5508 Commits

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Paul Mackerras
66faf9845a [PATCH] ppc64: tell firmware about kernel capabilities
On pSeries systems, according to the platform architecture specs, we are
supposed to be supplying a structure to firmware that tells firmware about
our capabilities, such as which version of the data structures that
describe available memory we are expecting to see.  The way we end up
having to supply this data structure is a bit gross, since it was designed
for AIX and doesn't suit us very well.  This patch adds the code to supply
this data structure to the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:45 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
58366af586 [PATCH] ppc64: update to use the new 4L headers
This patch converts ppc64 to use the generic pgtable-nopud.h instead of the
"fixup" header.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:44 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
0339ad77c4 [PATCH] ppc64: nvram cleanups
- Fix

  arch/ppc64/kernel/nvram.c:342: warning: `part' might be used uninitialized in this function

- Various codingstyle tweaks.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:44 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
dc3ec7503e [PATCH] ppc64: Fix irq parsing on powermac
When I tried Ben's patches to the powermac sound driver on my G5, I found
that it was taking enormous numbers of sound DMA transmit interrupts.  This
turned out to be because it was incorrectly configured as level-sensitive
instead of edge-sensitive, which in turn was because the code that parses
the interrupt tree that Open Firmware gives us was incorrectly assigning
another device the same irq number as the sound DMA transmit interrupt
(i.e.  1).

This patch fixes the problem, in a somewhat quick and dirty way for now,
but one which will work for all the machines we currently run on.
Ultimately Ben and I want to do something more general and robust, but this
should go in for 2.6.12.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:44 -07:00
Olof Johansson
bb78cb7220 [PATCH] ppc64: remove unused argument to create_slbe
Remove vsid argument to create_slbe, since it's no longer used.

Spotted by R Sharada.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:44 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1b29f9d13e [PATCH] ppc64: add PT_NOTE section to vDSO
This patch from Roland adds a PT_NOTE section to both 32 and 64 bits vDSOs
to expose the kernel version to glibc, thus avoiding a uname syscall on
every launch.  This is equivalent to the patches Roland posted already for
x86 and x86-64.

Note: the 64 bits .note is actually using the 32 bits format.  This is
normal.  The ELF spec specifies a different format for 64 bits .note, but
for some reason, this was never properly implemented, the core dumps for
example are all using 32 bits format .note, and binutils cannot even read a
64 bits format .note.  Talking to our toolchain folks, they think we'd
rather stick to 32 bits format .note everywhere and get the spec fixed some
day ...

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:43 -07:00
Dan Malek
1bdacf88eb [PATCH] ppc32: workaround for spurious IRQs on PQ2
There is a problem with large amounts of spurious IRQs on PowerPC 82xx
systems.

The problem is corrected by adding sync at the end of cpm2_mask_and_ack.
This may be needed on 8xx as well but has not yet been confirmed.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:42 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
d5812a77e5 [PATCH] ppc32: Fix address checking on lmw/stmw align exception
The handling of misaligned load/store multiple instructions did not check
to see if the address was ok to access before using __{get,put}_user().

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:42 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b20cc8aff2 [PATCH] ppc32: Fix a sleep issues on some laptops
Some earlier models of aluminium powerbooks and ibook G4s have a clock chip
that requires some tweaking before and after sleep.  It seems that without
that magic incantation to disable and re-enable clock spreading, RAM isn't
properly refreshed during sleep.  This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:42 -07:00
Chris Elston
a497aa20e5 [PATCH] ppc32: add rtc hooks in PPC7D platform file
This patch adds the hooks into the PPC7D platforms file to support the DS1337
RTC device as the clock device for the PPC7D board.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <chris.elston@radstone.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:41 -07:00
Chris Elston
630710e3f7 [PATCH] ppc32: fix for misreported SDRAM size on Radstone PPC7D platform
This patch fixes the SDRAM output from /proc/cpuinfo.  The previous code
assumed that there was only one bank of SDRAM, and that the size in the memory
configuration register was the total size.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <chris.elston@radstone.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:40 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
443a848cd3 [PATCH] ppc32: refactor FPU exception handling
Moved common FPU exception handling code out of head.S so it can be used by
several of the sub-architectures that might of a full PowerPC FPU.

Also, uses new CONFIG_PPC_FPU define to fix alignment exception handling
for floating point load/store instructions to only occur if we have a
hardware FPU.

Signed-off-by: Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:40 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
f1c55dea0b [PATCH] ppc32: Fix errata for some G3 CPUs
Some G3 CPUs can crash in funny way 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 and when waking from sleep.  It also makes
the code that decides wether HID0_BTIC and HID0_DPM are allowed on a given CPU
smarter (it can actually _clear_ them now if they are not allowed instead of
just setting them when they are allowed in case the firmware got them wrong)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:40 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
b3d9ae4b98 [PATCH] kbuild/ppc: tell when uimage was not built
Tom Rini said:
  Note that there is still a trivial'ish change to make.  When mkimage
  doesn't exist on the host we should say "uImage not made" or
  something similar.

So I did like Tom asked.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-30 16:51:42 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
2cacb3da62 [PATCH] kbuild/i386: re-introduce dependency on vmlinux for install target, and add kernel_install
Removing the dependency on vmlinux for the install target raised a few
complaints, so instead a new target i added: kernel_install.

kernel_install will install the kernel just like the ordinary install target.
The only difference is that install has a dependency on vmlinux,
kernel_install does not. Therefore kernel_install is the best choice
when accessing the kernel over a NFS mount or as another user.

kernel_install is similar to modules_install in the fact that neither does
a full kernel compile before performing the install.
In this way they are good for root use. Also added back the
dependency on vmlinux for the install target so peoples scripts are no
longer broken.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-30 16:51:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d651f3332 Merge of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-rmk.git 2005-04-30 15:42:33 -07:00
Russell King
4774e2260c [PATCH] ARM: IntegratorCP: Fix CLCD MUX selection values
The documentation on these values seems to be rather wrong.
These values have been determined by mere trial and error.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-30 23:32:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
49e7dc54cd Merge of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-rmk.git 2005-04-30 13:34:21 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
9747dd6fa9 [PATCH] ppc64: fix 32-bit signal frame back link
When the kernel creates a signal frame on the user stack, it puts the
old stack pointer value at the beginning so that the signal frame is
linked into the chain of stack frames like any other frame.
Unfortunately, for 32-bit processes we are writing the old stack
pointer as a 64-bit value rather than a 32-bit value, and the process
sees that as a null pointer, since it only looks at the first 32 bits,
which are zero since ppc is bigendian and the stack pointer is below
4GB.  This bug is in SLES9 and RHEL4 too, hence the ccs.

This patch fixes the bug by making the signal code write the old stack
pointer as a u32 instead of an unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-30 10:01:40 -07:00
Russell King
bb9bffcbef [PATCH] ARM: PXA I2C: add platform device
Add the PXA I2C platform device.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-30 13:26:06 +01:00
Russell King
d5aa207e46 [PATCH] ARM: RTC: allow driver methods to return error
Allow RTC drivers to return error codes from their read_time
or read_alarm methods.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-30 12:19:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
dd96a8e056 Merge of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-rmk.git 2005-04-29 15:06:00 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek
53e173f62c [PATCH] ARM: 2660/2: fix ixdp2800 boot and pci init
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

The IXDP2800 is an evalution platform for the IXP2800 processor that
has two IXP2800s connected to the same PCI bus.  This is problematic
as both CPUs will try to configure the PCI bus as they boot linux.
Contrary to on the other IXP2000 platforms, the boot loader on the
IXDP2800 doesn't configure the PCI bus properly, so we do want the
linux instance on one of the CPUs to do that.
Making one of the CPUs ignore the PCI bus (and thus act like a pure
PCI slave device) is not an option because there is a 82559 NIC on
the PCI bus for each of the CPUs.
The chosen solution is to have the master CPU configure the PCI bus
while the slave is kept in a quiescent state, and then to have the
slave CPU scan the PCI bus (without assigning resources) while the
master is kept in a quiescent state.  After this ritual, the master
deletes the slave NIC from its PCI device list, the slave deletes
the master NIC from its device list, and (almost) all is well.
There's still one little problem: each of the CPUs has a 1G SDRAM
BAR, but the IXP2000 only has 512M of outbound PCI memory window.
We solve this by hand-assigning the master and slave SDRAM BARs to
a location outside each of the IXP's outbound PCI windows, and by
having the rest of the BARs autoconfigured in the outbound PCI
windows, in the range [e0000000..ffffffff], so that there is a 1:1
pci:phys mapping between them.
Even with this patch, a number of issues still remain -- just imagine
what happens if one of the CPUs is rebooted, by watchdog or by hand,
but the other one isn't.  But those issues are not easily fixable
given the strange PCI layout of this board and the behavior of the
boot loader shipped with the platform.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:13:57 +01:00
George G. Davis
ca315159df [PATCH] ARM: 2656/1: Access permission bits are wrong for kernel XIP sections on ARMv6
Patch from George G. Davis

This patch is required for kernel XIP support on ARMv6 machines.  It ensures that the access permission bits for kernel XIP section descriptors are APX=1 and AP[1:0]=01, which is Kernel read-only/User no access permissions.  Prior to this change, kernel XIP section descriptor access permissions were set to Kernel no access/User no access on ARMv6 machines and the kernel would therefore hang upon entry to userspace when set_fs(USER_DS) was executed.

Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:35 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
2d2669b629 [PATCH] ARM: 2651/3: kernel helpers for NPTL support
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
nor special system call.  This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
at a fixed address in kernel memory.  Those fixed entry points are
within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
location anyway.
This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
overhead to such minimalistic operations.
The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number.  This is done for two
reasons:
1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
   retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
   gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
   NPTL work is still progressing).
2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
   instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
   determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
   much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
   present or not.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:33 +01:00
George G. Davis
3a1e501511 [PATCH] ARM: 2655/1: ARM1136 SWP instruction abort handler fix
Patch from George G. Davis

As noted in http://www.arm.com/linux/patch-2.6.9-arm1.gz, the "Faulty SWP instruction on 1136 doesn't set bit 11 in DFSR." So the v6_early_abort handler does not report the correct rd/wr direction for the SWP instruction which may result in SEGVS or hangs. In order to work around this problem, this patch merely updates the fix contained in the ARM Ltd. patch to use the macroised abort handler fixups.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:33 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek
458a83fa43 [PATCH] ARM: 2659/1: do not assign PCI I/O address zero on IXP2000
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Assigning the address zero to a PCI device BAR causes some part of the
PCI subsystem to believe that resource allocation for that BAR failed
due to resource conflicts, which will make attempts to enable the
device fail.  Work around this by assigning I/O addresses starting
from 00010000.
While we're at it, make the PCI I/O resource end at 0001ffff, since we
only have 64k of outbound I/O window on the IXP2000, and we don't do
bank switching.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 21:58:16 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek
ae36bf5861 [PATCH] ARM: 2658/1: start ixp2000 pci memory resource at 0xe0000000
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

On the IXDP2800, the bootloader does an awful job of configuring
the PCI bus, so we make linux reconfigure everything.  Having a 1:1
pci:phys address mapping generally simplifies everything, so try to
allocate PCI addresses from the [e0000000..ffffffff] range, which is
the physical address range of the outbound PCI window on the IXP2000.
This does not affect any of the other IXP2000 platforms since they
all use their bootloader's PCI resource assignment.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 21:58:15 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek
8443b165f1 [PATCH] ARM: 2657/1: export ixp2000_pci_config_addr
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Export ixp2000_pci_config_addr, to be used by the IXDP2800 platform
setup code to coordinate booting the master and slave NPU.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 21:58:15 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
a879cbbb34 x86: make traps on 'iret' be debuggable in user space
This makes a trap on the 'iret' that returns us to user space
cause a nice clean SIGSEGV, instead of just a hard (and silent)
exit.

That way a debugger can actually try to see what happened, and
we also properly notify everybody who might be interested about
us being gone.

This loses the error code, but tells the debugger what happened
with ILL_BADSTK in the siginfo.
2005-04-29 09:38:44 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
67eb81e168 mips: warning fix audit_arch()
arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c:305: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-04-29 16:13:35 +01:00
Amy Griffis
3ac3ed555b [PATCH] fix ia64 syscall auditing
Attached is a patch against David's audit.17 kernel that adds checks
for the TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT thread flag to the ia64 system call and
signal handling code paths.The patch enables auditing of system
calls set up via fsys_bubble_down, as well as ensuring that
audit_syscall_exit() is called on return from sigreturn.

Neglecting to check for TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT at these points results in
incorrect information in audit_context, causing frequent system panics
when system call auditing is enabled on an ia64 system.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-04-29 16:12:55 +01:00
2fd6f58ba6 [AUDIT] Don't allow ptrace to fool auditing, log arch of audited syscalls.
We were calling ptrace_notify() after auditing the syscall and arguments,
but the debugger could have _changed_ them before the syscall was actually
invoked. Reorder the calls to fix that.

While we're touching ever call to audit_syscall_entry(), we also make it
take an extra argument: the architecture of the syscall which was made,
because some architectures allow more than one type of syscall.

Also add an explicit success/failure flag to audit_syscall_exit(), for
the benefit of architectures which return that in a condition register
rather than only returning a single register.

Change type of syscall return value to 'long' not 'int'.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-04-29 16:08:28 +01:00
Roland McGrath
c60c390620 [PATCH] x86_64: fix PT_NOTE addition to IA32 vDSO
The addition of the PT_NOTE didn't take in the x86_64 version of the i386
vDSO, because I forgot the linker script bit in that copy.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-28 22:47:29 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
8e3e50168c [IA64] need r29=psr *after* rsm psr.i
Yanmin Zhang pointed out a sequence problem when saving the psr.  David
Mosberger provided this patch (which gave up a cycle).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:22:40 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
e7e965fa19 [IA64] use srlz.d instead of srlz.i in ia64_leave_kernel()
This patch switches the srlz.i in ia64_leave_kernel() to srlz.d.  As
per architecture manual, the former is needed only to ensure that the
clearing of PSR.IC is seen by the VHPT for subsequent instruction
fetches.  However, since the remainder of the code (up to and
including the RFI instruction) is mapped by a pinned TLB entry, there
is no chance of an iTLB miss and we don't care whether or not the VHPT
sees PSR.IC cleared.  Since srlz.d is substantially cheaper than
srlz.i, this should shave off a few cycles off the interrupt path
(unverified though; I'm not setup to measure this at the moment).

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:22:08 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
fbf7192ba0 [IA64] Annotate fsys_bubble_down() with McKinley dispatch info.
This patch changes comments & formatting only.  There is no code
change.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:21:26 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
1ba7be7d69 [IA64] Reschedule fsys_bubble_down().
Improvements come from eliminating srlz.i, not scheduling AR/CR-reads
too early (while there are others still pending), scheduling the
backing-store switch as well as possible, splitting the BBB bundle
into a MIB/MBB pair.

Why is it safe to eliminate the srlz.i?  Observe
that we used to clear bits ~PSR_PRESERVED_BITS in PSR.L.  Since
PSR_PRESERVED_BITS==PSR.{UP,MFL,MFH,PK,DT,PP,SP,RT,IC}, we
ended up clearing PSR.{BE,AC,I,DFL,DFH,DI,DB,SI,TB}.  However,

 PSR.BE : already is turned off in __kernel_syscall_via_epc()
 PSR.AC : don't care (kernel normally turns PSR.AC on)
 PSR.I  : already turned off by the time fsys_bubble_down gets invoked
 PSR.DFL: always 0 (kernel never turns it on)
 PSR.DFH: don't care --- kernel never touches f32-f127 on its own
	  initiative
 PSR.DI : always 0 (kernel never turns it on)
 PSR.SI : always 0 (kernel never turns it on)
 PSR.DB : don't care --- kernel never enables kernel-level breakpoints
 PSR.TB : must be 0 already; if it wasn't zero on entry to
	  __kernel_syscall_via_epc, the branch to fsys_bubble_down
	  will trigger a taken branch; the taken-trap-handler then
	  converts the syscall into a break-based system-call.

In other words: all the bits we're clearying are either 0 already or
are don't cares!  Thus, we don't have to write PSR.L at all and we
don't have to do a srlz.i either.

Good for another ~20 cycle improvement for EPC-based heavy-weight
syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:20:51 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
21bc4f9b34 [IA64] Annotate __kernel_syscall_via_epc() with McKinley dispatch info.
Two other very minor changes: use "mov.i" instead of "mov" for reading
ar.pfs (for clarity; doesn't affect the code at all).  Also, predicate
the load of r14 for consistency.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:20:11 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
70929a57cf [IA64] Reschedule __kernel_syscall_via_epc().
Avoid some stalls, which is good for about 2 cycles when invoking a
light-weight handler.  When invoking a heavy-weight handler, this
helps by about 7 cycles, with most of the improvement coming from the
improved branch-prediction achieved by splitting the BBB bundle into
two MIB bundles.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:19:37 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
f8fa5448fc [IA64] Reschedule break_fault() for better performance.
This patch reorganizes break_fault() to optimistically assume that a
system-call is being performed from user-space (which is almost always
the case).  If it turns out that (a) we're not being called due to a
system call or (b) we're being called from within the kernel, we fixup
the no-longer-valid assumptions in non_syscall() and .break_fixup(),
respectively.

With this approach, there are 3 major phases:

 - Phase 1: Read various control & application registers, in
	    particular the current task pointer from AR.K6.
 - Phase 2: Do all memory loads (load system-call entry,
	    load current_thread_info()->flags, prefetch
	    kernel register-backing store) and switch
	    to kernel register-stack.
 - Phase 3: Call ia64_syscall_setup() and invoke
	    syscall-handler.

Good for 26-30 cycles of improvement on break-based syscall-path.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:19:04 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
c03f058fbf [IA64] In ia64_leave_syscall(), fix comments and whitespace only.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:18:22 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
87e522a0f7 [IA64] Schedule ia64_leave_syscall() to read ar.bsp earlier
Reschedule code to read ar.bsp as early as possible.  To enable this,
don't bother clearing some of the registers when we're returning to
kernel stacks.  Also, instead of trying to support the pNonSys case
(which makes no sense), do a bugcheck instead (with break 0).  Finally,
remove a clear of r14 which is a left-over from the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:17:44 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
060561ff79 [IA64] In syscall-entry, use st8 instead of stf8 to clear pt_regs.r8
Using stf8 seemed like a clever idea at the time, but stf8 forces
the cache-line to be invalidated in the L1D (if it happens to be
there already).  This patch eliminates a guaranteed L1D cache-miss
and, by itself, is good for a 1-2 cycle improvement for heavy-weight
syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:17:03 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
96e017495e [IA64] On return from syscall, hint b7 with __kernel_syscall_via_epc().
Why is this a good idea?  Clearing b7 to 0 is guaranteed to do us no
good and writing it with __kernel_syscall_via_epc() yields a 6 cycle
improvement _if_ the application performs another EPC-based system-
call without overwriting b7, which is not all that uncommon.  Well
worth the minimal cost of 1 bundle of code.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:16:07 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
3c79c8b1d9 [IA64] Schedule fp-clearing insns at least 6 cycles after reading ar.bsp.
Decreases syscall overhead by approximately 6 cycles.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:15:13 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
9ec1a7ad43 [IA64] Use dynamic prediction for RSE-clearing branches.
This by itself is good for a 1-2 cycle speed up.  Effect is bigger
when combined with the later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:13:33 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
06ef660816 [IA64] __ia64_syscall() is no longer used anywhere in the kernel. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-27 21:10:45 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
bdceb6a016 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix return value of some vDSO calls
The ppc vDSO would not properly clear the return value for some calls,
which will be a problem when interfacing those calls with glibc. This
should be fixed before 2.6.12 is released (as it is the first kernel
with the ppc vDSO) so that we don't have to play with symbol versioning
and ugly workarounds.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-27 18:04:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fc67b16eca Automatic merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git 2005-04-27 10:05:42 -07:00