1. 13 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 16 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Lazy interrupt disabling for 64-bit machines · d04c56f7
      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>
      d04c56f7
  3. 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  4. 02 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: use init_utsname when appropriate · 96b644bd
      Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
      In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns is the
      appropriate one to use.  This patch replaces those with a the init_utsname
      helper.
      
      Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname().  Hope I picked all the
      	right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.  These are now changed to
      	utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous
      	patch (2/7)
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: CIFS fix]
      Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
      Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      96b644bd
  5. 01 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 13 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 31 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 13 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 03 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change platforms to use it · 0ebfff14
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      This adds the new irq remapper core and removes the old one.  Because
      there are some fundamental conflicts with the old code, like the value
      of NO_IRQ which I'm now setting to 0 (as per discussions with Linus),
      etc..., this commit also changes the relevant platform and driver code
      over to use the new remapper (so as not to cause difficulties later
      in bisecting).
      
      This patch removes the old pre-parsing of the open firmware interrupt
      tree along with all the bogus assumptions it made to try to renumber
      interrupts according to the platform. This is all to be handled by the
      new code now.
      
      For the pSeries XICS interrupt controller, a single remapper host is
      created for the whole machine regardless of how many interrupt
      presentation and source controllers are found, and it's set to match
      any device node that isn't a 8259.  That works fine on pSeries and
      avoids having to deal with some of the complexities of split source
      controllers vs. presentation controllers in the pSeries device trees.
      
      The powerpc i8259 PIC driver now always requests the legacy interrupt
      range. It also has the feature of being able to match any device node
      (including NULL) if passed no device node as an input. That will help
      porting over platforms with broken device-trees like Pegasos who don't
      have a proper interrupt tree.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      0ebfff14
  10. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 29 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Make sure smp_processor_id works very early in boot · 33dbcf72
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      There's a small period early in boot where we don't know which cpu we're
      running on. That's ok, except that it means we have no paca, or more
      correctly that our paca pointer points somewhere random.
      
      So that we can safely call things like smp_processor_id(), we need a paca,
      so just assume we're on cpu 0. No code should _write_ to the paca before
      we've set the correct one up.
      
      We setup the proper paca after we've scanned the flat device tree in
      early_setup(), so there's no need to do it again in start_here_common.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      33dbcf72
  12. 28 6月, 2006 3 次提交
  13. 19 5月, 2006 4 次提交
  14. 05 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 28 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 02 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  17. 29 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  18. 28 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers · e8222502
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
      powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism.  With this,
      board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
      macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
      device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.
      
      We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
      _machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants.  This commit also
      changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
      _machine.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      e8222502
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      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
  19. 27 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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      powerpc: Unify the 32 and 64 bit idle loops · a0652fc9
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This unifies the 32-bit (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc) and 64-bit idle
      loops.  It brings over the concept of having a ppc_md.power_save
      function from 32-bit to ARCH=powerpc, which lets us get rid of
      native_idle().  With this we will also be able to simplify the idle
      handling for pSeries and cell.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a0652fc9
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Allow non zero boot cpuids · 4df20460
      Anton Blanchard 提交于
      We currently have a hack to flip the boot cpu and its secondary thread
      to logical cpuid 0 and 1. This means the logical - physical mapping will
      differ depending on which cpu is boot cpu. This is most apparent on
      kexec, where we might kexec on any cpu and therefore change the mapping
      from boot to boot.
      
      The patch below does a first pass early on to work out the logical cpuid
      of the boot thread. We then fix up some paca structures to match.
      
      Ive also removed the boot_cpuid_phys variable for ppc64, to be
      consistent we use get_hard_smp_processor_id(boot_cpuid) everywhere.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      4df20460
  20. 22 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 20 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  22. 07 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 11 1月, 2006 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc/64: per cpu data optimisations · 7a0268fa
      Anton Blanchard 提交于
      The current ppc64 per cpu data implementation is quite slow. eg:
      
              lhz 11,18(13)           /* smp_processor_id() */
              ld 9,.LC63-.LCTOC1(30)  /* per_cpu__variable_name */
              ld 8,.LC61-.LCTOC1(30)  /* __per_cpu_offset */
              sldi 11,11,3            /* form index into __per_cpu_offset */
              mr 10,9
              ldx 9,11,8              /* __per_cpu_offset[smp_processor_id()] */
              ldx 0,10,9              /* load per cpu data */
      
      5 loads for something that is supposed to be fast, pretty awful. One
      reason for the large number of loads is that we have to synthesize 2
      64bit constants (per_cpu__variable_name and __per_cpu_offset).
      
      By putting __per_cpu_offset into the paca we can avoid the 2 loads
      associated with it:
      
              ld 11,56(13)            /* paca->data_offset */
              ld 9,.LC59-.LCTOC1(30)  /* per_cpu__variable_name */
              ldx 0,9,11              /* load per cpu data
      
      Longer term we can should be able to do even better than 3 loads.
      If per_cpu__variable_name wasnt a 64bit constant and paca->data_offset
      was in a register we could cut it down to one load. A suggestion from
      Rusty is to use gcc's __thread extension here. In order to do this we
      would need to free up r13 (the __thread register and where the paca
      currently is). So far Ive had a few unsuccessful attempts at doing that :)
      
      The patch also allocates per cpu memory node local on NUMA machines.
      This patch from Rusty has been sitting in my queue _forever_ but stalled
      when I hit the compiler bug. Sorry about that.
      
      Finally I also only allocate per cpu data for possible cpus, which comes
      straight out of the x86-64 port. On a pseries kernel (with NR_CPUS == 128)
      and 4 possible cpus we see some nice gains:
      
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
      Mem:       4012228     212860    3799368          0          0 162424
      
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
      Mem:       4016200     212984    3803216          0          0 162424
      
      A saving of 3.75MB. Quite nice for smaller machines. Note: we now have
      to be careful of per cpu users that touch data for !possible cpus.
      
      At this stage it might be worth making the NUMA and possible cpu
      optimisations generic, but per cpu init is done so early we have to be
      careful that all architectures have their possible map setup correctly.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      7a0268fa
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Make early debugging configurable via Kconfig · 296167ae
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      This patch adds Kconfig entries to control the early debugging options,
      currently in setup_64.c.
      
      Doing this via Kconfig rather than #defines means you can have one source tree,
      which is buildable for multiple platforms - and you can enable the correct
      early debug option for each platform via .config.
      
      I made udbg_early_init() a static inline because otherwise GCC is to daft to
      optimise it away when debugging is off.
      
      Now that we have udbg_init_rtas() we can make call_rtas_display_status* static.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      296167ae
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Early debugging support for iSeries · bf6a7112
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      Connect iSeries up to the standard early debugging infrastructure.
      
      To actually use this you need to enable the iSeries early debugging
      in setup_64.c. Then after the messages are logged hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-x on
      your console to dump the Hypervisor console buffer.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      bf6a7112
  24. 10 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  25. 09 1月, 2006 6 次提交