For bootloaders that support booting only ELF kernels and load only ELF
segments to memory there is no easy way to supply DTB without kernel
recompilation. For that purpose, create a section called .appended_dtb
that can be later updated with board-specific DTB using binutils e.g. at
kernel installation time.
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11114/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add user-mode implementations of gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() to
the VDSO. This is currently usable with 2 clocksources: the CP0 count
register, which is accessible to user-mode via RDHWR on R2 and later
cores, or the MIPS Global Interrupt Controller (GIC) timer, which
provides a "user-mode visible" section containing a mirror of its
counter registers. This section must be mapped into user memory, which
is done below the VDSO data page.
When a supported clocksource is not in use, the VDSO functions will
return -ENOSYS, which causes libc to fall back on the standard syscall
path.
When support for neither of these clocksources is compiled into the
kernel at all, the VDSO still provides clock_gettime(), as the coarse
realtime/monotonic clocks can still be implemented. However,
gettimeofday() is not provided in this case as nothing can be done
without a suitable clocksource. This causes the symbol lookup to fail
in libc and it will then always use the standard syscall path.
This patch includes a workaround for a bug in QEMU which results in
RDHWR on the CP0 count register always returning a constant (incorrect)
value. A fix for this has been submitted, and the workaround can be
removed after the fix has been in stable releases for a reasonable
amount of time.
A simple performance test which calls gettimeofday() 1000 times in a
loop and calculates the average execution time gives the following
results on a Malta + I6400 (running at 20MHz):
- Syscall: ~31000 ns
- VDSO (GIC): ~15000 ns
- VDSO (CP0): ~9500 ns
[markos.chandras@imgtec.com:
- Minor code re-arrangements in order for mappings to be made
in the order they appear to the process' address space.
- Move do_{monotonic, realtime} outside of the MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL ifdef
- Use gic_get_usm_range so we can do the GIC mapping in the
arch/mips/kernel/vdso instead of the GIC irqchip driver]
Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11338/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A boundary exists beyond which the timer frequency becomes high enough
that timer interrupts saturate the system and either cause it to slow to
a crawl or stop functioning entirely. Where that boundary lies depends
upon a number of factors such as the overhead of each interrupt and the
overall speed of the CPU, but correlates strongly with the clock
frequency at which the CPU runs. When running on emulators during
bringup or debug of a CPU that clock frequency is very low, which
results in the boundary at which the timer frequency becomes
unsustainable being very low. The current minimum of 48Hz pushes against
boundary in certain situations in current systems. Allow the kernel to
be configured for a 24Hz timer frequency in order to avoid problems on
such slow running systems.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11184/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will use __builtin_bswap16(), __builtin_bswap32()
and __builtin_bswap64() where available. This allows better instruction
scheduling. On pre-R2 processors it will result in 32 bit and 64 bit
swapping being performed in a call to a __bswapsi2() rsp. __bswapdi2()
functions, so we add these, too.
For a 4.2 kernel with GCC 4.9 this yields the following kernel sizes:
text data bss dec hex filename
3996071 155804 88992 4240867 40b5e3 vmlinux ip22 baseline
3985687 159900 88992 4234579 409d53 vmlinux ip22 + bswap patch
6913157 378552 251024 7542733 7317cd vmlinux ip27 baseline
6878581 378552 251024 7508157 7290bd vmlinux ip27 + bswap patch
5773777 268752 187424 6229953 5f0fc1 vmlinux malta baseline
5773401 268752 187424 6229577 5f0e49 vmlinux malta + bswap patch
Presumably the code size improvments yield better cache hit rate thus
better performance compensating for the extra function call but this
will still need to be benchmarked.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.
And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.
The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.
Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.
Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
"This is the main pull request for 4.3 for MIPS. Here's the summary:
Three fixes that didn't make 4.2-stable:
- a -Os build might compile the kernel using the MIPS16 instruction
set but the R2 optimized inline functions in <uapi/asm/swab.h> are
implemented using 32-bit wide instructions which is invalid.
- a build error in pgtable-bits.h for a particular kernel
configuration.
- accessing registers of the CM GCR might have been compiled to use
64 bit accesses but these registers are onl 32 bit wide.
And also a few new bits:
- move the ATH79 GPIO driver to drivers/gpio
- the definition of IRQCHIP_DECLARE has moved to linux/irqchip.h,
change ATH79 accordingly.
- fix definition of pgprot_writecombine
- add an implementation of dma_map_ops.mmap
- fix alignment of quiet build output for vmlinuz link
- BCM47xx: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
- Netlogic: Fix 0x0x prefixes of constants.
- merge Bjorn Helgaas' series to remove most of the weak keywords
from function declarations.
- CP0 and CP1 registers are best considered treated as unsigned
values to avoid large values from becoming negative values.
- improve support for the MIPS GIC timer.
- enable common clock framework for Malta and SEAD3.
- a number of improvments and fixes to dump_tlb().
- document the MIPS TLB dump functionality in Magic SysRq.
- Cavium Octeon CN68XX improvments.
- NetLogic improvments.
- irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask.
- handle MSA unaligned accesses.
- a number of R6-related math-emu fixes.
- support for I6400.
- improvments to MSA support.
- add uprobes support.
- move from deprecated __initcall to arch_initcall.
- remove finish_arch_switch().
- IRQ cleanups by Thomas Gleixner.
- migrate to new 'set-state' interface.
- random small cleanups"
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (148 commits)
MIPS: UAPI: Fix unrecognized opcode WSBH/DSBH/DSHD when using MIPS16.
MIPS: Fix alignment of quiet build output for vmlinuz link
MIPS: math-emu: Remove unused handle_dsemul function declaration
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 MAX{, A} FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 MIN{, A} FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 CLASS FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 RINT FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 MSUBF FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 MADDF FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 SELNEZ FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the MIPS R6 SELEQZ FPU instruction
MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the CMP.condn.fmt R6 instruction
MIPS: inst.h: Add new MIPS R6 FPU opcodes
MIPS: Octeon: Fix management port MII address on Kontron S1901
MIPS: BCM47xx: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
STAGING: Octeon: Use common helpers for determining interface and port
MIPS: Octeon: Support interfaces 4 and 5
MIPS: Octeon: Set up 1:1 mapping between CN68XX PKO queues and ports
MIPS: Octeon: Initialize CN68XX PKO
STAGING: Octeon: Support CN68XX style WQE
...
Now that we're ready to enable COMMON_CLK for GIC platforms do so for
Malta and SEAD3. The only other user of the GIC Pistachio does already
do so.
[ralf@linux-mips.org: Rewrite the commit message because applied in the
right order there is no breakage thus no fix required.]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11038/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
On MIPS64 we have spinlocks that are 32b in size and an efficient
cmpxchg64 implementation, so we qualify to make use of cmpxchg backed
lockrefs. Select the ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF Kconfig symbol and provide
a trivial implementation of arch_spin_value_unlocked to satisfy the
lockref code.
Using Linus' simple testcase from
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/77466 on a dual core
system with an in-development MIPS64 CPU running on FPGA I see around an
8% gain:
Pre-patch:
Total loops: 252698
Total loops: 251482
Total loops: 250806
Total loops: 252885
Total loops: 251666
Post-patch:
Total loops: 273728
Total loops: 269932
Total loops: 269341
Total loops: 275004
Total loops: 270208
[ralf@linux-mips.org: Fixed conflict.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10810/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This updated pull request does not contain the last few GIC related
patches which were reported to cause a regression. There is a fix
available, but I let it breed for a couple of days first.
The irq departement provides:
- new infrastructure to support non PCI based MSI interrupts
- a couple of new irq chip drivers
- the usual pile of fixlets and updates to irq chip drivers
- preparatory changes for removal of the irq argument from interrupt
flow handlers
- preparatory changes to remove IRQF_VALID"
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
irqchip/imx-gpcv2: IMX GPCv2 driver for wakeup sources
irqchip: Add bcm2836 interrupt controller for Raspberry Pi 2
irqchip: Add documentation for the bcm2836 interrupt controller
irqchip/bcm2835: Add support for being used as a second level controller
irqchip/bcm2835: Refactor handle_IRQ() calls out of MAKE_HWIRQ
PCI: xilinx: Fix typo in function name
irqchip/gic: Ensure gic_cpu_if_up/down() programs correct GIC instance
irqchip/gic: Only allow the primary GIC to set the CPU map
PCI/MSI: pci-xgene-msi: Consolidate chained IRQ handler install/remove
unicore32/irq: Prepare puv3_gpio_handler for irq argument removal
tile/pci_gx: Prepare trio_handle_level_irq for irq argument removal
m68k/irq: Prepare irq handlers for irq argument removal
C6X/megamode-pic: Prepare megamod_irq_cascade for irq argument removal
blackfin: Prepare irq handlers for irq argument removal
arc/irq: Prepare idu_cascade_isr for irq argument removal
sparc/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
sparc/irq: Use helper irq_data_get_irq_handler_data()
parisc/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
mn10300/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
irqchip/i8259: Prepare i8259_irq_dispatch for irq argument removal
...
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Olof Johansson:
"Some releases this branch is nearly empty, others we have more stuff.
It tends to gather drivers that need SoC modification or dependencies
such that they have to (also) go in through our tree.
For this release, we have merged in part of the reset controller tree
(with handshake that the parts we have merged in will remain stable),
as well as dependencies on a few clock branches.
In general, new items here are:
- Qualcomm driver for SMM/SMD, which is how they communicate with the
coprocessors on (some) of their platforms
- memory controller work for ARM's PL172 memory controller
- reset drivers for various platforms
- PMU power domain support for Marvell platforms
- Tegra support for T132/T210 SoCs: PMC, fuse, memory controller
per-SoC support"
* tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (49 commits)
ARM: tegra: cpuidle: implement cpuidle_state.enter_freeze()
ARM: tegra: Disable cpuidle if PSCI is available
soc/tegra: pmc: Use existing pclk reference
soc/tegra: pmc: Remove unnecessary return statement
soc: tegra: Remove redundant $(CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA) in Makefile
memory: tegra: Add Tegra210 support
memory: tegra: Add support for a variable-size client ID bitfield
clk: shmobile: rz: Add CPG/MSTP Clock Domain support
clk: shmobile: rcar-gen2: Add CPG/MSTP Clock Domain support
clk: shmobile: r8a7779: Add CPG/MSTP Clock Domain support
clk: shmobile: r8a7778: Add CPG/MSTP Clock Domain support
clk: shmobile: Add CPG/MSTP Clock Domain support
ARM: dove: create a proper PMU driver for power domains, PMU IRQs and resets
reset: reset-zynq: Adding support for Xilinx Zynq reset controller.
docs: dts: Added documentation for Xilinx Zynq Reset Controller bindings.
MIPS: ath79: Add the reset controller to the AR9132 dtsi
reset: Add a driver for the reset controller on the AR71XX/AR9XXX
devicetree: Add bindings for the ATH79 reset controller
reset: socfpga: Update reset-socfpga to read the altr,modrst-offset property
doc: dt: add documentation for lpc1850-rgu reset driver
...
Aaro Koskinen
Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel
Jonas Gorski
Alex Smith
Paul Burton
Ralf Baechle
Dave Young
Linus Torvalds
Ezequiel Garcia
Guenter Roeck
Kamlakant Patel
Alban Bedel
Markos Chandras