1. 28 7月, 2014 2 次提交
  2. 22 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Disable doorbells on Power8 DD1.x · bd6ba351
      Joel Stanley 提交于
      These processors do not currently support doorbell IPIs, so remove them
      from the feature list if we are at DD 1.xx for the 0x004d part.
      
      This fixes a regression caused by d4e58e59 (powerpc/powernv: Enable
      POWER8 doorbell IPIs). With that patch the kernel would hang at boot
      when calling smp_call_function_many, as the doorbell would not be
      received by the target CPUs:
      
        .smp_call_function_many+0x2bc/0x3c0 (unreliable)
        .on_each_cpu_mask+0x30/0x100
        .cpuidle_register_driver+0x158/0x1a0
        .cpuidle_register+0x2c/0x110
        .powernv_processor_idle_init+0x23c/0x2c0
        .do_one_initcall+0xd4/0x260
        .kernel_init_freeable+0x25c/0x33c
        .kernel_init+0x1c/0x120
        .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x58/0x7c
      
      Fixes: d4e58e59 (powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs)
      Signed-off-by: NJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      bd6ba351
  3. 24 3月, 2014 1 次提交
  4. 05 12月, 2013 2 次提交
  5. 21 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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      powerpc/fsl-booke: Work around erratum A-006958 · d52459ca
      Scott Wood 提交于
      Erratum A-006598 says that 64-bit mftb is not atomic -- it's subject
      to a similar race condition as doing mftbu/mftbl on 32-bit.  The lower
      half of timebase is updated before the upper half; thus, we can share
      the workaround for a similar bug on Cell.  This workaround involves
      looping if the lower half of timebase is zero, thus avoiding the need
      for a scratch register (other than CR0).  This workaround must be
      avoided when the timebase is frozen, such as during the timebase sync
      code.
      
      This deals with kernel and vdso accesses, but other userspace accesses
      will of course need to be fixed elsewhere.
      Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
      d52459ca
  6. 10 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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  20. 19 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX · a66086b8
      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
  21. 25 11月, 2011 1 次提交
  22. 12 7月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc, KVM: Split HVMODE_206 cpu feature bit into separate HV and architecture bits · 969391c5
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This replaces the single CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206 bit with two bits, one to
      indicate that we have a usable hypervisor mode, and another to indicate
      that the processor conforms to PowerISA version 2.06.  We also add
      another bit to indicate that the processor conforms to ISA version 2.01
      and set that for PPC970 and derivatives.
      
      Some PPC970 chips (specifically those in Apple machines) have a
      hypervisor mode in that MSR[HV] is always 1, but the hypervisor mode
      is not useful in the sense that there is no way to run any code in
      supervisor mode (HV=0 PR=0).  On these processors, the LPES0 and LPES1
      bits in HID4 are always 0, and we use that as a way of detecting that
      hypervisor mode is not useful.
      
      Where we have a feature section in assembly code around code that
      only applies on POWER7 in hypervisor mode, we use a construct like
      
      END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
      
      The definition of END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET is such that the code will
      be enabled (not overwritten with nops) only if all bits in the
      provided mask are set.
      
      Note that the CPU feature check in __tlbie() only needs to check the
      ARCH_206 bit, not the HVMODE bit, because __tlbie() can only get called
      if we are running bare-metal, i.e. in hypervisor mode.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      969391c5
  23. 19 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  24. 04 5月, 2011 2 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
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      powerpc: Add Initiate Coprocessor Store Word (icswx) support · 851d2e2f
      Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin 提交于
      Icswx is a PowerPC instruction to send data to a co-processor. On Book-S
      processors the LPAR_ID and process ID (PID) of the owning process are
      registered in the window context of the co-processor at initialization
      time. When the icswx instruction is executed the L2 generates a cop-reg
      transaction on PowerBus. The transaction has no address and the
      processor does not perform an MMU access to authenticate the transaction.
      The co-processor compares the LPAR_ID and the PID included in the
      transaction and the LPAR_ID and PID held in the window context to
      determine if the process is authorized to generate the transaction.
      
      The OS needs to assign a 16-bit PID for the process. This cop-PID needs
      to be updated during context switch. The cop-PID needs to be destroyed
      when the context is destroyed.
      Signed-off-by: NSonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTseng-Hui (Frank) Lin <thlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      851d2e2f
  25. 27 4月, 2011 2 次提交
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  28. 02 2月, 2011 1 次提交