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    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      powerpc: cpumask_of_node() should handle -1 as a node · c81b812a
      Anton Blanchard authored 
      

pcibus_to_node can return -1 if we cannot determine which node a pci bus
is on. If passed -1, cpumask_of_node will negatively index the lookup array
and pull in random data:

# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpus
00000000,00000003,00000000,00000000
# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpulist
64-65

Change cpumask_of_node to check for -1 and return cpu_all_mask in this
case:

# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpus
ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff
# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpulist
0-127

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      c81b812a
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    • Roman Fietze's avatar
      powerpc: Make "intspec" pointers in irq_host->xlate() const · 40d50cf7
      Roman Fietze authored 
      

Writing a driver using SCLPC on the MPC5200B I detected, that the
intspec arrays to map irqs to Linux virq cannot be const, because the
mapping and xlate functions only take non const pointers. All those
functions do not modify the intspec, so a const pointer could be used.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      40d50cf7
    • Joakim Tjernlund's avatar
      powerpc/8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU · 0c466169
      Joakim Tjernlund authored 
      

8xx has not had WRITETHRU due to lack of bits in the pte.
After the recent rewrite of the 8xx TLB code, there are
two bits left. Use one of them to WRITETHRU.

Perhaps use the last SW bit to PAGE_SPECIAL or PAGE_FILE?

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      0c466169
    • Joakim Tjernlund's avatar
      powerpc/8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects. · fe11dc3f
      Joakim Tjernlund authored 
      

Update the TLB asm to make proper use of _PAGE_DIRY and _PAGE_ACCESSED.
Get rid of _PAGE_HWWRITE too.
Pros:
 - I/D TLB Miss never needs to write to the linux pte.
 - _PAGE_ACCESSED is only set on TLB Error fixing accounting
 - _PAGE_DIRTY is mapped to 0x100, the changed bit, and is set directly
    when a page has been made dirty.
 - Proper RO/RW mapping of user space.
 - Free up 2 SW TLB bits in the linux pte(add back _PAGE_WRITETHRU ?)
 - kernel RO/user NA support.
Cons:
 - A few more instructions in the TLB Miss routines.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      fe11dc3f
    • Nathan Fontenot's avatar
      sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files · 12633e80
      Nathan Fontenot authored 
      

Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to
Documentation/ABI.  There are no changes to any of the C code from v2
of the patch.

In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
and removing cpus to/from the system.

This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts
from writes to the sysfs files.

The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
capability will have the files created.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      12633e80
    • Nathan Fontenot's avatar
      powerpc/pseries: Kernel DLPAR Infrastructure · ab519a01
      Nathan Fontenot authored 
      

The Dynamic Logical Partitioning capabilities of the powerpc pseries platform
allows for the addition and removal of resources (i.e. CPU's, memory, and PCI
devices) from a partition. The removal of a resource involves
removing the resource's node from the device tree and then returning the
resource to firmware via the rtas set-indicator call.  To add a resource, it
is first obtained from firmware via the rtas set-indicator call and then a
new device tree node is created using the ibm,configure-coinnector rtas call
and added to the device tree.

This patch provides the kernel DLPAR infrastructure in a new filed named
dlpar.c.  The functionality provided is for acquiring and releasing a resource
from firmware and the parsing of information returned from the
ibm,configure-connector rtas call.  Additionally this exports the pSeries
reconfiguration notifier chain so that it can be invoked when device tree
updates are made.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ab519a01
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      powerpc/macio: Rework hotplug media bay support · d58b0c39
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored 
      

The hotplug mediabay has tendrils deep into drivers/ide code
which makes a libata port reather difficult. In addition it's
ugly and could be done better.

This reworks the interface between the mediabay and the rest
of the world so that:

   - Any macio_driver can now have a mediabay_event callback
which will be called when that driver sits on a mediabay and
it's been either plugged or unplugged. The device type is
passed as an argument. We can now move all the IDE cruft
into the IDE driver itself

   - A check_media_bay() function can be used to take a peek
at the type of device currently in the bay if any, a cleaner
variant of the previous function with the same name.

   - A pair of lock/unlock functions are exposed to allow the
IDE driver to block the hotplug callbacks during the initial
setup and probing of the bay in order to avoid nasty race
conditions.

   - The mediabay code no longer needs to spin on the status
register of the IDE interface when it detects an IDE device,
this is done just fine by the IDE code itself

Overall, less code, simpler, and allows for another driver
than our old drivers/ide based one.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      d58b0c39
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    • Ilya Loginov's avatar
      block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages · 2d4dc890
      Ilya Loginov authored 
      

Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      2d4dc890
  37. Nov 24, 2009