arbuckle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:57 +11:00
Kumar Gala
16c57b3620 powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and support
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.

We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.

Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:56 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
bb9b903527 powerpc, ftrace: use create_branch lib function
Impact: clean up, remove duplicate code

When ftrace was first ported to PowerPC, there existed a
create_function_call that would create the instruction to make a call
to a given address. Unfortunately, this call expected to write to
the address it was given, and since it used the address to calculate
the offset, it could not be faked.

ftrace needed a way to create the instruction without actually writing
that instruction to the text section. So ftrace had to implement its
own code.

Now we have create_branch in the code patching library, which does
exactly what ftrace needs. This patch replaces ftrace's implementation
with the library function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:56 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
b54dcfe108 powerpc, ftrace: use unsigned int for instruction manipulation
The original port of ftrace to PowerPC kept a lot of the code used
by x86. Some of this code was to handle x86's 5 byte instruction.
This was handled by using character arrays to manipulate the
code.

PowerPC has a consistent 4 byte instruction. Using unsigned ints
makes the code more efficient as well as more readable.
By converting to use unsigned ints to represent instructions,
I was able to remove the side effects that were needed for
manipulating character strings.

  i.e. memcpy and memcmp

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:55 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
60ce8f7260 powerpc32, ftrace: dynamic function graph tracer
This patch gets function graph tracing working with dynamic function
tracer on PowerPC32.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:55 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
fad4f47cc8 powerpc32, ftrace: port function graph tracer to ppc32, static only
This patch ports the function graph tracer for PowerPC, but only
for static function tracing.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:55 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
bf528a3a9b powerpc32, ftrace: save and restore mcount regs with macro
Impact: clean up

Use a macro to save and restore the registers for PowerPC32,
since that code is duplicated.

This is similar to the work done by Cyrill Gorcunov for the
mcount code in x86_64.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:54 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
bb7253403f powerpc64, ftrace: save toc only on modules for function graph
The TOCS used by modules are different than the one used by
the core kernel code. The function graph tracer must save and
restore the TOC whenever it traces a module call. But this
is an added overhead to burden the majority of core kernel
code being traced.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt suggested in testing the entry of
the call to tell if it is a core kernel function or a module.
He recommended using the REGION_ID() macro to perform this test.

This patch implements Benjamin's idea, and uses a different
return_to_handler routine dependent on if the entry is a core
kernel function or not. The module version saves the TOC, where as
the core kernel version does not.

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>
2009-02-23 10:48:54 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
4654288847 powerpc64, tracing: add function graph tracer with dynamic tracing
This is the port of the function graph tracer to PowerPC with
dynamic tracing.

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>
2009-02-23 10:48:54 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
6794c78243 powerpc64: port of the function graph tracer
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>
2009-02-23 10:48:53 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
17be5b3ddf powerpc, ftrace: fix compile error when modules not configured
Michael Neuling reported a compile bug when dynamic ftrace was
configured in and modules were not. This was due to the ftrace
code referencing module specific structures.

Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:53 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
44e1d064b9 ftrace, powerpc: replace debug macro with proper pr_deug
Impact: cleanup

The PowerPC ftrace code uses a hacked up DEBUGP macro for prints.
This patch converts it to the standard pr_debug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:52 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
3b7faeb49e Merge commit 'kumar/next' into next 2009-02-18 13:23:30 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
82a0a1cc8f Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Manual merge of:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
2009-02-18 13:19:25 +11:00
Madhulika Madishetty
6c71209023 AMCC PPC 460SX redwood SoC platform initial framework
This patch contains initial framework for the AMCC Redwood board.

Signed-off-by: Madhulika Madishetty <mmadishetty@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Tirumala Marri <tmarri@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Vidhyananth Venkatasamy <vvenkatasamy@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Preetesh Parekh <pparekh@amcc.com>
Acked-by: Loc Ho <lho@amcc.com>
Acked-by: Feng Kan <fkan@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-02-14 14:41:29 -05:00
Yuri Tikhonov
e12401222f powerpc/44x: Support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE
This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards.

For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume
2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space
reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are
actually used. But this may be an acceptable trade-off to achieve the
high performance we have with big PAGE_SIZEs in some applications (e.g.
RAID).

Also with 256KB PAGE_SIZE we increase THREAD_SIZE up to 32KB to minimize
the risk of stack overflows in the cases of on-stack arrays, which size
depends on the page size (e.g. multipage BIOs, NTFS, etc.).

With 256KB PAGE_SIZE we need to decrease the PKMAP_ORDER at least down
to 9, otherwise all high memory (2 ^ 10 * PAGE_SIZE == 256MB) we'll be
occupied by PKMAP addresses leaving no place for vmalloc. We do not
separate PKMAP_ORDER for 256K from 16K/64K PAGE_SIZE here; actually that
value of 10 in support for 16K/64K had been selected rather intuitively.
Thus now for all cases of PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x (including the default, 4KB,
one) we have 512 pages for PKMAP.

Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should
use binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3 with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K
for building applications, which are to be run with the 256KB-page sized
kernel. If using the older binutils, then you should patch them like follows:

	--- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig
	+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c

	-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x10000
	+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x40000

One more restriction we currently have with 256KB page sizes is inability
to use shmem safely, so, for now, the 256KB is available only if you turn
the CONFIG_SHMEM option off (another variant is to use BROKEN).
Though, if you need shmem with 256KB pages, you can always remove the !SHMEM
dependency in 'config PPC_256K_PAGES', and use the workaround available here:
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/19/20

Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-02-14 14:40:04 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
8f8573ae9f Merge branches 'irq/genirq', 'irq/sparseirq' and 'irq/urgent' into irq/core 2009-02-13 11:57:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f8a6b2b9ce Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e9c4ffb11f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
2009-02-13 09:34:07 +01:00
Michael Neuling
26456dcfb8 powerpc/vsx: Fix VSX alignment handler for regs 32-63
Fix the VSX alignment handler for VSX registers > 32.  32-63 are stored
in the VMX part of the thread_struct not the FPR part.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
CC: stable@kernel.org (2.6.27 & .28 please)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-13 16:37:45 +11:00
Kumar Gala
70fe3af840 powerpc/book-3e: Introduce concept of Book-3e MMU
The Power ISA 2.06 spec introduces a standard MMU programming model that
is based on the Freescale Book-E MMU programing model.  The Freescale
version is pretty backwards compatiable with the ISA 2.06 definition so
we are starting to refactor some of the Freescale code so it can be
easily shared.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-12 16:51:33 -06:00
Kumar Gala
d66c82ea45 powerpc/fsl-booke: Add new ISA 2.06 page sizes and MAS defines
The Power ISA 2.06 added power of two page sizes to the embedded MMU
architecture.  Its done it such a way to be code compatiable with the
existing HW.  Made the minor code changes to support both power of two
and power of four page sizes.  Also added some new MAS bits and macros
that are defined as part of the 2.06 ISA.  Renamed some things to use
the 'Book-3e' concept to convey the new MMU that is based on the
Freescale Book-E MMU programming model.

Note, its still invalid to try and use a page size that isn't supported
by cpu.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-12 16:37:11 -06:00