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Geert Uytterhoeven
b163a256da [POWERPC] PS3: Split device setup for static vs. dynamic devices
Split the device setup code in ps3_register_repository_device() in two
routines:
  1. ps3_setup_static_device(), to handle the setup of static devices in the
     PS3 repository, which can be __init,
  2. ps3_setup_dynamic_device(), to handle the setup of storage devices that
     may appear later in the PS3 repository.

This fixes a few section mismatch warnings.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:09 +11:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
fa90f70a8e [POWERPC] arch_add_memory() cannot be __devinit
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xb41b0): Section mismatch in reference from the
function .add_memory() to the function .devinit.text:.arch_add_memory()
The function .add_memory() references
the function __devinit .arch_add_memory().
This is often because .add_memory lacks a __devinit
annotation or the annotation of .arch_add_memory is wrong.

arch_add_memory() is also not __devinit on other architectures

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:08 +11:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
18f032cb51 [POWERPC] move_device_tree() should be __init
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1e4c0): Section mismatch in reference from the
function .move_device_tree() to the function .init.text:.lmb_alloc_base()
The function .move_device_tree() references
the function __init .lmb_alloc_base().
This is often because .move_device_tree lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of .lmb_alloc_base is wrong.

move_device_tree() is called from early_init_devtree() only, which is __init

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:08 +11:00
Badari Pulavarty
52db9b4426 [POWERPC] Add error return from htab_remove_mapping()
If the platform doesn't support hpte_removebolted(), gracefully
return failure rather than success.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:08 +11:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
ca052f7924 [POWERPC] PS3: Save power in busy loops on halt
PS3 save power on halt:
  - Replace infinite busy loops by smarter loops calling
    lv1_pause() to save power.
  - Add ps3_halt() and ps3_sys_manager_halt().
  - Add __noreturn annotations.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:07 +11:00
Geoff Levand
5761eaa3a5 [POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper improvements
Improve the debugging support of the PS3 bootwraper code:

 o Increase the size of the PS3 bootwrapper overlay from 256 to 512 bytes to
   allow for more debugging code in the overlay.
 o Use the dot symbol to set the size of __system_reset_overlay.  The
   assembler will then emit an error if the overlay code is too big.
 o Remove some unused instructions.
 o Update the text describing the PS3 bootwrapper overlay.
 o Add a check for null pointer writes.
 o Change hcall return value from s64.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:07 +11:00
Takashi Yamamoto
23afcb4e00 [POWERPC] PS3: Add ps3_get_speid routine
Add a new routine ps3_get_speid() which returns the logical
SPE ID.  This ID is needed for profiling support.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Yamamoto <TakashiA.Yamamoto@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:07 +11:00
Roel Kluin
ad18c3db33 [POWERPC] PS3: Fix unlikely typo in ps3_get_irq
Fix a typo bug 'unlikely(x) == y' and add an unlikely() call to
an unlikely code path in the PS3 interrupt routine ps3_get_irq().

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:07 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
e6b18912d3 Merge branch 'powerpc-next' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc 2008-04-01 20:34:26 +11:00
Kumar Gala
1e85d89fa3 [POWERPC] Fix defconfigs so we dont set both GENRTC and RTCLIB
The new rtc subsystem conflicts with genrtc so don't enable GENRTC
if RTCLIB is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-31 11:53:46 -05:00
Kim Phillips
96ce1b6dc5 [POWERPC] sata_fsl: reduce compatibility to fsl,pq-sata
as prescribed in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-31 10:27:35 -05:00
Kim Phillips
58bb7a973b [POWERPC] 83xx: enable usb in 837x rdb and 83xx defconfigs
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-31 10:26:22 -05:00
Anton Vorontsov
8e8ff3a309 [POWERPC] 83xx: Fix wrong USB phy type in mpc837xrdb dts
Due to chip constraint MPC837x USB DR module can only use
ULPI and serial PHY interfaces.  The patch fixes the wrong
type in dts.

This patch fixes USB malfunctioning on the MPC837xE-RDB boards.

Similar patch has been already applied for the MDS boards:

  commit 28b9588592
  Author: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
  Date:   Thu Mar 6 18:42:26 2008 +0800

      [POWERPC] 83xx: Fix wrong USB phy type in mpc837xmds dts

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-31 10:23:48 -05:00
Al Viro
f10095c3ec powerpc/pseries/xcis: ansify
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-30 14:20:24 -07:00
Al Viro
683113a33d vma_map: use proper pointer types
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-30 14:20:23 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
a2ceff5e55 [POWERPC] Fix missed hardware breakpoints across multiple threads
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>
2008-03-28 22:51:02 +11:00
Gerhard Stenzel
ada397e93d [POWERPC] spufs: fix incorrect file descriptors in SPU coredump note names
At present, ppu-gdb can't trace spu infomation with coredump generated
by the kernel. While the core dumps notes have correct contents, they
have the wrong names, as the file descriptors used to generate the note
names are off-by-one. An application that opens a SPE context as fd 3,
the current core dump code will generate notes like:
  SPU/4/mem
  SPU/4/regs
etc.

This confuses GDB, which knows it is looking for SPE context 3 (from
parsing the spu_context_run system call arguments), and cannot find
any notes that match context 3.

This change corrects the file descriptor counting, to only increment
the fd until after we've written the note name.

Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <stenzel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-28 14:36:15 +11:00
Jeremy Kerr
36d29edb6d [POWERPC] spufs: save MFC command channel before purging MFC queue
During the context save process, we currently save the MFC command
channel after purging the MFC queues. This causes a systemsim warning,
as the command channel may be in an unknown state after the purge.

This change does the save before purging the MFC queues.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-28 14:36:08 +11:00
Jeremy Kerr
4eb5aef583 [POWERPC] spufs: reacquire LS pointer in spu_process_callback
During spu_process callback, we release then acquire the SPU, but keep a
pointer to the local store memory. Since the context may have been
scheduled out during the callback, the ls pointer may become invalid.

This change reacquires the pointer to the context local store after
spu_acquire()-ing, so that it isn't invalidated by a context switch.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-28 14:36:01 +11:00
Jeremy Kerr
af8b44e01b [POWERPC] spufs: add newline to signal{1,2}_type files
All of the single-value files in spufs are terminated by a newline,
except for signal1_type and signal2_type.

This change adds a trailing newline to these two files.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-28 14:35:56 +11:00
Alexandr Smirnov
ee0a3f564e [POWERPC] 85xx: Emerson KSI8560 device tree
Add device tree file for Emerson KSI8560 board.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Smirnov <asmirnov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-26 11:30:46 -05:00
Alexandr Smirnov
65848f7a0d [POWERPC] 85xx: Emerson KSI8560 default config
Add default config for Emerson KSI8560 board.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Smirnov <asmirnov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-26 11:30:45 -05:00
Alexandr Smirnov
ff880112af [POWERPC] 85xx: Emerson KSI8560 bootwrapper
Add boot wrapper for Emerson KSI8560 board.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Smirnov <asmirnov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-26 11:30:45 -05:00
Alexandr Smirnov
22b619eee5 [POWERPC] 85xx: Emerson KSI8560 base support
The KSI8560 is a single compact, mid-, or full-size Advanced Mezzanine Card
(AdvancedMC™) based on the Freescale™ Semiconductor MPC8560 PowerQUICC III™
microprocessor. This product will serve in data and signaling applications such
as signaling gateways (SGW) and softswitch signaling interface cards.

The board has altera maxii CPLD, that is used to obtain and manage board
configuration. Also there are two SCC UART serial consoles and FCC ethernet,
that is routed to the front panel, while other ethernet controlers (TSEC's) are
routed to the backplane.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Smirnov <asmirnov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-26 11:30:45 -05:00
Stefan Roese
99d8be052e [POWERPC] 4xx: Add L2 cache node to AMCC Taishan dts file
This patch adds the L2 cache node to the Taishan 440GX dts file.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:28:01 -05:00
Stefan Roese
2a7069190e [POWERPC] 4xx: Add PPC4xx L2-cache support (440GX)
This patch adds support for the 256k L2 cache found on some IBM/AMCC
4xx PPC's. It introduces a common 4xx SoC file (sysdev/ppc4xx_soc.c)
which currently "only" adds the L2 cache init code. Other common 4xx
stuff can be added later here.

The L2 cache handling code is a copy of Eugene's code in arch/ppc
with small modifications.

Tested on AMCC Taishan 440GX.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:27:54 -05:00
Stefan Roese
145692a734 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add "amcc, haleakala" to the toplevel compatible property
Currently Haleakala uses the Kilauea platform code. This patch adds
"haleakala" to the compatible property, in case later kernel versions
will introduce a Haleakala platform code.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:27:45 -05:00
Stefan Roese
c06cf7dad6 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add AMCC Glacier 460GT eval board dts
The patch adds the Glacier dts. The Glacier is nearly identical to the
Canyonlands (460EX). Here the differences:

- 4 ethernet ports instead of 2
- no SATA port
- no USB port

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:27:38 -05:00
Stefan Roese
7831426351 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add TAH support to taishan dts
This patch adds TAH (TCP/IP Acceleration Hardware) support to the
taishan 440GX dts. It depends on the NEWEMAC/tah patch that adds the
compatible "ibm,tah" property to the matching table.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:26:55 -05:00
Valentine Barshak
6e42b21bb9 [POWERPC] 4xx: Use dcri_clrset() for PCIe indirect dcr read/modify/write access
Use dcri_clrset() for PCIe SDR0 read/modify/write access.

Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:23:09 -05:00
Josh Boyer
d0a48c9f4c [POWERPC] 4xx: Add bootwrapper for AMCC Yosemite board
Add the cuboot wrapper for the AMCC 440EP Yosemite board

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:17 -05:00
Josh Boyer
ed70854a4f [POWERPC] 4xx: Add platform support for the AMCC Yosemite board
The AMCC 440EP Yosemite board is very similar to the original AMCC Bamboo
board.  This adds a YOSEMITE option to Kconfig, and reuses the existing
bamboo board support in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:17 -05:00
Josh Boyer
fd0ed740a1 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add AMCC 440EP Yosemite DTS
This adds a DTS file for the AMCC 440EP Yosemite board.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:17 -05:00
Stefan Roese
1d60f0fcda [POWERPC] 4xx: Add Canyonlands defconfig file
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:17 -05:00
Stefan Roese
66b7e504c0 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add 460EX PCIe support to 4xx pci driver
All this code is needed to properly initialize the 460EX PCIe host
bridge(s). We re-initialize all ports again, even though this has been done
in the bootloader (U-Boot) before. This way we make sure, that we always
run the latest init code in Linux and don't depend on code versions from
U-Boot.

Unfortunately all IBM/AMCC chips currently supported in this PCIe driver need
a different reset-/init-sequence.

Tested on AMCC Canyonlands eval board.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:16 -05:00
Stefan Roese
8bc4a51d28 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add Canyonlands DTS
This dts source file for the AMCC 460EX Canyonlands evalutaion board

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:16 -05:00
Stefan Roese
66e4b3341d [POWERPC] 4xx: Add AMCC Canyonlands 460EX eval board support to platforms/44x
Canyonlands is the AMCC 460EX eval board, featuring nearly all of the 460EX
interfaces:

- 1 * PCI (max 66MHz), 2 * PCIe (one 4-lane, one 1-lane)
- 2 * GBit Ethernet with TCP/IP acceleration
- USB 2.0 Host/Device OTG and Host interface
- SATA port

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:16 -05:00
Stefan Roese
464076a4b3 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add AMCC 460EX/460GT support to cputable.c & cpu_setup_44x.S
This patch adds basic support for the AMCC 460EX/460GT PPC's to arch/powerpc.
Currently those PPC's are still based on a 440 core and *not* a 460 core.

Here some basic features of those SoC's:

460EX:
- Up to 1.2GHz, 32kB L1 I-cache and D-cache, 256kB L2-cache, FPU
- 1 * PCI (max 66MHz), 2 * PCIe (one 4-lane, one 1-lane)
- 2 * GBit Ethernet with TCP/IP acceleration
- USB 2.0 Host/Device OTG and Host interface
- SATA controller
- Optional security feature

460GT (only changes to 460EX):
- 4 * GBit Ethernet with TCP/IP acceleration
- RapidIO
- No SATA
- No USB

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:16 -05:00
David Gibson
ecc6cd73b7 [POWERPC] Start removing linux,network-index in favour of aliases
This patch alters the bootwrapper for a number of machines (roubhly
all 4xx based cuboot or treeboot platforms) to use aliases instead of
the linux,network-index hack to work out which MAC address to attach
to which ethernet device node.

The now obsolete linux,network-index properties are removed from the
corresponding device trees.  This won't break backwards compatiblity,
because in cases where this fixup code is relevant, the device tree is
part of the kernel image.

The references to linux,network-index are removed from
booting-without-of.txt.  Not only is it now deprecated, but as a hack
applicable only when the device tree blob and fixup code were in the
same image, this property never belonged in booting-without-of.txt
which describes the interface between the kernel and firmware or
bootloaders which produce a device tree.  By the time the device tree
reaches the kernel, all the MAC addresses must be fully filled in.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26 07:19:16 -05:00
Paul Mackerras
54f53f2b94 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-03-26 08:44:18 +11:00
Nathan Lynch
f61fb8a52c [POWERPC] scanlog_init cleanup and minor fixes
scanlog_init() could use some love.

* properly return -ENODEV if this system doesn't support scan-log-dump
* don't printk if scan-log-dump not present; only older systems have it
* convert from create_proc_entry() to preferred proc_create()
* allocate zeroed data buffer
* fix potential memory leak of ent->data on failed create_proc_entry()
* simplify control flow

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
7415d5e0be [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Inform kdump when phyp-dump is loaded
This adds /sys/kernel/phyp_dump_active so that kdump init scripts may
look for it and take appropriate action if this file is found.  This
file is only created when phyp_dump has been registered.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
654f596da4 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Disable phyp-dump through boot-var
This adds a kernel command line option "phyp_dump", which takes a 0/1
value for disabling/ enabling phyp_dump at boot time.  Kdump can use
this on cmdline (phyp_dump=0) to disable phyp-dump during boot when
enabling itself.  This will ensure only one dumping mechanism is active
at any given time.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
242f271c05 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Add Kconfig file option
Add hypervisor-assisted dump to kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
fd35cff8d2 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Tracking memory range freed
This tracks the size freed.  For now it does a simple rudimentary
calculation of the ranges freed.  The idea is to keep it simple at the
external shell script level and send in large chunks for now.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
a9c508dae1 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Invalidate and print dump areas
This adds routines to
a. invalidate dump
b. calculate region that is reserved and needs to be freed.  This is
   exported through sysfs interface.

Unregister has been removed for now as it wasn't being used.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
599c1aa54f [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Debugging print routines
Provide some basic debugging support.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
2c4f41139c [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Register dump area
Set up the actual dump header, register it with the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
d5a29c7a36 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Use sysfs to release reserved mem
Check to see if there actually is data from a previously
crashed kernel waiting.  If so, allow user-space tools to
grab the data (by reading /proc/kcore).  When user-space
finishes dumping a section, it must release that memory
by writing to sysfs. For example,

  echo "0x40000000 0x10000000" > /sys/kernel/release_region

will release 256MB starting at the 1GB.  The released memory
becomes free for general use.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja
6ac26c8a7e [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Reserve and release memory
Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it
later.  If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved
memory would contain a copy of the crashed kernel data.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00