The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a
pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware
will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is
needed.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The code in prom_init.c calling the firmware
ibm,client-architecture-support method on pSeries has a bug where it
fails to properly pass the instance handle of the firmware object when
trying to call a method. Result ranges from the call doing nothing to
the firmware crashing. (Found by Segher, thanks !)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible
for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels. This
also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems
by inspection.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Due to a firmware device tree bug, RTC and NVRAM accesses (including
halt/reboot) on Maple have been broken since January, when an untested
build fix went in. This code patches the device tree in Linux.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The OF trampoline code prom_init.c still needs to identify IBM pSeries
(PAPR) machines in order to run some platform specific code on them like
instanciating the TCE tables. The code doing that detection was changed
recently in 2.6.17 early stages but was done slightly incorrectly. It
should be testing for an exact match of "chrp" and it currently tests
for anything that begins with "chrp". That means it will incorrectly
match with platforms using Maple-like device-trees and have open
firmware. This fixes it by using strcmp instead of strncmp to match what
the actual platform detection code does.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Forthcoming IBM machines will have a "ibm,pa-features" property on CPU
nodes, that contains bits indicating which optional architecture
features are implemented by the CPU. This adds code to use the
property, if present, to update our CPU feature bitmaps. Note that
this means we can both set and clear feature bits based on what
the firmware tells us.
This is based on a patch by Will Schmidt <willschm@us.ibm.com>.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We currently single-step inline if the instruction on which a kprobe is
inserted is a trap variant.
- variants (such as tdnei, used by BUG()) typically evaluate a condition
and cause a trap only if the condition is satisfied.
- kprobes uses the unconditional "trap" (0x7fe00008) and single-stepping
again on this instruction, resulting in another trap without
evaluating the condition is obviously incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] Audit Filter Performance
[PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing
[PATCH] More user space subject labels
[PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages
[PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing
[PATCH] audit inode patch
[PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2
[PATCH] support for context based audit filtering
[PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit()
[PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit}
[PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit()
[PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit()
[PATCH] sockaddr patch
[PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()
Change of_node_to_nid() to traverse the device tree, looking for a numa id.
Cell uses this to assign ids to SPUs, which are children of the CPU node.
Existing users of of_node_to_nid() are altered to use of_node_to_nid_single(),
which doesn't do the traversal.
Export an attach_sysdev_to_node() function, allowing system devices (eg.
SPUs) to link themselves into the numa topology in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a cputable entry for the POWER6 processor.
The SIHV and SIPR bits in the mmcra have moved in POWER6, so disable
support for that until oprofile is fixed.
Also tell firmware that we know about POWER6.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Wire up *at syscalls.
This patch has been tested on ppc64 (using glibc's testsuite, both 32bit
and 64bit), and compile-tested for ppc32 (I have currently no ppc32 system
available, but I expect no problems).
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Some people report that we die on some Macs when we are expecting to
catch machine checks after poking at some random I/O address. I'd seen
it happen on my dual G4 with serial ports until we fixed those to use
OF, but now other users are reporting it with i8042.
This expands the use of check_legacy_ioport() to avoid that situation
even on 32-bit kernels.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Normally, ppc64 module .ko files contain a table-of-contents (.toc)
section, but if the module doesn't reference any static or external
data or external procedures, it is possible for gcc/binutils to
generate a .ko that doesn't have a .toc. Currently the module
loader refuses to load such a module, since it needs the address
of the .toc section to use in relocations.
This patch fixes the problem by using the address of the .stubs
section instead, which is an acceptable substitute in this situation.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This adds code to call a new firmware method to tell the firmware
what machines and capabilities (such as VMX/Altivec) we support.
This will be needed on POWER5+ and POWER6 machines, and it has no
effect on past and current machines.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition
of notifier_call. It is incorrect as the function definition should be
available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during
initializations).
This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init
section.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __devinitdata in the
definition of notifier_block data structure. It is incorrect as the
data structure should be available after the initializations (they do
not unregister them during initializations).
This was leading to an oops when notifier_chain_register() call is
invoked for those callback chains after initialization.
This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_block data
structure in the init data section.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sys_splice() moves data to/from pipes with a file input/output. sys_vmsplice()
moves data to a pipe, with the input being a user address range instead.
This uses an approach suggested by Linus, where we can hold partial ranges
inside the pages[] map. Hopefully this will be useful for network
receive support as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Every time a new syscall gets added, a BUILD_BUG_ON in
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c gets triggered.
Since the addition of a new syscall is rather harmless,
the error should just be removed.
While we're here, add sys_tee to the list and add a comment
to systbl.S to remind people that there is another list
on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Turn on the DART already at 1GB. This is needed because of crippled
devices in some systems, i.e. Airport Extreme cards, only supporting
30-bit DMA addresses.
Otherwise, users with between 1 and 2GB of memory will need to manually
enable it with iommu=force, and that's no good.
Some simple performance tests show that there's a slight impact of
enabling DART, but it's in the 1-3% range (kernel build with disk I/O
as well as over NFS).
iommu=off can still be used for those who don't want to deal with the
overhead (and don't need it for any devices).
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Some devices don't support full 32-bit DMA address space, which we currently
assume. Add the required mask-passing to the IOMMU allocators.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Andrew Morton pointed out that compiler might not inline the functions
marked for inline in kprobes. There-by allowing the insertion of probes
on these kprobes routines, which might cause recursion.
This patch removes all such inline and adds them to kprobes section
there by disallowing probes on all such routines. Some of the routines
can even still be inlined, since these routines gets executed after the
kprobes had done necessay setup for reentrancy.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
powerpc: Use correct sequence for putting CPU into nap mode
[PATCH] spufs: fix context-switch decrementer code
[PATCH] powerpc32: Set cpu explicitly in kernel compiles
[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: bugfix: balance calls to pci_device_put
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix machine detection in prom_init.c
[PATCH] ppc32: Fix string comparing in platform_notify_map
[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid __initcall warnings
[PATCH] powerpc: Ensure runlatch is off in the idle loop
powerpc: Fix CHRP booting - needs a define_machine call
powerpc: iSeries has only 256 IRQs
