This adds a system call on 64-bit platforms for switching between
little-endian and big-endian modes that is much faster than doing a
prctl call. This system call is handled as a special case right at
the start of the system call entry code, and because it is a special
case, it uses a system call number which is out of the range of
normal system calls, namely 0x1ebe.
Measurements with lmbench on a 4.2GHz POWER6 showed no measurable
change in the speed of normal system calls with this patch.
Switching endianness with this new system call takes around 60ns on a
4.2GHz POWER6, compared with around 300ns to switch endian mode with a
prctl. This can provide a significant performance advantage for
emulators for little-endian architectures that want to switch between
big-endian and little-endian mode frequently, e.g. because they are
generating instructions sequences on the fly and they want to run
those sequences in little-endian mode.
The other thing about this system call is that it doesn't clobber as
many registers as a normal system call. It only clobbers r12.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running
unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only
tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace
support other SoC/board combinations should work.)
See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details.
[stephen: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The AMCC 460GT doesn't have an FPU so let's not enable support for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This splits cell io-workaround code into spider-pci dependent code and
a generic part, and also moves io-workarounds initialization into
cell_setup_phb.
Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The udbg console should be safe to call basically at any time after boot.
It does not need any per-cpu resources or for the cpu to be online, as
long as there is a udbg_putc routine hooked up it should work. So mark it
as CON_ANYTIME.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Because the udbg_console has CON_ENABLED set, it's possible that when we
register it with the console code the index won't be set. This leads to
slightly confusing boot messages like:
[ 0.000000] console [udbg-1] enabled
We could remove CON_ENABLED, but we don't want to do that, we always
want the udbg console to be activated, even if the user specified some
other console on the command line.
The simplest fix seems to be just to set the index to 0 by hand. There
is no issue with duplicate udbg consoles, as we guard against registering
multiple times in register_early_udbg_console().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This adds the required functionality to fill in all pacas at runtime.
With NR_CPUS=1024
text data bss dec hex filename
137 1704032 0 1704169 1a00e9 arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.o :Before
121 1179744 524288 1704153 1a00d9 arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.o :After
Also remove unneeded #includes from arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Removed get_msr(), get_srr0(), and get_srr1() - not used anywhere
* Use STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD instead of magic number
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
As BenH said the other day, it is an "accident" that prom_init.o is
linked with the rest of the kernel. The truth is a little more
subtle, prom_init isn't truly bootloader, it does access kernel data
in a few places.
What we can do is discourage people from adding new code that accesses
data outside of prom_init. And hence this patch; from the script:
# This script checks prom_init.o to see what external symbols it
# is using, if it finds symbols not in the whitelist it returns
# an error. The point of this is to discourage people from
# intentionally or accidentally adding new code to prom_init.c
# which has side effects on other parts of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Removed TI_EXECDOMAIN define as its not used anywhere
* Use STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE to allow common define of INT_FRAME_SIZE
* Define TI_CPU on both ppc32 & ppc64 (removes an ifdef).
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Use (31-THREAD_SHIFT) to get to thread_info from stack pointer. This makes
the code a bit easier to read and more robust if we ever change THREAD_SHIFT.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Remove the inclusion of asm-offsets.h from stacktrace.c. It isn't
supposed to be included in C code and it causes problems with multiple
definitions of things.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Added support to allow an 85xx kernel to be run from a non-zero physical
address (useful for cooperative asymmetric multiprocessing situations and
kdump). The support can be configured at compile time by setting
CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, CONFIG_KERNEL_START, and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START as
desired.
Alternatively, the kernel build can set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. Setting this
config option causes the kernel to determine at runtime the physical
addresses of CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET and CONFIG_KERNEL_START. If
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, then CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START has no meaning.
However, CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START will always be used to set the LOAD program
header physical address field in the resulting ELF image.
Currently we are limited to running at a physical address that is a
multiple of 256M. This is due to how we map TLBs to cover
lowmem. This should be fixed to allow 64M or maybe even 16M alignment
in the future. It is considered an error to try and run a kernel at a
non-aligned physical address.
All the magic for this support is accomplished by proper initialization
of the kernel memory subsystem and use of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET.
The use of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET only affects normal memory and not IO mappings.
ioremap uses map_page and isn't affected by ARCH_PFN_OFFSET.
/dev/mem continues to allow access to any physical address in the system
regardless of how CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is set.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The powerpc kernel stacks need to be naturally aligned, as they
contain the thread info at the bottom, which is obtained by
clearing the low bits of the stack pointer.
However, when using 64K pages, the stack is smaller than a page,
so we use kmalloc to allocate it, but that doesn't provide the
alignment guarantee we need.
It appeared to work so far... until one enables SLUB debugging
which then returns unaligned pointers. Ooops...
This fixes it by using a slab cache with enforced alignment. It
relies on my previous patch that adds a thread_info_cache_init()
callback.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This reverts commit e4cc58944c, as
requested by Roland McGrath, because compat_ptrace_request (added in
commit e16b278164, "ptrace:
compat_ptrace_request siginfo") now handles this case.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits)
[POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs
[POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32
[POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
[POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
[POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors
[POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc
[POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep
[POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header
[POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts
[POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const
[POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable
[POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup
[POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ()
[POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
[POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c
[POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h
[POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup
[POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier.
[POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups
...
603 CPUs have the same issue that some 750 CPUs have in that they can crash
in funny ways if a store from an FPU register instruction is executed on a
register that has never been initialized since power on. This patch fixes
it by making sure all FP registers have been properly initialized at kernel
boot.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Use the generic pci_enable_resources() instead of the arch-specific code.
The generic version is functionally equivalent, but uses dev_printk.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Define the copy_siginfo_from_user32 entry point for powerpc, so
that generic CONFIG_COMPAT code can call it. We already had the
code rolled into compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo, this just moves it
out into the canonical function that other arch's define.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Current versions of gdb require a working implementation of
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO for proper watchpoint support. Since struct siginfo
contains pointers it must be converted when passed to a 32-bit debugger.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h. It's possible that they rely on it dragging in some
unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have
fix any build failures as they come up.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
This adds the low level irq tracing hooks to the powerpc architecture
needed to enable full lockdep functionality.
This is partly based on Johannes Berg's initial version. I removed
the asm trampoline that isn't needed (thus improving performance) and
modified all sorts of bits and pieces, reworking most of the assembly,
etc...
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
