I had to debug a strange situation where all manner of things were
failing. SMT threads, storage and network were all completely broken.
The root cause was we couldn't find enough memory to instantiate RTAS -
this was a network install so the initrd was huge.
Instead of limping along and failing in mysterious ways we should just
panic up front if RTAS exists and we can't allocate space for it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The firmware on old 970 blades supports some kind of takeover called
"TNK takeover" which will crash if we try to probe for OPAL takeover,
so don't do it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
OPAL v2 is instantiated in a way similar to RTAS using Open Firmware
client interface calls, and the resulting address and entry point are
put in the device-tree
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We stash it in boot_command_line which isn't in BSS and so won't
be overwritten. We then use that as a default cmd_line before
we walk the device-tree.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On machines supporting the OPAL firmware version 1, the system
is initially booted under pHyp. We then use a special hypercall
to verify if OPAL is available and if it is, we then trigger
a "takeover" which disables pHyp and loads the OPAL runtime
firmware, giving control to the kernel in hypervisor mode.
This patch add the necessary code to detect that the OPAL takeover
capability is present when running under PowerVM (aka pHyp) and
perform said takeover to get hypervisor control of the processor.
To perform the takeover, we must first use RTAS (within Open
Firmware runtime environment) to start all processors & threads,
in order to give control to OPAL on all of them. We then call
the takeover hypercall on everybody, OPAL will re-enter the kernel
main entry point passing it a flat device-tree.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add a newline to the panic messages in make_room. Also fix a
comment that suggested our chunk size is 4Mb. It's 1MB.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I have a box that fails in OF during boot with:
DEFAULT CATCH!, exception-handler=fff00400
at %SRR0: 49424d2c4c6f6768 %SRR1: 800000004000b002
ie "IBM,Logh". OF got corrupted with a device tree string.
Looking at make_room and alloc_up, we claim the first chunk (1 MB)
but we never claim any more. mem_end is always set to alloc_top
which is the top of our available address space, guaranteeing we will
never call alloc_up and claim more memory.
Also alloc_up wasn't setting alloc_bottom to the bottom of the
available address space.
This doesn't help the box to boot, but we at least fail with
an obvious error. We could relocate the device tree in a future
patch.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently we look pretty stupid when printing out a bunch of things in
prom_init.c. eg.
Max number of cores passed to firmware: 0x0000000000000080
So I've change this to print in decimal:
Max number of cores passed to firmware: 128 (NR_CPUS = 256)
This required adding a prom_print_dec() function and changing some
prom_printk() calls from %x to %lu.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If we configure with CONFIG_SMP=n or set NR_CPUS less than the number of
SMT threads we will set the max cores property to 0 in the
ibm,client-architecture-support structure. On new versions of firmware that
understand this property it obliges and terminates our partition.
Use DIV_ROUND_UP so we handle not only the CONFIG_SMP=n case but also the
case where NR_CPUS isn't a multiple of the number of SMT threads.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Firmware changed the way it represents memory and cpu affinity on POWER7.
Unfortunately the old method now caps the topology to work around issues
with legacy operating systems. For Linux to get the correct topology we
need to use the new form 1 affinity information.
We set the form 1 field in the client architecture, and if we see "1" in the
ibm,associativity-form property firmware supports form 1 affinity and
we should look at the first field in the ibm,associativity-reference-points
array. If not we use the second field as we always have.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Updated variant of a patch by Joel Schopp.
The field containing the number of supported cores which we pass to
firmware via the ibm,client-architecture call was set by a previous
patch statically as high as is possible (NR_CPUS).
However, that value isn't quite right for a system that supports
multiple threads per core, thus permitting the firmware to assign
more cores to a Linux partition than it can really cope with.
This patch improves it by using the device-tree to determine the
number of threads supported by the processors in order to adjust
the value passed to firmware.
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds 2 fields to the ibm_architecture_vec array.
The first of these fields indicates the number of cores which Linux can
boot. It does not account for SMT, so it may result in cpus assigned to
Linux which cannot be booted. A second patch follows that dynamically
updates this for SMT.
The second field just indicates that our OS is Linux, and not another
OS. The system may or may not use this hint to performance tune
settings for Linux.
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On machines without the ibm,client-architecture-support call we were missing a
newline. We may as well print the full name in all its glory too - its
ibm,client-architecture-support, not ibm,client-architecture as I mistakenly
wrote (a name only an IBM architect could love).
For my penance I will write out ibm,client-architecture-support 100 times.
Before:
Calling ibm,client-architecture...command line: root=/dev/sda6 console=hvc0 quiet
After:
Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... not implemented
command line: root=/dev/sda6 console=hvc0
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Evaluate mem kernel parameter for early memory allocations. If mem is set
no allocation in the region above the given boundary is allowed. The current
code doesn't take care about this and allocate memory above the given mem
boundary.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Those definitions are currently declared extern in the .c file where
they are used, move them to a header file instead.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Now we have __initconst, we can finally move the external declarations for
the various Linux logo structures to <linux/linux_logo.h>.
James' ack dates back to the previous submission (way to long ago), when the
logos were still __initdata, which caused failures on some platforms with some
toolchain versions.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make all messages consistent, some have spaces before the "...", some do not.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The ibm,client-architecture method will often cause a reconfiguration reboot.
When this happens the last thing we see is:
Hypertas detected, assuming LPAR !
Which doesn't explain what just happened. Wrap the ibm,client-architecture
so it's clear what is going on:
Calling ibm,client-architecture... done
In order to maintain the law of conservation of screen real estate, downgrade
two other messages to debug.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Commit e7943fbbfd broke ppc32 using
Open Firmware client interface due to using the wrong relocation
macro when accessing the variable "linux_banner".
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
So at least you can see what kernel you're booting if you die
before the kernel prints it mid-way through start_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
tce_entryp is a "u64 *" not an "unsigned long *".
[Split from a large patch -sfr]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Brian King
Michael Neuling
jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Benjamin Krill
Harry Ciao
Geert Uytterhoeven
Michael Ellerman
Ingo Molnar