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  1. 09 3月, 2012 4 次提交
  3. 07 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  5. 23 2月, 2012 8 次提交
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      fadump: Remove the phyp assisted dump code. · 12d92992
      由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于 
      Remove the phyp assisted dump implementation which is not is use.
Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      12d92992
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      fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use. · b500afff
      由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于 
      This patch introduces an sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem' to
invalidate the last fadump registration, invalidate '/proc/vmcore', release
the reserved memory for general use and re-register for future kernel dump.
Once the dump is copied to the disk, unlike phyp dump, the userspace tool
can release all the memory reserved for dump with one single operation of
echo 1 to '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem'.

Release the reserved memory region excluding the size of the memory required
for future kernel dump registration. And therefore, unlike kdump, Fadump
doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production
configuration.
Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      b500afff
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      fadump: Convert firmware-assisted cpu state dump data into elf notes. · ebaeb5ae
      由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于 
      When registered for firmware assisted dump on powerpc, firmware preserves
the registers for the active CPUs during a system crash. This patch reads
the cpu register data stored in Firmware-assisted dump format (except for
crashing cpu) and converts it into elf notes and updates the PT_NOTE program
header accordingly. The exact register state for crashing cpu is saved to
fadump crash info structure in scratch area during crash_fadump() and read
during second kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ebaeb5ae
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      fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers. · 2df173d9
      由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于 
      Build the crash memory range list by traversing through system memory during
the first kernel before we register for firmware-assisted dump. After the
successful dump registration, initialize the elfcore header and populate
PT_LOAD program headers with crash memory ranges. The elfcore header is
saved in the scratch area within the reserved memory. The scratch area starts
at the end of the memory reserved for saving RMR region contents. The
scratch area contains fadump crash info structure that contains magic number
for fadump validation and physical address where the eflcore header can be
found. This structure will also be used to pass some important crash info
data to the second kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core
header with correct data before it gets exported through /proc/vmcore. Since
the firmware preserves the entire partition memory at the time of crash the
contents of the scratch area will be preserved till second kernel boot.

Since the memory dump exported through /proc/vmcore is in ELF format similar
to kdump, it will help us to reuse the kdump infrastructure for dump capture
and filtering. Unlike phyp dump, userspace tool does not need to refer any
sysfs interface while reading /proc/vmcore.

NOTE: The current design implementation does not address a possibility of
introducing additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting
compatibility. It's on TODO list to come up with better approach to
address this.

Reserved dump area start => +-------------------------------------+
                            |  CPU state dump data                |
                            +-------------------------------------+
                            |  HPTE region data                   |
                            +-------------------------------------+
                            |  RMR region data                    |
Scratch area start       => +-------------------------------------+
                            |  fadump crash info structure {      |
                            |     magic nummber                   |
                     +------|---- elfcorehdr_addr                 |
                     |      |  }                                  |
                     +----> +-------------------------------------+
                            |  ELF core header                    |
Reserved dump area end   => +-------------------------------------+
Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      2df173d9
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      fadump: Register for firmware assisted dump. · 3ccc00a7
      由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于 
      On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>
> If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on
> non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user
> has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line.  The
> printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition.  It
> seems to me that the condition for the printk should include
> fw_dump.fadump_enabled.  In other words you should probably add
>
> 	if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> 		return 0;
>
> at the beginning of the function.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below.

The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies
on this update.

Thanks,
-Mahesh.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      3ccc00a7
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      fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump. · eb39c880
      由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于 
      Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region
and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of
crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move
RMA region data to the reserved memory area.

If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback
to existing kexec-based kdump.

Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been
adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas
and Manish Ahuja

This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware
assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture.
Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      eb39c880
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      powerpc/mpic: Remove duplicate MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag · e55d7f73
      由 Kyle Moffett 提交于 
      There are two separate flags controlling whether or not the MPIC is
reset during initialization, which is completely unnecessary, and only
one of them can be specified in the device tree.

Also, most platforms in-tree right now do actually want to reset the
MPIC during initialization anyways, which means lots of duplicate code
passing the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag.

Fix all of the callers which currently do not pass the MPIC_WANTS_RESET
flag to pass the MPIC_NO_RESET flag, then remove the MPIC_WANTS_RESET
flag and make the code reset the MPIC by default.
Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      e55d7f73
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      powerpc/mpic: Remove MPIC_BROKEN_FRR_NIRQS and duplicate irq_count · 5019609f
      由 Kyle Moffett 提交于 
      The mpic->irq_count variable is only used as a software error-checking
limit to determine whether or not an IRQ number is valid.  In board code
which does not manually specify an IRQ count to mpic_alloc(), i.e. 0, it
is automatically detected from the number of ISUs and the ISU size.

In practice, all hardware ends up with irq_count == num_sources, so all
of the runtime checks on mpic->irq_count should just check the value of
mpic->num_sources instead.

When platform hardware does not correctly report the number of IRQs,
which only happens on the MPC85xx/MPC86xx, the MPIC_BROKEN_FRR_NIRQS
flag is used to override the detected value of num_sources with the
manual irq_count parameter.  Since there's no need to manually specify
the number of IRQs except in this case, the extra flag can be eliminated
and the test changed to "irq_count != 0".
Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      5019609f
  7. 14 2月, 2012 2 次提交
  9. 18 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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      Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h · d7e7528b
      由 Eric Paris 提交于 
      The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to
supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was.
Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify things
by converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating
success or failure.  This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid
pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall.  The fix is to fix the
layering foolishness.  We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it
in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to
determine if the syscall was a success or failure.  We also define a generic
is_syscall_success() macro which determines success/failure based on if the
value is < -MAX_ERRNO.  This works for arches like x86 which do not use a
separate mechanism to indicate syscall failure.

We make both the is_syscall_success() and regs_return_value() static inlines
instead of macros.  The reason is because the audit function must take a void*
for the regs.  (uml calls theirs struct uml_pt_regs instead of just struct
pt_regs so audit_syscall_exit can't take a struct pt_regs).  Since the audit
function takes a void* we need to use static inlines to cast it back to the
arch correct structure to dereference it.

The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, MIPS and ppc, we
change regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure.
THE only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it
makes the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs.

In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old
audit code as the return value.  But the ptrace_64.h code defined the macro
regs_return_value() as regs[3].  I have no idea which one is correct, but this
patch now uses the regs_return_value() function, so it now uses regs[3].

For powerpc we previously used regs->result but now use the
regs_return_value() function which uses regs->gprs[3].  regs->gprs[3] is
always positive so the regs_return_value(), much like ia64 makes it negative
before calling the audit code when appropriate.
Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [for x86 portion]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [for ia64]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for uml]
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [for sparc]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [for mips]
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [for ppc]
      d7e7528b
  11. 07 1月, 2012 2 次提交
  13. 05 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  15. 04 1月, 2012 2 次提交
  17. 30 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t · 34845636
      由 Andreas Schwab 提交于 
      Commit 2a95ea6c ("procfs: do not overflow get_{idle,iowait}_time
for nohz") did not take into account that one some architectures jiffies
and cputime use different units.

This causes get_idle_time() to return numbers in the wrong units, making
the idle time fields in /proc/stat wrong.

Instead of converting the usec value returned by
get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us to units of jiffies, use the new function
usecs_to_cputime64 to convert it to the correct unit of cputime64_t.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@mailcity.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      34845636
  19. 27 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  21. 26 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  23. 22 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem · 8a25a2fd
      由 Kay Sievers 提交于 
      This moves the 'cpu sysdev_class' over to a regular 'cpu' subsystem
and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
implemented as subsystem interfaces now.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem infrastructure
from sysdev devices, which are made available with this conversion.

Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      8a25a2fd
  25. 20 12月, 2011 2 次提交
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      powerpc: Define virtual-physical translations for RELOCATABLE · 368ff8f1
      由 Suzuki Poulose 提交于 
      We find the runtime address of _stext and relocate ourselves based
on the following calculation.

	virtual_base = ALIGN(KERNELBASE,KERNEL_TLB_PIN_SIZE) +
			MODULO(_stext.run,KERNEL_TLB_PIN_SIZE)

relocate() is called with the Effective Virtual Base Address (as
shown below)

            | Phys. Addr| Virt. Addr |
Page        |------------------------|
Boundary    |           |            |
            |           |            |
            |           |            |
Kernel Load |___________|_ __ _ _ _ _|<- Effective
Addr(_stext)|           |      ^     |Virt. Base Addr
            |           |      |     |
            |           |      |     |
            |           |reloc_offset|
            |           |      |     |
            |           |      |     |
            |           |______v_____|<-(KERNELBASE)%TLB_SIZE
            |           |            |
            |           |            |
            |           |            |
Page        |-----------|------------|
Boundary    |           |            |

On BookE, we need __va() & __pa() early in the boot process to access
the device tree.

Currently this has been defined as :

#define __va(x) ((void *)(unsigned long)((phys_addr_t)(x) -
						PHYSICAL_START + KERNELBASE)
where:
 PHYSICAL_START is kernstart_addr - a variable updated at runtime.
 KERNELBASE	is the compile time Virtual base address of kernel.

This won't work for us, as kernstart_addr is dynamic and will yield different
results for __va()/__pa() for same mapping.

e.g.,

Let the kernel be loaded at 64MB and KERNELBASE be 0xc0000000 (same as
PAGE_OFFSET).

In this case, we would be mapping 0 to 0xc0000000, and kernstart_addr = 64M

Now __va(1MB) = (0x100000) - (0x4000000) + 0xc0000000
		= 0xbc100000 , which is wrong.

it should be : 0xc0000000 + 0x100000 = 0xc0100000

On platforms which support AMP, like PPC_47x (based on 44x), the kernel
could be loaded at highmem. Hence we cannot always depend on the compile
time constants for mapping.

Here are the possible solutions:

1) Update kernstart_addr(PHSYICAL_START) to match the Physical address of
compile time KERNELBASE value, instead of the actual Physical_Address(_stext).

The disadvantage is that we may break other users of PHYSICAL_START. They
could be replaced with __pa(_stext).

2) Redefine __va() & __pa() with relocation offset

#ifdef	CONFIG_RELOCATABLE_PPC32
#define __va(x) ((void *)(unsigned long)((phys_addr_t)(x) - PHYSICAL_START + (KERNELBASE + RELOC_OFFSET)))
#define __pa(x) ((unsigned long)(x) + PHYSICAL_START - (KERNELBASE + RELOC_OFFSET))
#endif

where, RELOC_OFFSET could be

  a) A variable, say relocation_offset (like kernstart_addr), updated
     at boot time. This impacts performance, as we have to load an additional
     variable from memory.

		OR

  b) #define RELOC_OFFSET ((PHYSICAL_START & PPC_PIN_SIZE_OFFSET_MASK) - \
                      (KERNELBASE & PPC_PIN_SIZE_OFFSET_MASK))

   This introduces more calculations for doing the translation.

3) Redefine __va() & __pa() with a new variable

i.e,

#define __va(x) ((void *)(unsigned long)((phys_addr_t)(x) + VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET))

where VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET :

#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE_PPC32
#define VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET virt_phys_offset
#else
#define VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET (KERNELBASE - PHYSICAL_START)
#endif /* CONFIG_RELOCATABLE_PPC32 */

where virt_phy_offset is updated at runtime to :

	Effective KERNELBASE - kernstart_addr.

Taking our example, above:

virt_phys_offset = effective_kernelstart_vaddr - kernstart_addr
		 = 0xc0400000 - 0x400000
		 = 0xc0000000
	and

	__va(0x100000) = 0xc0000000 + 0x100000 = 0xc0100000
	 which is what we want.

I have implemented (3) in the following patch which has same cost of
operation as the existing one.

I have tested the patches on 440x platforms only. However this should
work fine for PPC_47x also, as we only depend on the runtime address
and the current TLB XLAT entry for the startup code, which is available
in r25. I don't have access to a 47x board yet. So, it would be great if
somebody could test this on 47x.
Signed-off-by: NSuzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
      368ff8f1
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      powerpc: Rename mapping based RELOCATABLE to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART for BookE · 0f890c8d
      由 Suzuki Poulose 提交于 
      The current implementation of CONFIG_RELOCATABLE in BookE is based
on mapping the page aligned kernel load address to KERNELBASE. This
approach however is not enough for platforms, where the TLB page size
is large (e.g, 256M on 44x). So we are renaming the RELOCATABLE used
currently in BookE to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART to reflect the actual method.

The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for PPC32(BookE) based on processing of the
dynamic relocations will be introduced in the later in the patch series.

This change would allow the use of the old method of RELOCATABLE for
platforms which can afford to enforce the page alignment (platforms with
smaller TLB size).

Changes since v3:

* Introduced a new config, NONSTATIC_KERNEL, to denote a kernel which is
  either a RELOCATABLE or DYNAMIC_MEMSTART(Suggested by: Josh Boyer)
Suggested-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Tested-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NSuzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux ppc dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
      0f890c8d
  27. 19 12月, 2011 4 次提交
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      powerpc: Fix comment explaining our VSID layout · b206590c
      由 Anton Blanchard 提交于 
      We support 16TB of user address space and half a million contexts
so update the comment to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      b206590c
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      powerpc: Fix wrong divisor in usecs_to_cputime · 9f5072d4
      由 Andreas Schwab 提交于 
      Commit d57af9b2 (taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times)
renamed msecs_to_cputime to usecs_to_cputime, but failed to update all
numbers on the way.  This causes nonsensical cpu idle/iowait values to be
displayed in /proc/stat (the only user of usecs_to_cputime so far).

This also renames __cputime_msec_factor to __cputime_usec_factor, adapting
its value and using it directly in cputime_to_usecs instead of doing two
multiplications.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      9f5072d4
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      powerpc: Add __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to asm/types.h for LL64 · 2c9c6ce0
      由 Matt Evans 提交于 
      PPC64 uses long long for u64 in the kernel, but powerpc's asm/types.h
prevents 64-bit userland from seeing this definition, instead defaulting
to u64 == long in userspace.  Some user programs (e.g. kvmtool) may actually
want LL64, so this patch adds a check for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ so that,
if defined, int-ll64.h is included instead.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      2c9c6ce0
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      powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX · a66086b8
      由 Anton Blanchard 提交于 
      Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX.
For large aligned copies this new loop is over 10% faster, and for
large unaligned copies it is over 200% faster.

If we take a fault we fall back to the old version, this keeps
things relatively simple and easy to verify.

On POWER7 unaligned stores rarely slow down - they only flush when
a store crosses a 4KB page boundary. Furthermore this flush is
handled completely in hardware and should be 20-30 cycles.

Unaligned loads on the other hand flush much more often - whenever
crossing a 128 byte cache line, or a 32 byte sector if either sector
is an L1 miss.

Considering this information we really want to get the loads aligned
and not worry about the alignment of the stores. Microbenchmarks
confirm that this approach is much faster than the current unaligned
copy loop that uses shifts and rotates to ensure both loads and
stores are aligned.

We also want to try and do the stores in cacheline aligned, cacheline
sized chunks. If the store queue is unable to merge an entire
cacheline of stores then the L2 cache will have to do a
read/modify/write. Even worse, we will serialise this with the stores
in the next iteration of the copy loop since both iterations hit
the same cacheline.

Based on this, the new loop does the following things:

1 - 127 bytes
Get the source 8 byte aligned and use 8 byte loads and stores. Pretty
boring and similar to how the current loop works.

128 - 4095 bytes
Get the source 8 byte aligned and use 8 byte loads and stores,
1 cacheline at a time. We aren't doing the stores in cacheline
aligned chunks so we will potentially serialise once per cacheline.
Even so it is much better than the loop we have today.

4096 - bytes
If both source and destination have the same alignment get them both
16 byte aligned, then get the destination cacheline aligned. Do
cacheline sized loads and stores using VMX.

If source and destination do not have the same alignment, we get the
destination cacheline aligned, and use permute to do aligned loads.

In both cases the VMX loop should be optimal - we always do aligned
loads and stores and are always doing stores in cacheline aligned,
cacheline sized chunks.

To be able to use VMX we must be careful about interrupts and
sleeping. We don't use the VMX loop when in an interrupt (which should
be rare anyway) and we wrap the VMX loop in disable/enable_pagefault
and fall back to the existing copy_tofrom_user loop if we do need to
sleep.

The VMX breakpoint of 4096 bytes was chosen using this microbenchmark:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c

Since we are using VMX and there is a cost to saving and restoring
the user VMX state there are two broad cases we need to benchmark:

- Best case - userspace never uses VMX

- Worst case - userspace always uses VMX

In reality a userspace process will sit somewhere between these two
extremes. Since we need to test both aligned and unaligned copies we
end up with 4 combinations. The point at which the VMX loop begins to
win is:

0% VMX
aligned		2048 bytes
unaligned	2048 bytes

100% VMX
aligned		16384 bytes
unaligned	8192 bytes

Considering this is a microbenchmark, the data is hot in cache and
the VMX loop has better store queue merging properties we set the
breakpoint to 4096 bytes, a little below the unaligned breakpoints.

Some future optimisations we can look at:

- Looking at the perf data, a significant part of the cost when a
  task is always using VMX is the extra exception we take to restore
  the VMX state. As such we should do something similar to the x86
  optimisation that restores FPU state for heavy users. ie:

        /*
         * If the task has used fpu the last 5 timeslices, just do a full
         * restore of the math state immediately to avoid the trap; the
         * chances of needing FPU soon are obviously high now
         */
        preload_fpu = tsk_used_math(next_p) && next_p->fpu_counter > 5;

  and

        /*
         * fpu_counter contains the number of consecutive context switches
         * that the FPU is used. If this is over a threshold, the lazy fpu
         * saving becomes unlazy to save the trap. This is an unsigned char
         * so that after 256 times the counter wraps and the behavior turns
         * lazy again; this to deal with bursty apps that only use FPU for
         * a short time
         */

- We could create a paca bit to mirror the VMX enabled MSR bit and check
  that first, avoiding multiple calls to calling enable_kernel_altivec.
  That should help with iovec based system calls like readv.

- We could have two VMX breakpoints, one for when we know the user VMX
  state is loaded into the registers and one when it isn't. This could
  be a second bit in the paca so we can calculate the break points quickly.

- One suggestion from Ben was to save and restore the VSX registers
  we use inline instead of using enable_kernel_altivec.

[BenH: Fixed a problem with preempt and fixed build without CONFIG_ALTIVEC]
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      a66086b8
  29. 16 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  31. 15 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  33. 09 12月, 2011 2 次提交
    • T
      powerpc/476fpe: Add 476fpe SoC code · df777bd3
      由 Tony Breeds 提交于 
      Based on original work by David 'Shaggy' Kleikamp.
Signed-off-by: NTony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
      df777bd3
    • T
      memblock: Fix include breakages caused by 24aa0788 · 1c16d242
      由 Tejun Heo 提交于 
      24aa0788 (memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free_range()
with generic ones) removed arch/x86/include/asm/memblock.h and dropped
its inclusion from include/linux/memblock.h which breaks other
architectures which depended on the generic memblock.h pulling in the
arch specific one.

However, the proper fix isn't adding back the asm inclusion.  memblock
doesn't have any arch dependent part and doesn't need arch specific
header file and asm/memblock.h files are either practically empty or
contain mostly unrelated arch specific stuff.

* In microblaze, sh, powerpc, sparc and openrisc, asm/memblock.h is
  either empty or just contains unused MEMBLOCK_DBG() macro.  Remove
  them.

* In arm and unicore32, asm/memblock.h contains arch specific stuff.
  Include it directly from its users.  It might be a good idea to
  rename the header file to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      1c16d242
  35. 08 12月, 2011 5 次提交