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  1. Jan 09, 2006
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc: Update __NR_syscalls to account for SPU syscalls · d6a55504
      Paul Mackerras authored
      
      
      A previous patch ended up not increasing __NR_syscalls to account
      for the new SPU syscalls (probably my fault).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      d6a55504
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      [PATCH] spufs: cooperative scheduler support · 8b3d6663
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      
      This adds a scheduler for SPUs to make it possible to use
      more logical SPUs than physical ones are present in the
      system.
      
      Currently, there is no support for preempting a running
      SPU thread, they have to leave the SPU by either triggering
      an event on the SPU that causes it to return to the
      owning thread or by sending a signal to it.
      
      This patch also adds operations that enable accessing an SPU
      in either runnable or saved state. We use an RW semaphore
      to protect the state of the SPU from changing underneath
      us, while we are holding it readable. In order to change
      the state, it is acquired writeable and a context save
      or restore is executed before downgrading the semaphore
      to read-only.
      
      From: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com>,
            Uli Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      8b3d6663
    • Mark Nutter's avatar
      [PATCH] kernel-side context switch code for spufs · 7c038749
      Mark Nutter authored
      
      
      This adds the code needed to perform a context switch from
      spufs, following the recommended 76-step sequence.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      7c038749
    • Mark Nutter's avatar
      [PATCH] spufs: switchable spu contexts · 5473af04
      Mark Nutter authored
      
      
      Add some infrastructure for saving and restoring the context of an
      SPE. This patch creates a new structure that can hold the whole
      state of a physical SPE in memory. It also contains code that
      avoids races during the context switch and the binary code that
      is loaded to the SPU in order to access its registers.
      
      The actual PPE- and SPE-side context switch code are two separate
      patches.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      5473af04
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, base · 67207b96
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      This is the current version of the spu file system, used
      for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine.
      
      This release is almost identical to the version for the
      2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part
      of the Cell BE Linux distribution from
      http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/
      
      .
      
      The first patch provides all the interfaces for running
      spu application, but does not have any support for
      debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these
      functionalities are added in the subsequent patches.
      
      See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use
      spufs.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      67207b96
    • Heiko J Schick's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: IBMEBUS bus support · d7a30103
      Heiko J Schick authored
      
      
      This patch adds the necessary core bus support used by device drivers
      that sit on the IBM GX bus on modern pSeries machines like the Galaxy
      infiniband for example. It provide transparent DMA ops (the low level
      driver works with virtual addresses directly) along with a simple bus
      layer using the Open Firmware matching routines.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko J Schick <schickhj@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      d7a30103
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      [PATCH] syscall entry/exit revamp · 401d1f02
      David Woodhouse authored
      
      
      This cleanup patch speeds up the null syscall path on ppc64 by about 3%,
      and brings the ppc32 and ppc64 code slightly closer together.
      
      The ppc64 code was checking current_thread_info()->flags twice in the
      syscall exit path; once for TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A before disabling
      interrupts, and then again for TIF_SIGPENDING|TIF_NEED_RESCHED etc after
      disabling interrupts. Now we do the same as ppc32 -- check the flags
      only once in the fast path, and re-enable interrupts if necessary in the
      ptrace case.
      
      The patch abolishes the 'syscall_noerror' member of struct thread_info
      and replaces it with a TIF_NOERROR bit in the flags, which is handled in
      the slow path. This shortens the syscall entry code, which no longer
      needs to clear syscall_noerror.
      
      The patch adds a TIF_SAVE_NVGPRS flag which causes the syscall exit slow
      path to save the non-volatile GPRs into a signal frame. This removes the
      need for the assembly wrappers around sys_sigsuspend(),
      sys_rt_sigsuspend(), et al which existed solely to save those registers
      in advance. It also means I don't have to add new wrappers for ppoll()
      and pselect(), which is what I was supposed to be doing when I got
      distracted into this...
      
      Finally, it unifies the ppc64 and ppc32 methods of handling syscall exit
      directly into a signal handler (as required by sigsuspend et al) by
      introducing a TIF_RESTOREALL flag which causes _all_ the registers to be
      reloaded from the pt_regs by taking the ret_from_exception path, instead
      of the normal syscall exit path which stomps on the callee-saved GPRs.
      
      It appears to pass an LTP test run on ppc64, and passes basic testing on
      ppc32 too. Brief tests of ptrace functionality with strace and gdb also
      appear OK. I wouldn't send it to Linus for 2.6.15 just yet though :)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      401d1f02
    • Kumar Gala's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: moved ipic code to arch/powerpc · 1cd8e506
      Kumar Gala authored
      
      
      Moved 83xx and QUICC Engine interrupt handling code into arch/powerpc
      as a precursor of getting 83xx sub-arch building in arch/powerpc.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      1cd8e506
    • Michael Ellerman's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge kexec · 3d1229d6
      Michael Ellerman authored
      
      
      This patch merges, to some extent, the PPC32 and PPC64 kexec implementations.
      
      We adopt the PPC32 approach of having ppc_md callbacks for the kexec functions.
      The current PPC64 implementation becomes the "default" implementation for PPC64
      which platforms can select if they need no special treatment.
      
      I've added these default callbacks to pseries/maple/cell/powermac, this means
      iSeries no longer supports kexec - but it never worked anyway.
      
      I've renamed PPC32's machine_kexec_simple to default_machine_kexec, inline with
      PPC64. Judging by the comments it might be better named machine_kexec_non_of,
      or something, but at the moment it's the only implementation for PPC32 so it's
      the "default".
      
      Kexec requires machine_shutdown(), which is in machine_kexec.c on PPC32, but we
      already have in setup-common.c on powerpc. All this does is call
      ppc_md.nvram_sync, which only powermac implements, so instead make
      machine_shutdown a ppc_md member and have it call core99_nvram_sync directly
      on powermac.
      
      I've also stuck relocate_kernel.S into misc_32.S for powerpc.
      
      Built for ARCH=ppc, and 32 & 64 bit ARCH=powerpc, with KEXEC=y/n. Booted on
      P5 LPAR and successfully kexec'ed.
      
      Should apply on top of 493f25ef.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      3d1229d6
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      [PATCH] PPC_PREP: remove unneeded exports · afcc2472
      Adrian Bunk authored
      
      
      This patch removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but completely unused variable
      ucSystemType and removes the unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL(_prep_type).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      afcc2472
  2. Jan 06, 2006
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 · d3cb4871
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      
      Several counters already have the need to use 64 atomic variables on 64 bit
      platforms (see mm_counter_t in sched.h).  We have to do ugly ifdefs to fall
      back to 32 bit atomic on 32 bit platforms.
      
      The VM statistics patch that I am working on will also make more extensive
      use of atomic64.
      
      This patch introduces a new type atomic_long_t by providing definitions in
      asm-generic/atomic.h that works similar to the c "long" type.  Its 32 bits
      on 32 bit platforms and 64 bits on 64 bit platforms.
      
      Also cleans up the determination of the mm_counter_t in sched.h.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d3cb4871
    • Badari Pulavarty's avatar
      [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store · f6b3ec23
      Badari Pulavarty authored
      
      
      Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a
      given range of pages & its associated backing store.  Current
      implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return
      -ENOSYS.
      
      "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some
      client disconnect, some memory can be released.  However the only way to
      release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli
      
      Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool
      (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space.
      
      This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML.
      
      Concerns raised by Andrew Morton:
      
      - "We have no plan for holepunching!  If we _do_ have such a plan (or
        might in the future) then what would the API look like?  I think
        sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that."
      
      - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to
        mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?"
      
      - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this
        manner.  A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a
        filesytem operation?  truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation
        which sometimes has MM side-effects.  madvise is an mm operation and with
        this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really
        significant ones."
      
      Comments:
      
      - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to
        have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't
        immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range.  It's possible to
        fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive,
        the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them.
      
      Short term plan &  Future Direction:
      
      - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short
        term.  We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and
        completeness.  This is what this patch does.
      
      - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also.  This
        also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented.
      
      - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in
        the future.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f6b3ec23
  3. Jan 03, 2006
  4. Dec 09, 2005
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Add missing icache flushes for hugepages · cbf52afd
      David Gibson authored
      
      
      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: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      cbf52afd
  5. Nov 25, 2005
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: More hugepage boundary case fixes · 9a94c579
      David Gibson authored
      
      
      Blah.  The patch [0] I recently sent fixing errors with
      in_hugepage_area() and prepare_hugepage_range() for powerpc itself has
      an off-by-one bug.  Furthermore, the related functions
      touches_hugepage_*_range() and within_hugepage_*_range() are also
      buggy.  Some of the bugs, like those addressed in [0] originated with
      commit 7d24f0b8 where we tweaked the
      semantics of where hugepages are allowed.  Other bugs have been there
      essentially forever, and are due to the undefined behaviour of '<<'
      with shift counts greater than the type width (LOW_ESID_MASK could
      return non-zero for high ranges with the right congruences).
      
      The good news is that I now have a testsuite which should pick up
      things like this if they creep in again.
      
      [0] "powerpc-fix-for-hugepage-areas-straddling-4gb-boundary"
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      9a94c579
  6. Nov 24, 2005
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: fix for hugepage areas straddling 4GB boundary · 5e391dc9
      David Gibson authored
      
      
      Commit 7d24f0b8 fixed bugs in the ppc64 SLB
      miss handler with respect to hugepage handling, and in the process tweaked
      the semantics of the hugepage address masks in mm_context_t.
      
      Unfortunately, it left out a couple of necessary changes to go with that
      change.  First, the in_hugepage_area() macro was not updated to match,
      second prepare_hugepage_range() was not updated to correctly handle
      hugepages regions which straddled the 4GB point.
      
      The latter appears only to cause process-hangs when attempting to map such
      a region, but the former can cause oopses if a get_user_pages() is
      triggered at the wrong point.  This patch addresses both bugs.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5e391dc9
  7. Nov 23, 2005
  8. Nov 19, 2005
  9. Nov 18, 2005
  10. Nov 17, 2005
  11. Nov 16, 2005
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Make the vDSO functions set error code (#2) · 5d66da3d
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      
      
      The vDSO functions should have the same calling convention as a syscall.
      Unfortunately, they currently don't set the cr0.so bit which is used to
      indicate an error. This patch makes them clear this bit unconditionally
      since all functions currently succeed. The syscall fallback done by some
      of them will eventually override this if the syscall fails.
      
      This also changes the symbol version of all vdso exports to make sure
      glibc can differenciate between old and fixed calls for existing ones
      like __kernel_gettimeofday.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      5d66da3d
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: pci_64 fixes & cleanups · b5166cc2
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      
      
      I discovered that in some cases (PowerMac for example) we wouldn't
      properly map the PCI IO space on recent kernels. In addition, the code
      for initializing PCI host bridges was scattered all over the place with
      some duplication between platforms.
      
      This patch fixes the problem and does a small cleanup by creating a
      pcibios_alloc_controller() in pci_64.c that is similar to the one in
      pci_32.c (just takes an additional device node argument) that takes care
      of all the grunt allocation and initialisation work. It should work for
      both boot time and dynamically allocated PHBs.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      b5166cc2
  12. Nov 15, 2005
  13. Nov 14, 2005
  14. Nov 11, 2005
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel · a7f290da
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      
      
      This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32
      bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds
      some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with
      support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same
      clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency.
      
      Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits
      returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever
      add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't
      have to change.
      
      I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and
      ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a
      64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was
      tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a7f290da
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Move udbg code to arch/powerpc · 35cd8785
      David Gibson authored
      
      
      Since the udbg code in ppc64 has no ppc32 equivalent, move it straight
      over into arch/powerpc (and include/asm-powerpc for udbg.h).  In time,
      we probably want to meld the various bits and pieces of 32-bit early
      debugging code into udbg, but for now only include it on
      CONFIG_PPC64=y builds.  The only change during the move is to
      standardise the protecting #ifdef/#define in udbg.h, and move its
      banner comment above the initial #ifdef (which seems to be normal
      practice).
      
      Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).  Built
      for 32bit multiplatform (ARCH=powerpc).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      35cd8785
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