- 02 5月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This fixes a regression reported by Kamalesh Bulabel where a POWER4 machine would crash because of an SLB miss at a point where the SLB miss exception was unrecoverable. This regression is tracked at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10082 SLB misses at such points shouldn't happen because the kernel stack is the only memory accessed other than things in the first segment of the linear mapping (which is mapped at all times by entry 0 of the SLB). The context switch code ensures that SLB entry 2 covers the kernel stack, if it is not already covered by entry 0. None of entries 0 to 2 are ever replaced by the SLB miss handler. Where this went wrong is that the context switch code assumes it doesn't have to write to SLB entry 2 if the new kernel stack is in the same segment as the old kernel stack, since entry 2 should already be correct. However, when we start up a secondary cpu, it calls slb_initialize, which doesn't set up entry 2. This is correct for the boot cpu, where we will be using a stack in the kernel BSS at this point (i.e. init_thread_union), but not necessarily for secondary cpus, whose initial stack can be allocated anywhere. This doesn't cause any immediate problem since the SLB miss handler will just create an SLB entry somewhere else to cover the initial stack. In fact it's possible for the cpu to go quite a long time without SLB entry 2 being valid. Eventually, though, the entry created by the SLB miss handler will get overwritten by some other entry, and if the next access to the stack is at an unrecoverable point, we get the crash. This fixes the problem by making slb_initialize create a suitable entry for the kernel stack, if we are on a secondary cpu and the stack isn't covered by SLB entry 0. This requires initializing the get_paca()->kstack field earlier, so I do that in smp_create_idle where the current field is initialized. This also abstracts a bit of the computation that mk_esid_data in slb.c does so that it can be used in slb_initialize. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Geoff Levand 提交于
Arrange for a syntax check to always be done on the powerpc/mm/slb.c DBG() macro by defining it to pr_debug() for non-debug builds. Also, fix these related compile warnings: slb.c:273: warning: format '%04x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int slb.c:274: warning: format '%04x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int' Signed-off-by: NGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 29 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Badari Pulavarty 提交于
Provide walk_memory_resource() for 64-bit powerpc. PowerPC maintains logical memory region mapping in the lmb.memory structure. Walk through these structures and do the callbacks for the contiguous chunks. Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 28 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
All architectures use an effectively identical definition of online_page(), so just make it common code. x86-64, ia64, powerpc and sh are actually identical; x86-32 is slightly different. x86-32's differences arise because it puts its hotplug pages in the highmem zone. We can handle this in the generic code by inspecting the page to see if its in highmem, and update the totalhigh_pages count appropriately. This leaves init_32.c:free_new_highpage with a single caller, so I folded it into add_one_highpage_init. I also removed an incorrect comment referring to the NUMA case; any NUMA details have already been dealt with by the time online_page() is called. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix indenting] Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamez.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamez.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 24 4月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
Use (31-THREAD_SHIFT) to get to thread_info from stack pointer. This makes the code a bit easier to read and more robust if we ever change THREAD_SHIFT. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
The fixmap code from x86 allows us to have compile time virtual addresses that we change the physical addresses of at run time. This is useful for applications like kmap_atomic, PCI config that is done via direct memory map, kexec/kdump. We got ride of CONFIG_HIGHMEM_START as we can now determine a more optimal location for PKMAP_BASE based on where the fixmap addresses start and working back from there. Additionally, the kmap code in asm-powerpc/highmem.h always had debug enabled. Moved to using CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM to determine if we should have the extra debug checking. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
Added support to allow an 85xx kernel to be run from a non-zero physical address (useful for cooperative asymmetric multiprocessing situations and kdump). The support can be configured at compile time by setting CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, CONFIG_KERNEL_START, and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START as desired. Alternatively, the kernel build can set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. Setting this config option causes the kernel to determine at runtime the physical addresses of CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET and CONFIG_KERNEL_START. If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, then CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START has no meaning. However, CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START will always be used to set the LOAD program header physical address field in the resulting ELF image. Currently we are limited to running at a physical address that is a multiple of 256M. This is due to how we map TLBs to cover lowmem. This should be fixed to allow 64M or maybe even 16M alignment in the future. It is considered an error to try and run a kernel at a non-aligned physical address. All the magic for this support is accomplished by proper initialization of the kernel memory subsystem and use of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET. The use of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET only affects normal memory and not IO mappings. ioremap uses map_page and isn't affected by ARCH_PFN_OFFSET. /dev/mem continues to allow access to any physical address in the system regardless of how CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is set. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
numa.c requires routines declared in linux/of.h, so should include it. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 18 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Olof Johansson 提交于
Remove the __max_memory variable, as it is not referenced anywhere in the tree besides some code in arch/ppc. Signed-off-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 17 4月, 2008 5 次提交
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
When we moved to arch/powerpc we actively tried to avoid using the ppc_md.setup_io_mappings(). Currently no board ports use it so let's remove it to avoid any new boards using it. Also, remove early_serial_map() since we don't even have a call out for it in arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
We always use __initial_memory_limit as an address so rename it to be clear. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
* Determine the RPN we are running the kernel at runtime rather than using compile time constant for initial TLB * Cleanup adjust_total_lowmem() to respect memstart_addr and be a bit more clear on variables that are sizes vs addresses. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
total_lowmem represents the amount of low memory, not the physical address that low memory ends at. If the start of memory is at 0 it happens that total_lowmem can be used as both the size and the address that lowmem ends at (or more specifically one byte beyond the end). To make the code a bit more clear and deal with the case when the start of memory isn't at physical 0, we introduce lowmem_end_addr that represents one byte beyond the last physical address in the lowmem region. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
A number of users of PPC_MEMSTART (40x, ppc_mmu_32) can just always use 0 as we don't support booting these kernels at non-zero physical addresses since their exception vectors must be at 0 (or 0xfffx_xxxx). For the sub-arches that support relocatable interrupt vectors (book-e), it's reasonable to have memory start at a non-zero physical address. For those cases use the variable memstart_addr instead of the #define PPC_MEMSTART since the only uses of PPC_MEMSTART are for initialization and in the future we can set memstart_addr at runtime to have a relocatable kernel. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 07 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
This eliminates a warning in builds that don't define CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 03 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
hash_page_sync() takes and releases the low level mmu hash lock in order to sync with other processors disposing of page tables. Because that lock can be needed to service hash misses triggered by interrupt handlers, taking it must be done with interrupts off. However, hash_page_sync() appears to be called with interrupts enabled, thus causing occasional deadlocks. We fix it by making sure hash_page_sync() masks interrupts while holding the lock. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 01 4月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Johannes Weiner 提交于
show_mem() has no need to print the amount of free swap space manually because show_free_areas() does this already and is called by the former. The two outputs only differ in text formatting: printk("Free swap = %lukB\n", ...); printk("Free swap: %6ldkB\n", ...); Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Harvey Harrison 提交于
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
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: NGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Badari Pulavarty 提交于
If the platform doesn't support hpte_removebolted(), gracefully return failure rather than success. Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
On pSeries, the hypervisor doesn't let us map in the eHEA ethernet adapter using 64k pages, and thus the ehea driver will fail if 64k pages are configured. This works around the problem by always using 4k pages for ioremap on pSeries (but not on other platforms). A better fix would be to check whether the partition could ever have an eHEA adapter, and only force 4k pages if it could, but this will do for 2.6.25. This is based on an earlier patch by Tony Breeds. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 20 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
Since the PMU is an NMI now, it can come at any time we are only soft disabled. We must hard disable around the two places we allow the kernel stack SLB and r1 to go out of sync. Otherwise the PMU exception can force a kernel stack SLB into another slot, which can lead to it getting evicted, which can lead to a nasty unrecoverable SLB miss in the exception entry code. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 13 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
My recent hack to allocate the hash table under 1GB on cell was poorly tested, *cough*. It turns out on blades with large amounts of memory we fail to allocate the hash table at all. This is because RTAS has been instantiated just below 768MB, and 0-x MB are used by the kernel, leaving no areas that are both large enough and also naturally-aligned. For the cell IOMMU hack the page tables must be under 2GB, so use that as the limit instead. This has been tested on real hardware and boots happily. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 26 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Badari Pulavarty 提交于
For memory remove, we need to clean up htab mappings for the section of the memory we are removing. This implements support for removing htab bolted mappings for pSeries logical partitions. Other sub-archs may need to implement similar functionality for hotplug memory remove to work on them. Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 14 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 David S. Miller 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 09 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390. These sub-page page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization instruction with KVM. The SIE instruction requires that the page tables have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries (pgste). The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE instruction. The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking. To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return 1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE. Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K. That means the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct page. Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than 32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be accessible since its not kmapped). Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a pgtable_t. For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a later patch. For everybody else it will be a (struct page *). The additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and a destructor pgtable_page_dtor. The page table allocation and free functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or freed. pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer. To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added. It replaces the pmd_page call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 08 2月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Badari Pulavarty 提交于
walk_memory_resource() verifies if there are holes in a given memory range, by checking against /proc/iomem. On x86/ia64 system memory is represented in /proc/iomem. On powerpc, we don't show system memory as IO resource in /proc/iomem - instead it's maintained in /proc/device-tree. This provides a way for an architecture to provide its own walk_memory_resource() function. On powerpc, the memory region is small (16MB), contiguous and non-overlapping. So extra checking against the device-tree is not needed. Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Badari Pulavarty 提交于
Supply remove_memory() function for 64-bit powerpc. This is still not quite complete as it needs to do some more arch-specific stuff, which will be added in a later patch. Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Bernhard Walle 提交于
This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions between crashkernel area and already used memory. This patch: Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE. If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already has been reserved in the past. This is to avoid conflicts. Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition inside reserve_bootmem_core(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 07 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Balbir Singh 提交于
Here's a dumb simple implementation of fake NUMA nodes for PowerPC. Fake NUMA nodes can be specified using the following command line option numa=fake=<node range> node range is of the format <range1>,<range2>,...<rangeN> Each of the rangeX parameters is passed using memparse(). I find the patch useful for fake NUMA emulation on my simple PowerPC machine. I've tested it on a numa box with the following arguments numa=fake=512M numa=fake=512M,768M numa=fake=256M,512M mem=512M numa=fake=1G mem=768M numa=fake= without any numa= argument The other side-effect introduced by this patch is that; in the case where we don't have NUMA information, we now set a node online after adding each LMB. This node could very well be node 0, but in the case that we enable fake NUMA nodes, when we cross node boundaries, we need to set the new node online. Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 06 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Scott Wood 提交于
Currently, update_mmu_cache will crash if given a no-access PTE. There's no need to synchronize dcache/icache unless it's an exec mapping -- however, due to the existence of older glibc versions that execute out of a read-but-no-exec page, readability is tested instead. This assumes no exec-only mappings; if such mappings become supported, they will need to go through the kmap_atomic() version of dcache/icache synchronization. This fixes a bug reported by some users where the kernel would crash while dumping core on a threaded program. Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
(with Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>) The pgd/pud/pmd/pte page table allocation functions get a mm_struct pointer as first argument. The free functions do not get the mm_struct argument. This is 1) asymmetrical and 2) to do mm related page table allocations the mm argument is needed on the free function as well. [kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com: i386 fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NKamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 31 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
In order to support the fixed IOMMU mapping (in a subsequent patch), we need the hash table to be inside the IOMMUs DMA window. This is usually 2G, but let's make sure the hash table is under 1G as that will satisfy the IOMMU requirements and also means the hash table will be on node 0. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 26 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This reverts commit 5c3f5892, basically because it changes behaviour even when no fake NUMA information is specified on the kernel command line. Firstly, it changes the nid, thus destroying the real NUMA information. Secondly, it also changes behaviour in that if a node ends up with no memory in it because of the memory limit, we used to set it online and now we don't. Also, in the non-NUMA case with no fake NUMA information, we do node_set_online once for each LMB now, whereas previously we only did it once. I don't know if that is actually a problem, but it does seem unnecessary. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
This makes the setjmp/longjmp code used by xmon, generically available to other code. It also removes the requirement for debugger hooks to be only called on 0x300 (data storage) exception. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 1月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Dale Farnsworth 提交于
The e500 MMU init code previously assumed KERNELBASE always equaled PAGE_OFFSET and PHYSICAL_START was 0. This is useful for kdump support as well as asymetric multicore. For the initial kdump support the secondary kernel will run at 32M but need access to all of memory so we bump the initial TLB up to 64M. This also matches with the forth coming ePAPR spec. Signed-off-by: NDale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
There were several issues if a memreserve range existed and happened to be in highmem: * The bootmem allocator is only aware of lowmem so calling reserve_bootmem with a highmem address would cause a BUG_ON * All highmem pages were provided to the buddy allocator Added a lmb_is_reserved() api that we now use to determine if a highem page should continue to be PageReserved or provided to the buddy allocator. Also, we incorrectly reported the amount of pages reserved since all highmem pages are initally marked reserved and we clear the PageReserved flag as we "free" up the highmem pages. Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Using 64k pages on 64-bit PowerPC systems makes life difficult for emulators that are trying to emulate an ISA, such as x86, which use a smaller page size, since the emulator can no longer use the MMU and the normal system calls for controlling page protections. Of course, the emulator can emulate the MMU by checking and possibly remapping the address for each memory access in software, but that is pretty slow. This provides a facility for such programs to control the access permissions on individual 4k sub-pages of 64k pages. The idea is that the emulator supplies an array of protection masks to apply to a specified range of virtual addresses. These masks are applied at the level where hardware PTEs are inserted into the hardware page table based on the Linux PTEs, so the Linux PTEs are not affected. Note that this new mechanism does not allow any access that would otherwise be prohibited; it can only prohibit accesses that would otherwise be allowed. This new facility is only available on 64-bit PowerPC and only when the kernel is configured for 64k pages. The masks are supplied using a new subpage_prot system call, which takes a starting virtual address and length, and a pointer to an array of protection masks in memory. The array has a 32-bit word per 64k page to be protected; each 32-bit word consists of 16 2-bit fields, for which 0 allows any access (that is otherwise allowed), 1 prevents write accesses, and 2 or 3 prevent any access. Implicit in this is that the regions of the address space that are protected are switched to use 4k hardware pages rather than 64k hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64k page support). In fact the whole process is switched to use 4k hardware pages when the subpage_prot system call is used, but this could be improved in future to switch only the affected segments. The subpage protection bits are stored in a 3 level tree akin to the page table tree. The top level of this tree is stored in a structure that is appended to the top level of the page table tree, i.e., the pgd array. Since it will often only be 32-bit addresses (below 4GB) that are protected, the pointers to the first four bottom level pages are also stored in this structure (each bottom level page contains the protection bits for 1GB of address space), so the protection bits for addresses below 4GB can be accessed with one fewer loads than those for higher addresses. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 17 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jon Tollefson 提交于
This adds the hugepagesz boot-time parameter for ppc64. It lets one pick the size for huge pages. The choices available are 64K and 16M when the base page size is 4k. It defaults to 16M (previously the only only choice) if nothing or an invalid choice is specified. Tested 64K huge pages successfully with the libhugetlbfs 1.2. Signed-off-by: NJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 15 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Commit 473980a9 added a call to clear the SLB shadow buffer before registering it. Unfortunately this means that we clear out the entries that slb_initialize has previously set in there. On POWER6, the hypervisor uses the SLB shadow buffer when doing partition switches, and that means that after the next partition switch, each non-boot CPU has no SLB entries to map the kernel text and data, which causes it to crash. This fixes it by reverting most of 473980a9 and instead clearing the 3rd entry explicitly in slb_initialize. This fixes the problem that 473980a9 was trying to solve, but without breaking POWER6. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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