- 09 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
RTAS should never cause an exception but if it does (for example accessing outside our RMO) then we might go a long way through the kernel before oopsing. If we unset MSR_RI we should at least stop things on exception exit. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 28 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
If CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES isn't defined we end up with iseries_check_pending_irqs and do_work at the same address. perf ends up picking iseries_check_pending_irqs which creates confusing backtraces. Hide it. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 27 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Based on an original patch by Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com> Use preempt_schedule_irq to prevent infinite irq-entry and eventual stack overflow problems with fast-paced IRQ sources. This kind of problems has been observed on the PASemi Electra IDE controller. We have to make sure we are soft-disabled before calling preempt_schedule_irq and hard disable interrupts after that to avoid unrecoverable exceptions. This patch also moves the "clrrdi r9,r1,THREAD_SHIFT" out of the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E scope, since r9 is clobbered and has to be restored in both cases. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 14 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
The mod_return_to_handler needs to switch to the kernel TOC before jumping to a the kernel code. It currently does this by looking at the kernel function data and retrieves the TOC that way. Not only is this inefficient, it also breaks with a relocatable kernel. The PACA contains the kernel TOC and we can easily retrieve it that way. Reported-by: NSachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 21 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 20 8月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This contains all the bits that didn't fit in previous patches :-) This includes the actual exception handlers assembly, the changes to the kernel entry, other misc bits and wiring it all up in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
enter_prom() used to save and restore registers such as CTR, XER etc.. which are volatile, or SRR0,1... which we don't care about. This removes a bunch of useless code and while at it turns an mtmsrd into an MTMSRD macro which will be useful to Book3E. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer. We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc.. and the current choice isn't always the best. This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to what those are used for on each processor family. The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all the SPRGs. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 23 2月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
The TOCS used by modules are different than the one used by the core kernel code. The function graph tracer must save and restore the TOC whenever it traces a module call. But this is an added overhead to burden the majority of core kernel code being traced. Benjamin Herrenschmidt suggested in testing the entry of the call to tell if it is a core kernel function or a module. He recommended using the REGION_ID() macro to perform this test. This patch implements Benjamin's idea, and uses a different return_to_handler routine dependent on if the entry is a core kernel function or not. The module version saves the TOC, where as the core kernel version does not. Geoff Lavand tested on PS3. Tested-by: NGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
This is the port of the function graph tracer to PowerPC with dynamic tracing. Geoff Lavand tested on PS3. Tested-by: NGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by Frederic Weisbecker for the x86. This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing. PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later. The trace produces a visual calling of functions: # tracer: function_graph # # CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS # | | | | | | | 0) 2.224 us | } 0) ! 271.024 us | } 0) ! 320.080 us | } 0) ! 324.656 us | } 0) ! 329.136 us | } 0) | .put_prev_task_fair() { 0) | .update_curr() { 0) 2.240 us | .update_min_vruntime(); 0) 6.512 us | } 0) 2.528 us | .__enqueue_entity(); 0) + 15.536 us | } 0) | .pick_next_task_fair() { 0) 2.032 us | .__pick_next_entity(); 0) 2.064 us | .__clear_buddies(); 0) | .set_next_entity() { 0) 2.672 us | .__dequeue_entity(); 0) 6.864 us | } Geoff Lavand tested on PS3. Tested-by: NGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 01 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
It turns out that on Cell, on a kernel with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, if a program sets the SO (summary overflow) bit in the XER and then does a system call, the SO bit in CR0 will be set on return regardless of whether the system call detected an error. Since CR0.SO is used as the error indication from the system call, this means that all system calls appear to fail. The reason is that the workaround for the timebase bug on Cell uses a compare instruction. With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, the ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY macro reads the timebase, so we end up doing a compare instruction, which copies XER.SO to CR0.SO. Since we were doing this in the system call entry patch after clearing CR0.SO but before saving the CR, this meant that the saved CR image had CR0.SO set if XER.SO was set on entry. This fixes it by moving the clearing of CR0.SO to after the ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY call in the system call entry path. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 28 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: quicken mcount calls that are not replaced by dyn ftrace Dynamic ftrace no longer does on the fly recording of mcount locations. The mcount locations are now found at compile time. The mcount function no longer needs to store registers and call a stub function. It can now just simply return. Since there are some functions that do not get converted to a nop (.init sections and other code that may disappear), this patch should help speed up that code. Also, the stub for mcount on PowerPC 32 can not be a simple branch link register like it is on PowerPC 64. According to the ABI specification: "The _mcount routine is required to restore the link register from the stack so that the profiling code can be inserted transparently, whether or not the profiled function saves the link register itself." This means that we must restore the link register that was used to make the call to mcount. The minimal mcount function for PPC32 ends up being: mcount: mflr r0 mtctr r0 lwz r0, 4(r1) mtlr r0 bctr Where we move the link register used to call mcount into the ctr register, and then restore the link register from the stack. Then we use the ctr register to jump back to the mcount caller. The r0 register is free for us to use. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Using LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE to get the address of kernel symbols generates 5 instructions where LOAD_REG_ADDR can do it in one, and will generate R_PPC64_ADDR16_* relocations in the output when we get to making the kernel as a position-independent executable, which we'd rather not have to handle. This changes various bits of assembly code to use LOAD_REG_ADDR when we need to get the address of a symbol, or to use suitable position-independent code for cases where we can't access the TOC for various reasons, or if we're not running at the address we were linked at. It also cleans up a few minor things; there's no reason to save and restore SRR0/1 around RTAS calls, __mmu_off can get the return address from LR more conveniently than the caller can supply it in R4 (and we already assume elsewhere that EA == RA if the MMU is on in early boot), and enable_64b_mode was using 5 instructions where 2 would do. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 20 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
There is a small passage of code in ret_from_except_lite which is only required on iSeries. For a multi-platform kernel on non-iSeries machines this means we end up executing ~15 nops in ret_from_except_lite. It would be nicer if non-iSeries could skip the code entirely, and on iSeries we can jump out of line to execute the code. I have no performance numbers to justify this, other than the assertion that executing 15 nops takes longer than executing 0. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 28 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This adds TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support for powerpc. When set, we call tracehook_notify_resume() on the way to user mode. This overloads do_signal() to do the work, but changes its arguments to it has the TIF_* bits handy in a register and drops the useless first argument that was always zero. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This changes powerpc syscall tracing to use the new tracehook.h entry points. There is no change, only cleanup. In addition, the assembly changes allow do_syscall_trace_enter() to abort the syscall without losing the information about the original r0 value. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 01 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the VSX load/stores when VSX is available. This will make FP context save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available, as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits. Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state. The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31 doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers. Backward compatibility is maintained. The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full registers. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
Use an alternative feature section in _switch. There are three cases handled here, either we don't have an SLB, in which case we jump over the entire code section, or if we do we either do or don't have 1TB segments. Boot tested on Power3, Power5 and Power5+. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Abhishek Sagar 提交于
Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64 record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd. Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
This patch adds full support for ftrace for PowerPC (both 64 and 32 bit). This includes dynamic tracing and function filtering. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 18 4月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This adds the low level irq tracing hooks to the powerpc architecture needed to enable full lockdep functionality. This is partly based on Johannes Berg's initial version. I removed the asm trampoline that isn't needed (thus improving performance) and modified all sorts of bits and pieces, reworking most of the assembly, etc... Signed-off-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
This moves various definitions used all over the place to parse stack frames to ptrace.h so only one definition is needed. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Olof Johansson 提交于
PA6T has a bug where the slbie instruction does not honor the large segment bit. As a result, we have to always use slbia when switching context. We don't have to worry about changing the slbie's during fault processing, since they should never be replacing one VSID with another using the same ESID. I.e. there's no risk for inserting duplicate entries due to a failed slbie of the old entry. So as long as we clear it out on context switch we should be fine. Signed-off-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 12 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them (currently POWER5+, POWER6 and PA6T). We detect that the machine supports 1TB segments by looking at the ibm,processor-segment-sizes property in the device tree. We don't currently use 1TB segments for user addresses < 1T, since that would effectively prevent 32-bit processes from using huge pages unless we also had a way to revert to using 256MB segments. That would be possible but would involve extra complications (such as keeping track of which segment size was used when HPTEs were inserted) and is not addressed here. Parts of this patch were originally written by Ben Herrenschmidt. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 19 9月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
After talking to an IBM POWER hypervisor (PHYP) design and development guy, there seems to be no need for memory barriers when updating the SLB shadow buffer provided we only update it from the current CPU, which we do. Also, these guys see no need in the future for these barriers. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 03 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
On a machine with hardware 64kB pages and a kernel configured for a 64kB base page size, we need to change the vmalloc segment from 64kB pages to 4kB pages if some driver creates a non-cacheable mapping in the vmalloc area. However, we never updated with SLB shadow buffer. This fixes it. Thanks to paulus for finding this. Also added some write barriers to ensure the shadow buffer contents are always consistent. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 01 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Stephane Eranian 提交于
Remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for all processor architectures. The flag was not used excecpt on IA-64 where the patch replaces it with TIF_PERFMON_WORK. Signed-off-by: Nstephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.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, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Some instruction tracing tools use the RI (recoverable interrupt) bit in the MSR to indicate when it's safe to single-step. Currently we clear RI after restoring r13 when returning to userspace. However, if we single-step past the point where r13 is restored, we'll corrupt r13 in the exception entry code and not restore it. This moves the clearing of RI to just before r13 is restored so this doesn't happen. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 09 1月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
When we switched over to the generic BUG mechanism we forgot to change the assembly code which open-codes a WARN_ON() in enter_rtas(), so the bug table got corrupted. This patch provides an EMIT_BUG_ENTRY macro for use in assembly code, and uses it in entry_64.S. Tested with CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE on ppc64 but not without -- I tried to turn it off but it wouldn't go away; I suspect Aunt Tillie probably needed it. This version gets __FILE__ and __LINE__ right in the assembly version -- rather than saying include/asm-powerpc/bug.h line 21 every time which is a little suboptimal. Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 04 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
Commit 3ccfc65c missed the same fixes for legacy iSeries specific code, so make some more symbols no longer global. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 13 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 s.hauer@pengutronix.de 提交于
Since iSeries is merged to MULTIPLATFORM, there is no way to build a 64bit kernel without MULTIPLATFORM, so PPC_MULTIPLATFORM can be removed in 64bit-only files. Signed-off-by: NSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 18 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
The lazy IRQ disable patch missed a couple of places where the interrupt enable flags need to be restored correctly. First, we weren't restoring the paca->hard_enabled flag on interrupt exit. Instead of saving it on entry, we compute it from the MSR_EE bit in the MSR we are restoring at exit. Secondly, the MMU hash miss code was clearing both paca->soft_enabled and paca->hard_enabled but not restoring them in the case where hash_page was able to resolve the miss from the Linux page tables. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 16 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This implements a lazy strategy for disabling interrupts. This means that local_irq_disable() et al. just clear the 'interrupts are enabled' flag in the paca. If an interrupt comes along, the interrupt entry code notices that interrupts are supposed to be disabled, and clears the EE bit in SRR1, clears the 'interrupts are hard-enabled' flag in the paca, and returns. This means that interrupts only actually get disabled in the processor when an interrupt comes along. When interrupts are enabled by local_irq_enable() et al., the code sets the interrupts-enabled flag in the paca, and then checks whether interrupts got hard-disabled. If so, it also sets the EE bit in the MSR to hard-enable the interrupts. This has the potential to improve performance, and also makes it easier to make a kernel that can boot on iSeries and on other 64-bit machines, since this lazy-disable strategy is very similar to the soft-disable strategy that iSeries already uses. This version renames paca->proc_enabled to paca->soft_enabled, and changes a couple of soft-disables in the kexec code to hard-disables, which should fix the crash that Michael Ellerman saw. This doesn't yet use a reserved CR field for the soft_enabled and hard_enabled flags. This applies on top of Stephen Rothwell's patches to make it possible to build a combined iSeries/other kernel. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 03 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
and use it an all the obvious places in assembler code. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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- 25 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Cleanup some of the #define magic as suggested by Milton. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 08 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
This adds a shadow buffer for the SLBs and regsiters it with PHYP. Only the bolted SLB entries (top 3) are shadowed. The SLB shadow buffer tells the hypervisor what the kernel needs to have in the SLB for the kernel to be able to function. The hypervisor can use this information to speed up partition context switches. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Jörn Engel 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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