- 30 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 David Gibson 提交于
Currently each available hugepage size uses a slightly different pagetable layout: that is, the bottem level table of pointers to hugepages is a different size, and may branch off from the normal page tables at a different level. Every hugepage aware path that needs to walk the pagetables must therefore look up the hugepage size from the slice info first, and work out the correct way to walk the pagetables accordingly. Future hardware is likely to add more possible hugepage sizes, more layout options and more mess. This patch, therefore reworks the handling of hugepage pagetables to reduce this complexity. In the new scheme, instead of having to consult the slice mask, pagetable walking code can check a flag in the PGD/PUD/PMD entries to see where to branch off to hugepage pagetables, and the entry also contains the information (eseentially hugepage shift) necessary to then interpret that table without recourse to the slice mask. This scheme can be extended neatly to handle multiple levels of self-describing "special" hugepage pagetables, although for now we assume only one level exists. This approach means that only the pagetable allocation path needs to know how the pagetables should be set out. All other (hugepage) pagetable walking paths can just interpret the structure as they go. There already was a flag bit in PGD/PUD/PMD entries for hugepage directory pointers, but it was only used for debug. We alter that flag bit to instead be a 0 in the MSB to indicate a hugepage pagetable pointer (normally it would be 1 since the pointer lies in the linear mapping). This means that asm pagetable walking can test for (and punt on) hugepage pointers with the same test that checks for unpopulated page directory entries (beq becomes bge), since hugepage pointers will always be positive, and normal pointers always negative. While we're at it, we get rid of the confusing (and grep defeating) #defining of hugepte_shift to be the same thing as mmu_huge_psizes. Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 02 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Brian King 提交于
The SLB can change sizes across a live migration, which was not being handled, resulting in possible machine crashes during migration if migrating to a machine which has a smaller max SLB size than the source machine. Fix this by first reducing the SLB size to the minimum possible value, which is 32, prior to migration. Then during the device tree update which occurs after migration, we make the call to ensure the SLB gets updated. Also add the slb_size to the lparcfg output so that the migration tools can check to make sure the kernel has this capability before allowing migration in scenarios where the SLB size will change. BenH: Fixed #include <asm/mmu-hash64.h> -> <asm/mmu.h> to avoid breaking ppc32 build Signed-off-by: NBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 20 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This adds the PTE and pgtable format definitions, along with changes to the kernel memory map and other definitions related to implementing support for 64-bit Book3E. This also shields some asm-offset bits that are currently only relevant on 32-bit We also move the definition of the "linux" page size constants to the common mmu.h file and add a few sizes that are relevant to embedded processors. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 24 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This moves some MMU related init code out of setup_64.c into hash_utils_64.c and calls it early_init_mmu() and early_init_mmu_secondary(). This will make it easier to plug in a new MMU type. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 01 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
called only from __init, calls __init. Incidentally, it ought to be static in file. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 64-bit by making the kernel as a position-independent executable (PIE) when it is set. This involves processing the dynamic relocations in the image in the early stages of booting, even if the kernel is being run at the address it is linked at, since the linker does not necessarily fill in words in the image for which there are dynamic relocations. (In fact the linker does fill in such words for 64-bit executables, though not for 32-bit executables, so in principle we could avoid calling relocate() entirely when we're running a 64-bit kernel at the linked address.) The dynamic relocations are processed by a new function relocate(addr), where the addr parameter is the virtual address where the image will be run. In fact we call it twice; once before calling prom_init, and again when starting the main kernel. This means that reloc_offset() returns 0 in prom_init (since it has been relocated to the address it is running at), which necessitated a few adjustments. This also changes __va and __pa to use an equivalent definition that is simpler. With the relocatable kernel, PAGE_OFFSET and MEMORY_START are constants (for 64-bit) whereas PHYSICAL_START is a variable (and KERNELBASE ideally should be too, but isn't yet). With this, relocatable kernels still copy themselves down to physical address 0 and run there. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 11 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
The function htab_bolt_mapping() is used to create permanent mappings in the MMU hash table, for example, in order to create the linear mapping of vmemmap. It's also used by early boot ioremap (before mem_init_done). However, the way ioremap uses it is incorrect as it passes it the protection flags in the "linux PTE" form while htab_bolt_mapping() expects them in the hash table format. This is made more confusing by the fact that some of those flags are actually in the same position in both cases. This fixes it all by making htab_bolt_mapping() take normal linux protection flags instead, and use a little helper to convert them to htab flags. Callers can now use the usual PAGE_* definitions safely. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h | 2 - arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 9 +--- 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 25 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Jon Tollefson 提交于
Instead of using the variable mmu_huge_psize to keep track of the huge page size we use an array of MMU_PAGE_* values. For each supported huge page size we need to know the hugepte_shift value and have a pgtable_cache. The hstate or an mmu_huge_psizes index is passed to functions so that they know which huge page size they should use. The hugepage sizes 16M and 64K are setup(if available on the hardware) so that they don't have to be set on the boot cmd line in order to use them. The number of 16G pages have to be specified at boot-time though (e.g. hugepagesz=16G hugepages=5). Signed-off-by: NJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jon Tollefson 提交于
The 16G huge pages have to be reserved in the HMC prior to boot. The location of the pages are placed in the device tree. This patch adds code to scan the device tree during very early boot and save these page locations until hugetlbfs is ready for them. Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the address space, and to configure the page size of that region dynamically at boot. The problem with the current approach of always using 16M pages is that it's not well suited to machines that have small amounts of memory such as small partitions on pseries, or PS3's. In fact, on the PS3, failure to allocate the 16M page backing vmmemmap tends to prevent hotplugging the HV's "additional" memory, thus limiting the available memory even more, from my experience down to something like 80M total, which makes it really not very useable. The logic used by my match to choose the vmemmap page size is: - If 16M pages are available and there's 1G or more RAM at boot, use that size. - Else if 64K pages are available, use that - Else use 4K pages I've tested on a POWER6 (16M pages) and on an iSeries POWER3 (4K pages) and it seems to work fine. Note that I intend to change the way we organize the kernel regions & SLBs so the actual region will change from 0xf back to something else at one point, as I simplify the SLB miss handler, but that will be for a later patch. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 14 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
... instead of having extern declarations in a .c file. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 17 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Kumar Gala 提交于
Moved phys_addr_t out of mmu-*.h and into asm/types.h so we can use it in places that before would have caused recursive includes. For example to use phys_addr_t in <asm/page.h> we would have included <asm/mmu.h> which would have possibly included <asm/mmu-hash64.h> which includes <asm/page.h>. Wheeee recursive include. CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT is a bit counterintuitive in light of ppc64 systems and thus the config option is only used for ppc32 systems with >32-bit physical addresses (44x, 85xx, 745x, etc.). Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Using 64k pages on 64-bit PowerPC systems makes life difficult for emulators that are trying to emulate an ISA, such as x86, which use a smaller page size, since the emulator can no longer use the MMU and the normal system calls for controlling page protections. Of course, the emulator can emulate the MMU by checking and possibly remapping the address for each memory access in software, but that is pretty slow. This provides a facility for such programs to control the access permissions on individual 4k sub-pages of 64k pages. The idea is that the emulator supplies an array of protection masks to apply to a specified range of virtual addresses. These masks are applied at the level where hardware PTEs are inserted into the hardware page table based on the Linux PTEs, so the Linux PTEs are not affected. Note that this new mechanism does not allow any access that would otherwise be prohibited; it can only prohibit accesses that would otherwise be allowed. This new facility is only available on 64-bit PowerPC and only when the kernel is configured for 64k pages. The masks are supplied using a new subpage_prot system call, which takes a starting virtual address and length, and a pointer to an array of protection masks in memory. The array has a 32-bit word per 64k page to be protected; each 32-bit word consists of 16 2-bit fields, for which 0 allows any access (that is otherwise allowed), 1 prevents write accesses, and 2 or 3 prevent any access. Implicit in this is that the regions of the address space that are protected are switched to use 4k hardware pages rather than 64k hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64k page support). In fact the whole process is switched to use 4k hardware pages when the subpage_prot system call is used, but this could be improved in future to switch only the affected segments. The subpage protection bits are stored in a 3 level tree akin to the page table tree. The top level of this tree is stored in a structure that is appended to the top level of the page table tree, i.e., the pgd array. Since it will often only be 32-bit addresses (below 4GB) that are protected, the pointers to the first four bottom level pages are also stored in this structure (each bottom level page contains the protection bits for 1GB of address space), so the protection bits for addresses below 4GB can be accessed with one fewer loads than those for higher addresses. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 17 1月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Jon Tollefson 提交于
This adds the hugepagesz boot-time parameter for ppc64. It lets one pick the size for huge pages. The choices available are 64K and 16M when the base page size is 4k. It defaults to 16M (previously the only only choice) if nothing or an invalid choice is specified. Tested 64K huge pages successfully with the libhugetlbfs 1.2. Signed-off-by: NJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
Fixes sparse warning: constant 0xffffffffffffff80 is so big it is unsigned long Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 15 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Commit 473980a9 added a call to clear the SLB shadow buffer before registering it. Unfortunately this means that we clear out the entries that slb_initialize has previously set in there. On POWER6, the hypervisor uses the SLB shadow buffer when doing partition switches, and that means that after the next partition switch, each non-boot CPU has no SLB entries to map the kernel text and data, which causes it to crash. This fixes it by reverting most of 473980a9 and instead clearing the 3rd entry explicitly in slb_initialize. This fixes the problem that 473980a9 was trying to solve, but without breaking POWER6. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 11 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Before we register the SLB shadow buffer, we need to invalidate the entries in the buffer, otherwise we can end up stale entries from when we previously offlined the CPU. This does this invalidate as well as unregistering the buffer with PHYP before we offline the cpu. Tested and fixes crashes seen on 970MP (thanks to tonyb) and POWER5. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 11 12月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Currently we hardwire the number of SLBs to 64, but PAPR says we should use the ibm,slb-size property to obtain the number of SLB entries. This uses this property instead of assuming 64. If no property is found, we assume 64 entries as before. This soft patches the SLB handler, so it shouldn't change performance at all. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> 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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- 03 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Ishizaki Kou 提交于
This changes the Celleb code to work with new Guest OS Interface to tweak HTAB on Beat. It detects old and new Guest OS Interfaces automatically. Signed-off-by: NKou Ishizaki <Kou.Ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp> Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> 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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- 25 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Sachin P. Sant 提交于
On Power machines supporting VRMA, Kexec/Kdump does not work. VRMA (virtual real-mode area) means that accesses with IR/DR = 0 (i.e. the MMU "off") actually still go through the hash table, using entries put there by the hypervisor. This means that when we clear out the hash table on kexec, we need to make sure these entries are left untouched. This also adds plpar_pte_read_raw() on the lines of plpar_pte_remove_raw(). Signed-off-by : Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by : Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 14 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Gibson 提交于
Using typedefs to rename structure types if frowned on by CodingStyle. However, we do so for the hash PTE structure on both ppc32 (where it's called "PTE") and ppc64 (where it's called "hpte_t"). On ppc32 we also have such a typedef for the BATs ("BAT"). This removes this unhelpful use of typedefs, in the process bringing ppc32 and ppc64 closer together, by using the name "struct hash_pte" in both cases. Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 10 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This adds the necessary support to hpte_decode() to handle 1TB segments and 16GB pages, and removes an uninitialized value warning on avpn. We don't have any code to generate HPTEs for 1TB segments or 16GB pages yet, so this is mostly for completeness, and to fix the warning. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
The basic issue is to be able to do what hugetlbfs does but with different page sizes for some other special filesystems; more specifically, my need is: - Huge pages - SPE local store mappings using 64K pages on a 4K base page size kernel on Cell - Some special 4K segments in 64K-page kernels for mapping a dodgy type of powerpc-specific infiniband hardware that requires 4K MMU mappings for various reasons I won't explain here. The main issues are: - To maintain/keep track of the page size per "segment" (as we can only have one page size per segment on powerpc, which are 256MB divisions of the address space). - To make sure special mappings stay within their allotted "segments" (including MAP_FIXED crap) - To make sure everybody else doesn't mmap/brk/grow_stack into a "segment" that is used for a special mapping Some of the necessary mechanisms to handle that were present in the hugetlbfs code, but mostly in ways not suitable for anything else. The patch relies on some changes to the generic get_unmapped_area() that just got merged. It still hijacks hugetlb callbacks here or there as the generic code hasn't been entirely cleaned up yet but that shouldn't be a problem. So what is a slice ? Well, I re-used the mechanism used formerly by our hugetlbfs implementation which divides the address space in "meta-segments" which I called "slices". The division is done using 256MB slices below 4G, and 1T slices above. Thus the address space is divided currently into 16 "low" slices and 16 "high" slices. (Special case: high slice 0 is the area between 4G and 1T). Doing so simplifies significantly the tracking of segments and avoids having to keep track of all the 256MB segments in the address space. While I used the "concepts" of hugetlbfs, I mostly re-implemented everything in a more generic way and "ported" hugetlbfs to it. Slices can have an associated page size, which is encoded in the mmu context and used by the SLB miss handler to set the segment sizes. The hash code currently doesn't care, it has a specific check for hugepages, though I might add a mechanism to provide per-slice hash mapping functions in the future. The slice code provide a pair of "generic" get_unmapped_area() (bottomup and topdown) functions that should work with any slice size. There is some trickiness here so I would appreciate people to have a look at the implementation of these and let me know if I got something wrong. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 27 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Gibson 提交于
Currently asm-powerpc/mmu.h has definitions for the 64-bit hash based MMU. If CONFIG_PPC64 is not set, it instead includes asm-ppc/mmu.h which contains a particularly horrible mess of #ifdefs giving the definitions for all the various 32-bit MMUs. It would be nice to have the low level definitions for each MMU type neatly in their own separate files. It would also be good to wean arch/powerpc off dependence on the old asm-ppc/mmu.h. This patch makes a start on such a cleanup by moving the definitions for the 64-bit hash MMU to their own file, asm-powerpc/mmu_hash64.h. Definitions for the other MMUs still all come from asm-ppc/mmu.h, however each MMU type can now be one-by-one moved over to their own file, in the process cleaning them up stripping them of cruft no longer necessary in arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
Until now, we have always entered the spu page fault handler with a mutex for the spu context held. This has multiple bad side-effects: - it becomes impossible to suspend the context during page faults - if an spu program attempts to access its own mmio areas through DMA, we get an immediate livelock when the nopage function tries to acquire the same mutex This patch makes the page fault logic operate on a struct spu_context instead of a struct spu, and moves it from spu_base.c to a new file fault.c inside of spufs. We now also need to copy the dar and dsisr contents of the last fault into the saved context to have it accessible in case we schedule out the context before activating the page fault handler. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
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- 07 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Ishizaki Kou 提交于
Adds htab routines for Celleb platform. Signed-off-by: NKou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 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 Geoff Levand 提交于
Change the powerpc hpte_insert routines now called through ppc_md to static scope. Signed-off-by: NGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 28 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
Initialise the ppc_md htab callbacks earlier, in the probe routines. This allows us to call htab_finish_init() from htab_initialize(), and makes it private to hash_utils_64.c. Move htab_finish_init() and make_bl() above htab_initialize() to avoid forward declarations. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 15 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but not for cache-inhibited pages. This patch lets us use 64k hardware pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y). User processes start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any non-cacheable mappings. With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for the imalloc region. If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages. I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this, though, and these machines don't have AGP. When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately. We use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages. If hash_page is trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE before inserting the 4k HPTE. The hash invalidation routines also use the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a set of 4k HPTEs to remove. With those two changes, we can tolerate a mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get removed when the address space is torn down. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 09 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Our MMU hash management code would not set the "C" bit (changed bit) in the hardware PTE when updating a RO PTE into a RW PTE. That would cause the hardware to possibly to a write back to the hash table to set it on the first store access, which in addition to being a performance issue, might also hit a bug when running with native hash management (non-HV) as our code is specifically optimized for the case where no write back happens. Thus there is a very small therocial window were a hash PTE can become corrupted if that HPTE has just been upgraded to read write, a store access happens on it, and that races with another processor evicting that same slot. Since eviction (caused by an almost full hash) is extremely rare, the bug is very unlikely to happen fortunately. This fixes by allowing the updating of the protection bits in the native hash handling to also set (but not clear) the "C" bit, and, in order to also improve performances in the general case, by always setting that bit on newly inserted hash PTE so that writeback really never happens. 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 patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is also applied. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 22 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
In mm_init_ppc64() we calculate the location of the "IO hole", but then no one ever looks at the value. So don't bother. That's actually all mm_init_ppc64() does, so get rid of it too. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
For kexec we need to know the size of the MMU hash table. Currently we calculate the size once in the htab code, and then twice more in the kexec code, once using htab_hash_mask and once using ppc64_pft_size. On some machines the ppc64_pft_size calculation is broken because ppc64_pft_size is not set. So we need to fix the second calculation, but better still we should just calculate the size once and use it everywhere else. Tested on Power5 LPAR, Power4 non-LPAR and Power3. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 09 1月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
include/asm-ppc/ had #ifdef __KERNEL__ in all header files that are not meant for use by user space, include/asm-powerpc does not have this yet. This patch gets us a lot closer there. There are a few cases where I was not sure, so I left them out. I have verified that no CONFIG_* symbols are used outside of __KERNEL__ any more and that there are no obvious compile errors when including any of the headers in user space libraries. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Michael Ellerman 提交于
There's a few places where we need to fix things up for the kernel to work if it's linked at 32MB: - platforms/powermac/smp.c To start secondary cpus on pmac we patch the reset vector, which is fine. Except if we're above 32MB we don't have enough bits for an absolute branch, it needs to relative. - kernel/head_64.s - A few branches in the cpu hold code need to load the full target address and do a bctr. - after_prom_start needs to load PHYSICAL_START as the dest address, not 0. - The exception prolog needs to load the low word of the target adddress, not just the low halfword. - Fixup handling of the initial stab address. - kernel/setup_64.c smp_release_cpus() needs to write 1 to the spinloop flag near 0, not 32 MB. Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Parsing addresses extracted from Open Firmware isn't a simple matter. We have various bits of code that try to do it in various place, including some heuristics in prom.c that pre-parse addresses at boot and fill device-nodes "addrs", but those are dodgy at best and I want to deprecate them. So this patch introduces a new set of routines that should be capable of parsing most types of addresses and translating them into CPU physical addresses. It currently works for things on PCI busses and ISA busses and should work on "standard" busses like the root bus or the MacIO bus that don't put funky flags in addresses. If you have other bus types that do use funky flags, you'll have to add new bus type translators, which is fairly easy. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 09 12月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 David Gibson 提交于
On most powerpc CPUs, the dcache and icache are not coherent so between writing and executing a page, the caches must be flushed. Userspace programs assume pages given to them by the kernel are icache clean, so we must do this flush between the kernel clearing a page and it being mapped into userspace for execute. We were not doing this for hugepages, this patch corrects the situation. We use the same lazy mechanism as we use for normal pages, delaying the flush until userspace actually attempts to execute from the page in question. Tested on G5. Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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