IA64 dynamic ftrace support.
The original _mcount stub for each function is like:
	alloc r40=ar.pfs,12,8,0
	mov r43=r0;;
	mov r42=b0
	mov r41=r1
	nop.i 0x0
	br.call.sptk.many b0 = _mcount;;

The patch convert it to below for nop:
	[MII] nop.m 0x0
	mov r3=ip
	nop.i 0x0
	[MLX] nop.m 0x0
	nop.x 0x0;;
This isn't completely nop, as there is one instuction 'mov r3=ip', but
it should be light and harmless for code follow it.

And below is for call
	[MII] nop.m 0x0
	mov r3=ip
	nop.i 0x0
	[MLX] nop.m 0x0
	brl.many .;;
In this way, only one instruction is changed to convert code between nop
and call. This should meet dyn-ftrace's requirement.
But this requires CPU support brl instruction, so dyn-ftrace isn't
supported for old Itanium system. Assume there are quite few such old
system running.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

IA64 ftrace suppport. In IA64, below code will be added in each function
if -pg is enabled.

alloc r40=ar.pfs,12,8,0
mov r43=r0;;
mov r42=b0
mov r41=r1
nop.i 0x0
br.call.sptk.many b0 = _mcount;;
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

These two IOMMUs can implement the current version of this API. So
select the API if one or both of these IOMMU drivers is selected.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Impact: cleanup, change .config option name

We had this ugly config name for a long time for hysteric raisons.
Rename it to a saner name.

We still cannot get rid of it completely, until /proc/<pid>/stack
usage replaces WCHAN usage for good.

We'll be able to do that in the v2.6.29/v2.6.30 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

No functional change, just reorder some config options and update
the "Power management and ACPI" label to match the defacto x86
standard.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Now that all the ia64 mmu pieces are in the tree we can build
support into the generic kernel.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.

The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.

* Examples of usage :

   # mkdir /containers/freezer
   # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
   # mkdir /containers/0
   # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks

to get status of the freezer subsystem :

   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

to freeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FREEZING
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FROZEN

to unfreeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.

It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:

	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
		the freezer.state file
	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
		and returns EIO)
	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The patch contains Intel IOMMU IA64 specific code. It defines new
machvec dig_vtd, hooks for IOMMU, DMAR table detection, cache line flush
function, etc.

For a generic kernel with CONFIG_DMAR=y, if Intel IOMMU is detected,
dig_vtd is used for machinve vector. Otherwise, kernel falls back to
dig machine vector. Kernel parameter "machvec=dig" or "intel_iommu=off"
can be used to force kernel to boot dig machine vector.
Signed-off-by: NFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST, CONFIG_PARAVIRT for
paravirtualized guest.
introduce CONFIG_XEN, CONFIG_IA64_XEN_GUEST for xen.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NIsaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more
appropriate.

Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't
selected by anything seems also at least questionable.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Eliminate trailing backquote in IA64_SGI_UV config.
Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

ia64 has compiled with NR_CPUS=4096 for a couple releases, just forgot
to update Kconfig to allow it.
Signed-off-by: NRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This patch removes the experimental status of kdump on IA64. kdump is on IA64
now since more than one year and it has proven to be stable.
Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This converts ia64 to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single().

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This patch adds the basic IA64 machvec infrastructure to support
the SGI "UV" platform.
Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Introduce new interfaces, dma_*map*_attrs(), for passing architecture-specific
attributes when memory is mapped and unmapped for DMA.  Give the interfaces
default implementations which ignore attributes.  Also introduce the
dma_{set|get}_attr() interfaces for setting and retrieving individual
attributes.  Define one attribute, DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER, in anticipation of
its use by ia64/sn.  Select whether architectures implement arch-specific
versions of the dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces via HAVE_DMA_ATTRS in Kconfig.

[markn@au1.ibm.com: dma_{set,get}_attr() have to be static inline]
Signed-off-by: NArthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NMark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

iommu_is_span_boundary in lib/iommu-helper.c was exported for PARISC IOMMUs
(commit 3715863a).  SWIOTLB can use it instead
of the homegrown function.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Update the related Makefile and KConfig for kvm build
Signed-off-by: NXiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

Move XPC and XPNET from arch/ia64/sn/kernel to drivers/misc/sgi-xp.
Signed-off-by: NDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

IA64's IOMMU implementation allocates memory areas spanning LLD's segment
boundary limit.  It forces low level drivers to have a workaround to adjust
scatter lists that the IOMMU builds.

We are in the process of making all the IOMMUs respect the segment boundary
limits to remove such work around in LLDs.  This patch is for IA64's IOMMU.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Add CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch/<arch>/Kconfig file for relevant
architectures with kprobes support.  This facilitates easy handling of
in-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on
kretprobes being present in the kernel.

Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean.

Per Mathieu's suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies.
Signed-off-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Auto select CONFIG_NUMA and CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA when picking SN2, similar
to how they are selected automatically for CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC.
Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This patch implements VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING for ia64,
which enable us to use more accurate cpu time accounting.

The VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is an item of kernel config, which s390
and powerpc arch have.  By turning this config on, these archs
change the mechanism of cpu time accounting from tick-sampling
based one to state-transition based one.

The state-transition based accounting is done by checking time
(cycle counter in processor) at every state-transition point,
such as entrance/exit of kernel, interrupt, softirq etc.
The difference between point to point is the actual time consumed
during in the state. There is no doubt about that this value is
more accurate than that of tick-sampling based accounting.
Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Commit bdc80787 broke the build
for this config because the sim_defconfig selects CONFIG_HZ=250
but include/asm-ia64/param.h has an ifdef for the simulator to
force HZ to 32.  So we ended up with a kernel/timeconst.h set
for HZ=250 ... which then failed the check for the right HZ
value and died with:

Drop the #ifdef magic from param.h and make force CONFIG_HZ=32
directly for the simulator.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

To allow flexible configuration of IDE introduce HAVE_IDE.
All archs except arm, um and s390 unconditionally select it.
For arm the actual configuration determine if IDE is supported.

This is a step towards introducing drivers/Kconfig for arm.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: NRussell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the
implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel
configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this
place.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Move the instrumentation Kconfig to

arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options
  - oprofile
  - kprobes

and

init/Kconfig for architecture independent options
  - profiling
  - markers

Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup".
Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Linus:

On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like

        depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32

really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.

It would be much better to do

        depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES

in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
have a

        bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                default y

in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
which interface...

Changelog:

Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
it, I realize that I should have told you to just use

        config KPROBES_SUPPORT
                def_bool y

instead, which is a bit denser.

We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
what "def_bool" is there for...

- Use HAVE_KPROBES
- Use a select

- Yet another update :
Moving to HAVE_* now.

- Update ARM for kprobes support.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Linus:
On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like

        depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32

really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.

It would be much better to do

        depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES

in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
have a

        bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                default y

in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
which interface...

Changelog:

Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
it, I realize that I should have told you to just use

        config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                def_bool y

instead, which is a bit denser.

We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
what "def_bool" is there for...

Changelog :

- Moving to HAVE_*.
- Add AVR32 oprofile.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Change:
	config ARCH_SETS_UP_PER_CPU_AREA
to:
	config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The use of the __GENERIC_PERCPU is a bit problematic since arches
may want to run their own percpu setup while using the generic
percpu definitions. Replace it through a kconfig variable.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The break_lock data structure and code for spinlocks is quite nasty.
Not only does it double the size of a spinlock but it changes locking to
a potentially less optimal trylock.

Put all of that under CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and introduce a
__raw_spin_is_contended that uses the lock data itself to determine whether
there are waiters on the lock, to be used if CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is
not set.

Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to
decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks
do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up
with that break_lock then?).
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.

Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

Quoting Randy:

"It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file,
20-something times.  Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into
20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing.

However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make
_one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES,
and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches."
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It makes more sense to make instrumentation support experimental on a
case-by-case basis.
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Logic.
 - set all pages in  [start,end)  as isolated migration-type.
   by this, all free pages in the range will be not-for-use.
 - Migrate all LRU pages in the range.
 - Test all pages in the range's refcnt is zero or not.

Todo:
 - allocate migration destination page from better area.
 - confirm page_count(page)== 0 && PageReserved(page) page is safe to be freed..
 (I don't like this kind of page but..
 - Find out pages which cannot be migrated.
 - more running tests.
 - Use reclaim for unplugging other memory type area.
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-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>

Currently mobility grouping works at the MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES level.  This makes
sense for the majority of users where this is also the huge page size.
However, on platforms like ia64 where the huge page size is runtime
configurable it is desirable to group at a lower order.  On x86_64 and
occasionally on x86, the hugepage size may not always be MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES.

This patch groups pages together based on the value of HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER.  It
uses a compile-time constant if possible and a variable where the huge page
size is runtime configurable.

It is assumed that grouping should be done at the lowest sensible order and
that the user would not want to override this.  If this is not true,
page_block order could be forced to a variable initialised via a boot-time
kernel parameter.

One potential issue with this patch is that IA64 now parses hugepagesz with
early_param() instead of __setup().  __setup() is called after the memory
allocator has been initialised and the pageblock bitmaps already setup.  In
tests on one IA64 there did not seem to be any problem with using
early_param() and in fact may be more correct as it guarantees the parameter
is handled before the parsing of hugepages=.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Equip IA64 sparsemem with a virtual memmap.  This is similar to the existing
CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP functionality for DISCONTIGMEM.  It uses a PAGE_SIZE
mapping.

This is provided as a minimally intrusive solution.  We split the 128TB
VMALLOC area into two 64TB areas and use one for the virtual memmap.

This should replace CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP long term.

[apw@shadowen.org: convert to new helper based initialisation]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This driver for HPQ5001 devices installs a global ACPI OpRegion handler.
AML methods can use this OpRegion to call native firmware entry points.

ACPI does not define a mechanism for AML methods to call native firmware
interfaces such as PAL or SAL.  This OpRegion handler adds such a mechanism.
After the handler is installed, an AML method can call native firmware by
storing the arguments and firmware entry point to specific offsets in the
OpRegion.  When AML reads the "return value" offset from the OpRegion, this
handler loads up the arguments, makes the firmware call, and returns the
result.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>