1. 20 3月, 2014 1 次提交
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      powerpc/booke64: Use SPRG7 for VDSO · 9d378dfa
      Scott Wood 提交于
      Previously SPRG3 was marked for use by both VDSO and critical
      interrupts (though critical interrupts were not fully implemented).
      
      In commit 8b64a9df ("powerpc/booke64:
      Use SPRG0/3 scratch for bolted TLB miss & crit int"), Mihai Caraman
      made an attempt to resolve this conflict by restoring the VDSO value
      early in the critical interrupt, but this has some issues:
      
       - It's incompatible with EXCEPTION_COMMON which restores r13 from the
         by-then-overwritten scratch (this cost me some debugging time).
       - It forces critical exceptions to be a special case handled
         differently from even machine check and debug level exceptions.
       - It didn't occur to me that it was possible to make this work at all
         (by doing a final "ld r13, PACA_EXCRIT+EX_R13(r13)") until after
         I made (most of) this patch. :-)
      
      It might be worth investigating using a load rather than SPRG on return
      from all exceptions (except TLB misses where the scratch never leaves
      the SPRG) -- it could save a few cycles.  Until then, let's stick with
      SPRG for all exceptions.
      
      Since we cannot use SPRG4-7 for scratch without corrupting the state of
      a KVM guest, move VDSO to SPRG7 on book3e.  Since neither SPRG4-7 nor
      critical interrupts exist on book3s, SPRG3 is still used for VDSO
      there.
      Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
      Cc: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
      Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
      9d378dfa
  2. 15 1月, 2014 1 次提交
  3. 10 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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      powerpc/e6500: TLB miss handler with hardware tablewalk support · 28efc35f
      Scott Wood 提交于
      There are a few things that make the existing hw tablewalk handlers
      unsuitable for e6500:
      
       - Indirect entries go in TLB1 (though the resulting direct entries go in
         TLB0).
      
       - It has threads, but no "tlbsrx." -- so we need a spinlock and
         a normal "tlbsx".  Because we need this lock, hardware tablewalk
         is mandatory on e6500 unless we want to add spinlock+tlbsx to
         the normal bolted TLB miss handler.
      
       - TLB1 has no HES (nor next-victim hint) so we need software round robin
         (TODO: integrate this round robin data with hugetlb/KVM)
      
       - The existing tablewalk handlers map half of a page table at a time,
         because IBM hardware has a fixed 1MiB indirect page size.  e6500
         has variable size indirect entries, with a minimum of 2MiB.
         So we can't do the half-page indirect mapping, and even if we
         could it would be less efficient than mapping the full page.
      
       - Like on e5500, the linear mapping is bolted, so we don't need the
         overhead of supporting nested tlb misses.
      
      Note that hardware tablewalk does not work in rev1 of e6500.
      We do not expect to support e6500 rev1 in mainline Linux.
      Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
      Cc: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
      28efc35f
  4. 05 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  5. 17 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  6. 14 8月, 2013 2 次提交
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      powerpc: Make rwlocks endian safe · 54bb7f4b
      Anton Blanchard 提交于
      Our ppc64 spinlocks and rwlocks use a trick where a lock token and
      the paca index are placed in the lock with a single store. Since we
      are using two u16s they need adjusting for little endian.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      54bb7f4b
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      powerpc: Avoid link stack corruption for MMU on exceptions · bc2e6c6a
      Michael Neuling 提交于
      When we have MMU on exceptions (POWER8) and a relocatable kernel, we
      need to branch from the initial exception vectors at 0x0 to up high
      where the kernel might be located.  Currently we do this using the link
      register.
      
      Unfortunately this corrupts the link stack and instead we should use the
      count register.  We did this for the syscall entry path in:
        6a404806 powerpc: Avoid link stack corruption in MMU on syscall entry path
      but I stupidly forgot to do the same for other exceptions.
      
      This patch changes the initial exception vectors to use the count
      register instead of the link register when we need to branch up to the
      relocated kernel.
      
      I have a dodgy userspace test which loops calling a function that reads
      the PVR (mfpvr in userspace will be emulated by the kernel via the
      program check exception).  On POWER8 and with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, I
      get a ~10% performance improvement with my userspace test with this
      patch.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      bc2e6c6a
  7. 15 2月, 2013 2 次提交
  8. 10 1月, 2013 1 次提交
  9. 17 9月, 2012 1 次提交
  10. 07 9月, 2012 1 次提交
  11. 09 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Rework lazy-interrupt handling · 7230c564
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
      issues that this tries to address.
      
      We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
      interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
      and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
      interrupts.
      
      The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
      "edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
      EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.
      
      Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
      of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
      when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.
      
      This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
      we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.
      
      The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
      "irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
      occurred while soft-disabled.
      
      When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
      from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
      field.
      
      We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
      re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
      the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
      arch_local_irq_enable case).
      
      This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
      fake interrupts, among others.
      
      In addition, this adds a few refinements:
      
       - We no longer  hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
      while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
      (on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
      enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
      performance monitor interrupts.
      
       - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
      shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
      they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
      perf sample quality.
      
       - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
      act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
      appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
      nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
      perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)
      
       - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
      timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.
      
      Signed-off-by-yet: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ---
      
      v2:
      
      - Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
      - Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
      - Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
      - Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
        to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable
      
      v3:
      
       - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
       - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E
      
      v4:
      
       - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E
      
      v5:
      
       - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
      rework of some aspects of the patch.
      
      v6:
       - 32-bit compile fix
       - more compile fixes with various .config combos
       - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
       - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq
      
      v7:
       - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
      7230c564
  12. 08 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Provide a way for KVM to indicate that NV GPR values are lost · 2fde6d20
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This fixes a problem where a CPU thread coming out of nap mode can
      think it has valid values in the nonvolatile GPRs (r14 - r31) as saved
      away in power7_idle, but in fact the values have been trashed because
      the thread was used for KVM in the mean time.  The result is that the
      thread crashes because code that called power7_idle (e.g.,
      pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self()) goes to use values in registers that have
      been trashed.
      
      The bit field in SRR1 that tells whether state was lost only reflects
      the most recent nap, which may not have been the nap instruction in
      power7_idle.  So we need an extra PACA field to indicate that state
      has been lost even if SRR1 indicates that the most recent nap didn't
      lose state.  We clear this field when saving the state in power7_idle,
      we set it to a non-zero value when we use the thread for KVM, and we
      test it in power7_wakeup_noloss.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      2fde6d20
  13. 20 9月, 2011 1 次提交
  14. 12 7月, 2011 2 次提交
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      KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode · de56a948
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
      specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
      that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
      that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
      registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
      performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
      architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.
      
      This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
      PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
      interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
      Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
      under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
      hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
      to include/linux/kvm.h.
      
      Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
      (i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
      made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
      do one or the other.
      
      This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
      Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
      restriction.
      
      With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
      to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
      interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
      interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
      the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
      exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
      to those exception handlers.
      
      We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
      hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
      interrupts, so we have to handle those.
      
      In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
      a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
      and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
      We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
      anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
      We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
      kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
      so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.
      
      The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
      to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
      (partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
      exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
      in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.
      
      This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
      it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
      require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
      order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
      we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
      since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.
      
      This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      de56a948
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      KVM: PPC: Split host-state fields out of kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu · 3c42bf8a
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      There are several fields in struct kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu that
      temporarily store bits of host state while a guest is running,
      rather than anything relating to the particular guest or vcpu.
      This splits them out into a new kvmppc_host_state structure and
      modifies the definitions in asm-offsets.c to suit.
      
      On 32-bit, we have a kvmppc_host_state structure inside the
      kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu since the assembly code needs to be able
      to get to them both with one pointer.  On 64-bit they are separate
      fields in the PACA.  This means that on 64-bit we don't need to
      copy the kvmppc_host_state in and out on vcpu load/unload, and
      in future will mean that the book3s_hv code doesn't need a
      shadow_vcpu struct in the PACA at all.  That does mean that we
      have to be careful not to rely on any values persisting in the
      hstate field of the paca across any point where we could block
      or get preempted.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      3c42bf8a
  15. 29 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc/book3e-64: use a separate TLB handler when linear map is bolted · f67f4ef5
      Scott Wood 提交于
      On MMUs such as FSL where we can guarantee the entire linear mapping is
      bolted, we don't need to worry about linear TLB misses.  If on top of
      that we do a full table walk, we get rid of all recursive TLB faults, and
      can dispense with some state saving.  This gains a few percent on
      TLB-miss-heavy workloads, and around 50% on a benchmark that had a high
      rate of virtual page table faults under the normal handler.
      
      While touching the EX_TLB layout, remove EX_TLB_MMUCR0, EX_TLB_SRR0, and
      EX_TLB_SRR1 as they're not used.
      
      [BenH: Fixed build with 64K pages (wsp config)]
      Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      f67f4ef5
  16. 04 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Save Come-From Address Register (CFAR) in exception frame · 48404f2e
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Recent 64-bit server processors (POWER6 and POWER7) have a "Come-From
      Address Register" (CFAR), that records the address of the most recent
      branch or rfid (return from interrupt) instruction for debugging purposes.
      
      This saves the value of the CFAR in the exception entry code and stores
      it in the exception frame.  We also make xmon print the CFAR value in
      its register dump code.
      
      Rather than extend the pt_regs struct at this time, we steal the orig_gpr3
      field, which is only used for system calls, and use it for the CFAR value
      for all exceptions/interrupts other than system calls.  This means we
      don't save the CFAR on system calls, which is not a great problem since
      system calls tend not to happen unexpectedly, and also avoids adding the
      overhead of reading the CFAR to the system call entry path.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      48404f2e
  17. 27 4月, 2011 1 次提交
  18. 20 4月, 2011 1 次提交
  19. 19 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks · e360adbe
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
      most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
      system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
      
      Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
      a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
      benefit.
      
      The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
      possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
      built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
      
      Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
      callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
      irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
      work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
      processing the work.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      [ various fixes ]
      Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e360adbe
  20. 02 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Account time using timebase rather than PURR · cf9efce0
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Currently, when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is enabled, we use the
      PURR register for measuring the user and system time used by
      processes, as well as other related times such as hardirq and
      softirq times.  This turns out to be quite confusing for users
      because it means that a program will often be measured as taking
      less time when run on a multi-threaded processor (SMT2 or SMT4 mode)
      than it does when run on a single-threaded processor (ST mode), even
      though the program takes longer to finish.  The discrepancy is
      accounted for as stolen time, which is also confusing, particularly
      when there are no other partitions running.
      
      This changes the accounting to use the timebase instead, meaning that
      the reported user and system times are the actual number of real-time
      seconds that the program was executing on the processor thread,
      regardless of which SMT mode the processor is in.  Thus a program will
      generally show greater user and system times when run on a
      multi-threaded processor than on a single-threaded processor.
      
      On pSeries systems on POWER5 or later processors, we measure the
      stolen time (time when this partition wasn't running) using the
      hypervisor dispatch trace log.  We check for new entries in the
      log on every entry from user mode and on every transition from
      kernel process context to soft or hard IRQ context (i.e. when
      account_system_vtime() gets called).  So that we can correctly
      distinguish time stolen from user time and time stolen from system
      time, without having to check the log on every exit to user mode,
      we store separate timestamps for exit to user mode and entry from
      user mode.
      
      On systems that have a SPURR (POWER6 and POWER7), we read the SPURR
      in account_system_vtime() (as before), and then apportion the SPURR
      ticks since the last time we read it between scaled user time and
      scaled system time according to the relative proportions of user
      time and system time over the same interval.  This avoids having to
      read the SPURR on every kernel entry and exit.  On systems that have
      PURR but not SPURR (i.e., POWER5), we do the same using the PURR
      rather than the SPURR.
      
      This disables the DTL user interface in /sys/debug/kernel/powerpc/dtl
      for now since it conflicts with the use of the dispatch trace log
      by the time accounting code.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      cf9efce0
  21. 31 7月, 2010 1 次提交
  22. 21 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      powerpc/kexec: Fix race in kexec shutdown · 1fc711f7
      Michael Neuling 提交于
      In kexec_prepare_cpus, the primary CPU IPIs the secondary CPUs to
      kexec_smp_down().  kexec_smp_down() calls kexec_smp_wait() which sets
      the hw_cpu_id() to -1.  The primary does this while leaving IRQs on
      which means the primary can take a timer interrupt which can lead to
      the IPIing one of the secondary CPUs (say, for a scheduler re-balance)
      but since the secondary CPU now has a hw_cpu_id = -1, we IPI CPU
      -1... Kaboom!
      
      We are hitting this case regularly on POWER7 machines.
      
      There is also a second race, where the primary will tear down the MMU
      mappings before knowing the secondaries have entered real mode.
      
      Also, the secondaries are clearing out any pending IPIs before
      guaranteeing that no more will be received.
      
      This changes kexec_prepare_cpus() so that we turn off IRQs in the
      primary CPU much earlier.  It adds a paca flag to say that the
      secondaries have entered the kexec_smp_down() IPI and turned off IRQs,
      rather than overloading hw_cpu_id with -1.  This new paca flag is
      again used to in indicate when the secondaries has entered real mode.
      
      It also ensures that all CPUs have their IRQs off before we clear out
      any pending IPI requests (in kexec_cpu_down()) to ensure there are no
      trailing IPIs left unacknowledged.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      1fc711f7
  23. 17 5月, 2010 3 次提交
  24. 09 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Dynamically allocate pacas · 1426d5a3
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      On 64-bit kernels we currently have a 512 byte struct paca_struct for
      each cpu (usually just called "the paca"). Currently they are statically
      allocated, which means a kernel built for a large number of cpus will
      waste a lot of space if it's booted on a machine with few cpus.
      
      We can avoid that by only allocating the number of pacas we need at
      boot. However this is complicated by the fact that we need to access
      the paca before we know how many cpus there are in the system.
      
      The solution is to dynamically allocate enough space for NR_CPUS pacas,
      but then later in boot when we know how many cpus we have, we free any
      unused pacas.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      1426d5a3
  25. 01 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      KVM: PPC: Use PACA backed shadow vcpu · 7e57cba0
      Alexander Graf 提交于
      We're being horribly racy right now. All the entry and exit code hijacks
      random fields from the PACA that could easily be used by different code in
      case we get interrupted, for example by a #MC or even page fault.
      
      After discussing this with Ben, we figured it's best to reserve some more
      space in the PACA and just shove off some vcpu state to there.
      
      That way we can drastically improve the readability of the code, make it
      less racy and less complex.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      7e57cba0
  26. 05 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  27. 21 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      perf: Tidy up after the big rename · 57c0c15b
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
       - provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's
      
       - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects
      
       - small indentation fixups
      
       - fix up MAINTAINERS
      
       - fix small x86 printout fallout
      
       - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register)
      Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      57c0c15b
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      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
      
      In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
      initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
      becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
      monitoring, analysis facility.
      
      Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
      'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
      code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
      less appropriate.
      
      All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
      events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
      and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
      
      The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
      it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
      
      Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
      suggested a rename.
      
      User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
      should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
      keep the size down.)
      
      This patch has been generated via the following script:
      
        FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
          -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
          -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
          -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
          -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
          $FILES
      
        for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
          M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
          mv $N $M
        done
      
        FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
          -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
          -e 's/counter/event/g' \
          -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
          $FILES
      
      ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
      used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
      a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
      change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
      is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
      
      Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
      stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
      
      ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
        with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
        over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
        in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
        better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
        instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
      Suggested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  28. 20 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  29. 09 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  30. 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
    • P
      powerpc: Provide a way to defer perf counter work until interrupts are enabled · 93a6d3ce
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Because 64-bit powerpc uses lazy (soft) interrupt disabling, it is
      possible for a performance monitor exception to come in when the
      kernel thinks interrupts are disabled (i.e. when they are
      soft-disabled but hard-enabled).  In such a situation the performance
      monitor exception handler might have some processing to do (such as
      process wakeups) which can't be done in what is effectively an NMI
      handler.
      
      This provides a way to defer that work until interrupts get enabled,
      either in raw_local_irq_restore() or by returning from an interrupt
      handler to code that had interrupts enabled.  We have a per-processor
      flag that indicates that there is work pending to do when interrupts
      subsequently get re-enabled.  This flag is checked in the interrupt
      return path and in raw_local_irq_restore(), and if it is set,
      perf_counter_do_pending() is called to do the pending work.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      93a6d3ce
  31. 16 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Make it possible to move the interrupt handlers away from the kernel · 1f6a93e4
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This changes the way that the exception prologs transfer control to
      the handlers in 64-bit kernels with the aim of making it possible to
      have the prologs separate from the main body of the kernel.  Now,
      instead of computing the address of the handler by taking the top
      32 bits of the paca address (to get the 0xc0000000........ part) and
      ORing in something in the bottom 16 bits, we get the base address of
      the kernel by doing a load from the paca and add an offset.
      
      This also replaces an mfmsr and an ori to compute the MSR value for
      the handler with a load from the paca.  That makes it unnecessary to
      have a separate version of EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES that forces 64-bit
      mode.
      
      We can no longer use a direct branches in the exception prolog code,
      which means that the SLB miss handlers can't branch directly to
      .slb_miss_realmode any more.  Instead we have to compute the address
      and do an indirect branch.  This is conditional on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE;
      for non-relocatable kernels we use a direct branch as before.  (A later
      change will allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE to be set on 64-bit powerpc.)
      
      Since the secondary CPUs on pSeries start execution in the first 0x100
      bytes of real memory and then have to get to wherever the kernel is,
      we can't use a direct branch to get there.  Instead this changes
      __secondary_hold_spinloop from a flag to a function pointer.  When it
      is set to a non-NULL value, the secondary CPUs jump to the function
      pointed to by that value.
      
      Finally this eliminates one code difference between 32-bit and 64-bit
      by making __secondary_hold be the text address of the secondary CPU
      spinloop rather than a function descriptor for it.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      1f6a93e4
  32. 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  33. 24 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  34. 15 4月, 2008 1 次提交