- 27 6月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Grant Likely 提交于
There are a bunch of users open coding the for_each_node_by_name() by calling of_find_node_by_name() directly instead of using the macro. This is getting in the way of some cleanups, and the possibility of removing of_find_node_by_name() entirely. Clean it up so that all the users are consistent. Signed-off-by: NGrant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 05 6月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
The pseries platform code unconditionally overrides memory_block_size_bytes regardless of the running platform. Create a ppc_md hook that so each platform can choose to do what it wants. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 01 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Tony Breeds 提交于
Signed-off-by: NTony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 30 4月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Rob Herring 提交于
Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return value const and the property length ptr type an int. Signed-off-by: NRob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Tested-by: NMichal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Tested-by: NGrant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Tested-by: NStephen Chivers <schivers@csc.com>
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- 11 2月, 2014 2 次提交
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由 Nicolas Pitre 提交于
The core idle loop now takes care of it. However a few things need checking: - Invocation of cpuidle_idle_call() in pseries_lpar_idle() happened through arch_cpu_idle() and was therefore always preceded by a call to ppc64_runlatch_off(). To preserve this property now that cpuidle_idle_call() is invoked directly from core code, a call to ppc64_runlatch_off() has been added to idle_loop_prolog() in platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c. - Similarly, cpuidle_idle_call() was followed by ppc64_runlatch_off() so a call to the later has been added to idle_loop_epilog(). - And since arch_cpu_idle() always made sure to re-enable IRQs if they were not enabled, this is now done in idle_loop_epilog() as well. The above was made in order to keep the execution flow close to the original. I don't know if that was strictly necessary. Someone well aquainted with the platform details might find some room for possible optimizations. Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: NPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-47o4m03citrfg9y1vxic5asb@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Disable relocation on exception while going down even in kdump case. This is because we are about clear htab mappings while kexec-ing into kdump kernel and we may run into issues if we still have AIL ON. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 30 12月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Alistair Popple 提交于
The powerpc iommu uses a hardcoded page size of 4K. This patch changes the name of the IOMMU_PAGE_* macros to reflect the hardcoded values. A future patch will use the existing names to support dynamic page sizes. Signed-off-by: NAlistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Signed-off-by: NAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 26 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Jason Baron 提交于
Default CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT to 180 seconds on powerpc. The pSeries continue to set the timeout to 10 seconds at run-time. Thus, there's a small window where we don't have the correct value on pSeries, but if this is only run-time discoverable we don't have a better option. In any case, if the user changes the default setting of 180 seconds, we honor that user setting. Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: felipe.contreras@gmail.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/705bbe0f70fb20759151642ba0176a6414ec9f7a.1385418410.git.jbaron@akamai.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 21 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
On little endian builds call H_SET_MODE so exceptions have the correct endianness. We need to reset the endian during kexec so do that in the MMU hashtable clear callback. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 11 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 提交于
When adding cpuidle support to pSeries, we introduced two regressions: - The new cpuidle backend driver only works under hypervisors supporting the "SLPLAR" option, which isn't the case of the old POWER4 hypervisor and the HV "light" used on js2x blades - The cpuidle driver registers fairly late, meaning that for a significant portion of the boot process, we end up having all threads spinning. This slows down the boot process and increases the overall resource usage if the hypervisor has shared processors. This fixes both by implementing a "default" idle that will cede to the hypervisor when possible, in a very simple way without all the bells and whisles of cpuidle. Reported-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NVaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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- 27 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Deepthi Dharwar 提交于
As a part of pseries_idle backend driver cleanup to make the code common to both pseries and powernv platforms, it is necessary to move the backend-driver code to drivers/cpuidle. As a pre-requisite for that, it is essential to move plpar_wrapper.h to include/asm. Signed-off-by: NDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 14 8月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
The lppaca, slb_shadow and dtl_entry hypervisor structures are big endian, so we have to byte swap them in little endian builds. LE KVM hosts will also need to be fixed but for now add an #error to remind us. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
Address some of the trivial sparse warnings in arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 06 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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On pseries machines the detection for max_bus_speed should be done through an OpenFirmware property. This patch adds a function to perform this detection and a hook to perform dynamic adding of the function only for pseries. This is done by overwriting the weak pcibios_root_bridge_prepare function which is called by pci_create_root_bus(). From: Lucas Kannebley Tavares <lucaskt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NKleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 26 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Nathan Fontenot 提交于
The firmware_has_feature() function makes it easy to check for supported features of the hypervisor. This patch extends the capability of firmware_has_feature() to include checking for specified bits in vector 5 of the architecture vector as reported in the device tree. As part of this the #defines used for the architecture vector are re-defined such that each option has the index into vector 5 and the feature bit encoded into it. This makes checking for architecture bits when initiating data for firmware_has_feature much easier. Signed-off-by: NNathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 28 1月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be able to account the cputime without using the tick. Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by hooking into kernel/user boundaries. However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick outside idle. This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks. There are some upsides of doing this: - This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full tickless mode). - We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically (de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically. And one downside: - There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 10 1月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
This adds DAWR supoprt to the set_break(). It does both bare metal and PAPR versions of setting the DAWR. There is still some work we can do to make full use of the watchpoint but that will come later. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Ian Munsie 提交于
For PR KVM we allow userspace to map 0xc000000000000000. Because transitioning from userspace to the guest kernel may use the relocated exception vectors we have to disable relocation on exceptions whenever PR KVM is active as we cannot trust that address. This issue does not apply to HV KVM, since changing from a guest to the hypervisor will never use the relocated exception vectors. Currently the hypervisor interface only allows us to toggle relocation on exceptions on a partition wide scope, so we need to globally disable relocation on exceptions when the first PR KVM instance is started and only re-enable them when all PR KVM instances have been destroyed. It's a bit heavy handed, but until the hypervisor gives us a lightweight way to toggle relocation on exceptions on a single thread it's only real option. Signed-off-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 15 11月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Ian Munsie 提交于
Since we don't know if they new kernel we are kexecing into has been built to support relocation on exceptions, we disable them before we kexec. We do NOT disable them if we are execing a kdump kernel, because we want to change as little state as possible and it is likely that we are execing ourselves and will be able to handle them anyway. Signed-off-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Ian Munsie 提交于
We currently do this synchronously at boot from setup_arch. On a large system this could hypothetically take a little while to complete, so currently we will give up if we are asked to wait for more than a second in total. If we actually start hitting that timeout in practice we can always move this code into a kernel thread to take care of it in the background. Signed-off-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Nathan Fontenot 提交于
This patch moves the notification chain for updates to the device tree from the powerpc/pseries code to the base OF code. This makes this functionality available to all architectures. Additionally the notification chain is updated to allow notifications for property add/remove/update. To make this work a pointer to a new struct (of_prop_reconfig) is passed to the routines in the notification chain. The of_prop_reconfig property contains a pointer to the node containing the property and a pointer to the property itself. In the case of property updates, the property pointer refers to the new property. Signed-off-by: NNathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Acked-by: NGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 10 9月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Currently we mark the DABRX to interrupt on all matches (hypervisor/kernel/user and then filter in software. We can be a lot smarter now that we can set the DABRX dynamically. This sets the DABRX based on the flags passed by the user. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Rework set_dabr to take a DABRX value as well. Both the pseries and PS3 hypervisors do some checks on the DABRX values that are passed in the hcall. This patch stops bogus values from being passed to hypervisor. Also, in the case where we are clearing the breakpoint, where DABR and DABRX are zero, we modify the DABRX value to make it valid so that the hcall won't fail. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Gavin Shan 提交于
Currently, we have 3 phases for EEH initialization on pSeries platform. All of them are done through builtin functions: platform initialization, EEH device creation, and EEH subsystem enablement. All of them are done no later than ppc_md.setup_arch. That means that the slab/slub isn't ready yet, so we have to allocate memory chunks on basis of PAGE_SIZE for those dynamically created EEH devices. That's pretty expensive. In order to utilize slab/slub for memory allocation, we have to move the EEH initialization functions around, but all of them should be called after slab is ready. Signed-off-by: NGavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 07 9月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
We never use the XDABR hcall since we check for DABR hcall first. XDABR syscall is better since it allows us to also set the DABRX. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 3月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Gavin Shan 提交于
Original EEH implementation depends on struct pci_dn heavily. However, EEH shouldn't depend on that actually because EEH needn't share much information with other PCI components. That's to say, EEH should have worked independently. The patch introduces struct eeh_dev so that EEH core components needn't be working based on struct pci_dn in future. Also, struct pci_dn, struct eeh_dev instances are created in dynamic fasion and the binding with EEH device, OF node, PCI device is implemented as well. The EEH devices are created after PHBs are detected and initialized, but PCI emunation hasn't started yet. Apart from that, PHB might be created dynamically through DLPAR component and the EEH devices should be creatd as well. Another case might be OF node is created dynamically by DR (Dynamic Reconfiguration), which has been defined by PAPR. For those OF nodes created by DR, EEH devices should be also created accordingly. The binding between EEH device and OF node is done while the EEH device is initially created. The binding between EEH device and PCI device should be done after PCI emunation is done. Besides, PCI hotplug also needs the binding so that the EEH devices could be traced from the newly coming PCI buses or PCI devices. Signed-off-by: NGavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Gavin Shan 提交于
EEH has been implemented on RTAS-compliant pSeries platform. That's to say, the EEH operations will be implemented through RTAS calls eventually. The situation limited feasible extension on EEH. In order to support EEH on multiple platforms like pseries and powernv simutaneously. We have to split the platform dependent EEH options up out of current implementation. The patch addresses supporting EEH on multiple platforms. The pseries platform dependent EEH operations will be abstracted by struct eeh_ops. EEH core components will be built based on the registered EEH operations. With the mechanism, what the individual platform needs to do is implement platform dependent EEH operations. For now, the pseries platform is covered under the mechanism. That means we have to think about other platforms to support EEH, like powernv. Besides, we only have framework for the mechanism and we have to implement it for pseries platform later. Signed-off-by: NGavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 24 2月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Bjorn Helgaas 提交于
We already use pci_flags, so this just sets pci_flags directly and removes the intermediate step of figuring out pci_probe_only, then using it to set pci_flags. The PCI core provides a pci_flags definition (currently __weak), so drop the powerpc definitions in favor of that. CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
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由 Bjorn Helgaas 提交于
pci_probe_only is set on ppc64 to prevent resource re-allocation by the core. It's meant to be used in very specific circumstances such as when operating under a hypervisor that may prevent such re-allocation. Instead of default to 1, we make it default to 0 and explicitly set it in the few cases where we need it. This fixes FSL PCI which wants it clear among others. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
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- 23 2月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
There are two separate flags controlling whether or not the MPIC is reset during initialization, which is completely unnecessary, and only one of them can be specified in the device tree. Also, most platforms in-tree right now do actually want to reset the MPIC during initialization anyways, which means lots of duplicate code passing the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag. Fix all of the callers which currently do not pass the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag to pass the MPIC_NO_RESET flag, then remove the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag and make the code reset the MPIC by default. Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
The mpic->irq_count variable is only used as a software error-checking limit to determine whether or not an IRQ number is valid. In board code which does not manually specify an IRQ count to mpic_alloc(), i.e. 0, it is automatically detected from the number of ISUs and the ISU size. In practice, all hardware ends up with irq_count == num_sources, so all of the runtime checks on mpic->irq_count should just check the value of mpic->num_sources instead. When platform hardware does not correctly report the number of IRQs, which only happens on the MPC85xx/MPC86xx, the MPIC_BROKEN_FRR_NIRQS flag is used to override the detected value of num_sources with the manual irq_count parameter. Since there's no need to manually specify the number of IRQs except in this case, the extra flag can be eliminated and the test changed to "irq_count != 0". Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 08 12月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
We've had a 180 second panic timeout on ppc64 for as long as I can remember. This patch reduces it to 10 seconds on pseries for a few reasons: - Almost all pseries machines have a hypervisor console so panic output will be available in a scrollback buffer. - The 180 seconds impacts our availability, users (other than kernel hackers) just want the box to come back around so it can continue its work. - I spend a lot of my life staring at the 180 second panic timeout. Many pseries machines take minutes to power cycle, so it's quicker to sit through the 180 seconds than it is to power cycle. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Deepthi Dharwar 提交于
This patch enables cpuidle for pSeries and pSeries_idle is directly called from the idle loop. As a result of pSeries_idle, cpuidle driver registered with cpuidle subsystem comes into action. On failure of loading of the driver or cpuidle framework default idle is executed as part of the function. This patch also removes the routines pseries_shared_idle_sleep and pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep as they are now implemented as part of pseries_idle cpuidle driver. Signed-off-by: NDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NTrinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NArun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Deepthi Dharwar 提交于
This patch implements a back-end cpuidle driver for pSeries based on pseries_dedicated_idle_loop and pseries_shared_idle_loop routines. The driver is built only if CONFIG_CPU_IDLE is set. This cpuidle driver uses global registration of idle states and not per-cpu. Signed-off-by: NDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NTrinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NArun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 07 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
It turns out that there are only 2 in-tree platforms which use MPICs which are not "primary": IBM Cell and PowerMac. To reduce the complexity of the typical board setup code, invert the MPIC_PRIMARY bit into MPIC_SECONDARY. Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 01 11月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Paul Gortmaker 提交于
All these files were including module.h just for the basic EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure. We can shift them off to the export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus realize some compile time gains. Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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- 05 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
Make the VPA, SLB shadow and DTL registration and deregistration functions print consistent messages on error. I needed the firmware error code while chasing a kexec bug but we weren't printing it. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 29 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
On pseries machines, consoles are provided by the hypervisor using a low level get_chars/put_chars type interface. However, this is really just a transport to the service processor which implements them either as "raw" console (networked consoles, HMC, ...) or as "hvsi" serial ports. The later is a simple packet protocol on top of the raw character interface that is supposed to convey additional "serial port" style semantics. In practice however, all it does is provide a way to read the CD line and set/clear our DTR line, that's it. We currently implement the "raw" protocol as an hvc console backend (/dev/hvcN) and the "hvsi" protocol using a separate tty driver (/dev/hvsi0). However this is quite impractical. The arbitrary difference between the two type of devices has been a major source of user (and distro) confusion. Additionally, there's an additional mini -hvsi implementation in the pseries platform code for our low level debug console and early boot kernel messages, which means code duplication, though that low level variant is impractical as it's incapable of doing the initial protocol negociation to establish the link to the FSP. This essentially replaces the dedicated hvsi driver and the platform udbg code completely by extending the existing hvc_vio backend used in "raw" mode so that: - It now supports HVSI as well - We add support for hvc backend providing tiocm{get,set} - It also provides a udbg interface for early debug and boot console This is overall less code, though this will only be obvious once we remove the old "hvsi" driver, which is still available for now. When the old driver is enabled, the new code still kicks in for the low level udbg console, replacing the old mini implementation in the platform code, it just doesn't provide the higher level "hvc" interface. In addition to producing generally simler code, this has several benefits over our current situation: - The user/distro only has to deal with /dev/hvcN for the hypervisor console, avoiding all sort of confusion that has plagued us in the past - The tty, kernel and low level debug console all use the same code base which supports the full protocol establishment process, thus the console is now available much earlier than it used to be with the old HVSI driver. The kernel console works much earlier and udbg is available much earlier too. Hackers can enable a hard coded very-early debug console as well that works with HVSI (previously that was only supported for the "raw" mode). I've tried to keep the same semantics as hvsi relative to how I react to things like CD changes, with some subtle differences though: - I clear DTR on close if HUPCL is set - Current hvsi triggers a hangup if it detects a up->down transition on CD (you can still open a console with CD down). My new implementation triggers a hangup if the link to the FSP is severed, and severs it upon detecting a up->down transition on CD. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 19 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Nishanth Aravamudan 提交于
Future releases of fimrware will enforce a requirement that DTL buffers do not cross a 4k boundary. Commit 127493d5 satisfies this requirement for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y kernels, but if !CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && CONFIG_DTL=y, the current code will fail at dtl registration time. Fix this by making the kmem cache from 127493d5 visible outside of setup.c and using the same cache in both dtl.c and setup.c. This requires a bit of reorganization to ensure ordering of the kmem cache and buffer allocations. Note: Since firmware now limits the size of the buffer, I made dtl_buf_entries read-only in debugfs. Tested with upcoming firmware with the 4 combinations of CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_DTL. Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 04 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Brian King 提交于
Adds support for page coalescing, which is a feature on IBM Power servers which allows for coalescing identical pages between logical partitions. Hint text pages as coalesce candidates, since they are the most likely pages to be able to be coalesced between partitions. This patch also exports some page coalescing statistics available from firmware via lparcfg. [BenH: Moved a couple of things around to fix compile problems] Signed-off-by: NBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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