* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (34 commits)
powerpc: Wireup new syscalls
Move update_mmu_cache() declaration from tlbflush.h to pgtable.h
powerpc/pseries: Remove kmalloc call in handling writes to lparcfg
powerpc/pseries: Update arch vector to indicate support for CMO
ibmvfc: Add support for collaborative memory overcommit
ibmvscsi: driver enablement for CMO
ibmveth: enable driver for CMO
ibmveth: Automatically enable larger rx buffer pools for larger mtu
powerpc/pseries: Verify CMO memory entitlement updates with virtual I/O
powerpc/pseries: vio bus support for CMO
powerpc/pseries: iommu enablement for CMO
powerpc/pseries: Add CMO paging statistics
powerpc/pseries: Add collaborative memory manager
powerpc/pseries: Utilities to set firmware page state
powerpc/pseries: Enable CMO feature during platform setup
powerpc/pseries: Split retrieval of processor entitlement data into a helper routine
powerpc/pseries: Add memory entitlement capabilities to /proc/ppc64/lparcfg
powerpc/pseries: Split processor entitlement retrieval and gathering to helper routines
powerpc/pseries: Remove extraneous error reporting for hcall failures in lparcfg
powerpc: Fix compile error with binutils 2.15
...
Fixed up conflict in arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/Kconfig manually.
Currently list of kretprobe instances are stored in kretprobe object (as
used_instances,free_instances) and in kretprobe hash table. We have one
global kretprobe lock to serialise the access to these lists. This causes
only one kretprobe handler to execute at a time. Hence affects system
performance, particularly on SMP systems and when return probe is set on
lot of functions (like on all systemcalls).
Solution proposed here gives fine-grain locks that performs better on SMP
system compared to present kretprobe implementation.
Solution:
1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances
present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table. We will have
two locks, one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another
lock for kretporbe object.
2) We hold lock present in kretprobe object while we modify kretprobe
instance in kretprobe object and we hold per-hash-list lock while
modifying kretprobe instances present in that hash list. To prevent
deadlock, we never grab a per-hash-list lock while holding a kretprobe
lock.
3) We can remove used_instances from struct kretprobe, as we can
track used instances of kretprobe instances using kretprobe hash
table.
Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8") on a 8-way ppc64 system
with return probes set on all systemcalls looks like this.
cacheline non-cacheline Un-patched kernel
aligned patch aligned patch
===============================================================================
real 9m46.784s 9m54.412s 10m2.450s
user 40m5.715s 40m7.142s 40m4.273s
sys 2m57.754s 2m58.583s 3m17.430s
===========================================================
Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8) on the same system, when
kernel is not probed.
=========================
real 9m26.389s
user 40m8.775s
sys 2m7.283s
=========================
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are only 4 valid name=value pairs for writes to
/proc/ppc64/lparcfg. Current code allocates a buffer to copy
this information in from the user. Since the longest name=value
pair will easily fit into a buffer of 64 characters, simply
put the buffer on the stack instead of allocating the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fotenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Update the architecture vector to indicate that Cooperative Memory
Overcommitment is supported if CONFIG_PPC_SMLPAR is set.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Verify memory entitlement updates can be handled by vio.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is a large patch but the normal code path is not affected. For
non-pSeries platforms the code is ifdef'ed out and for non-CMO enabled
pSeries systems this does not affect the normal code path. Devices that
do not perform DMA operations do not need modification with this patch.
The function get_desired_dma was renamed from get_io_entitlement for
clarity.
Overview
Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO) allows for a set of OS partitions
to be run with less RAM than the aggregate needs of the group of
partitions. The firmware will balance memory between the partitions
and page in/out memory as needed. Based on the number and type of IO
adpaters preset each partition is allocated an amount of memory for
DMA operations and this allocation will be guaranteed to the partition;
this is referred to as the partition's 'entitlement'.
Partitions running in a CMO environment can only have virtual IO devices
present. The VIO bus layer will manage the IO entitlement for the system.
Accounting, at a system and per-device level, is tracked in the VIO bus
code and exposed via sysfs. A set of dma_ops functions are added to
the bus to allow for this accounting.
Bus initialization
At initialization, the bus will calculate the minimum needs of the system
based on providing each device present with a standard minimum entitlement
along with a spare allocation for the bus to handle hotplug events.
If the minimum needs can not be met the system boot will be halted.
Device changes
The significant changes for devices while running under CMO are that the
devices must specify how much dedicated IO entitlement they desire and
must also handle DMA mapping errors that can occur due to constrained
IO memory. The virtual IO drivers are modified to silence errors when
DMA mappings fail for CMO and handle these failures gracefully.
Each devices will be guaranteed a minimum entitlement that can always
be mapped. Devices will specify how much entitlement they desire and
the VIO bus will attempt to provide for this. Devices can change their
desired entitlement level at any point in time to address particular needs
(via vio_cmo_set_dev_desired()), not just at device probe time.
VIO bus changes
The system will have a particular entitlement level available from which
it can provide memory to the devices. The bus defines two pools of memory
within this entitlement, the reserved and excess pools. Each device is
provided with it's own entitlement no less than a system defined minimum
entitlement and no greater than what the device has specified as it's
desired entitlement. The entitlement provided to devices comes from the
reserve pool. The reserve pool can also contain a spare allocation as
large as the system defined minimum entitlement which is used for device
hotplug events. Any entitlement not needed to fulfill the needs of a
reserve pool is placed in the excess pool. Each device is guaranteed
that it can map up to it's entitled level; additional mapping are possible
as long as there is unmapped memory in the excess pool.
Bus probe
As the system starts, each device is given an entitlement equal only
to the system defined minimum entitlement. The reserve pool is equal
to the sum of these entitlements, plus a spare allocation. The VIO bus
also tracks the aggregate desired entitlement of all the devices. If the
system desired entitlement is greater than the size of the reserve pool,
when devices unmap IO memory it will be reserved and a balance operation
will be scheduled for some time in the future.
Entitlement balancing
The balance function tries to fairly distribute entitlement between the
devices in the system with the goal of providing each device with it's
desired amount of entitlement. Devices using more than what would be
ideal will have their entitled set-point adjusted; this will effectively
set a goal for lower IO memory usage as future mappings can fail and
deallocations will trigger a balance operation to distribute the newly
unmapped memory. A fair distribution of entitlement can take several
balance operations to achieve. Entitlement changes and device DLPAR
events will alter the state of CMO and will trigger balance operations.
Hotplug events
The VIO bus allows for changes in system entitlement at run-time via
'vio_cmo_entitlement_update()'. When devices are added the hotplug
device event will be preceded by a system entitlement increase and this
is reversed when devices are removed.
The following changes are made that the VIO bus layer for CMO:
* add IO memory accounting per device structure.
* add IO memory entitlement query function to driver structure.
* during vio bus probe, if CMO is enabled, check that driver has
memory entitlement query function defined. Fail if function not defined.
* fail to register driver if io entitlement function not defined.
* create set of dma_ops at vio level for CMO that will track allocations
and return DMA failures once entitlement is reached. Entitlement will
limited by overall system entitlement. Devices will have a reserved
quantity of memory that is guaranteed, the rest can be used as available.
* expose entitlement, current allocation, desired allocation, and the
allocation error counter for devices to the user through sysfs
* provide mechanism for changing a device's desired entitlement at run time
for devices as an exported function and sysfs tunable
* track any DMA failures for entitled IO memory for each vio device.
* check entitlement against available system entitlement on device add
* track entitlement metrics (high water mark, current usage)
* provide function to reset high water mark
* provide minimum and desired entitlement numbers at a bus level
* provide drivers with a minimum guaranteed entitlement
* balance available entitlement between devices to satisfy their needs
* handle system entitlement changes and device hotplug
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To support Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO), we need to check
for failure from some of the tce hcalls.
These changes for the pseries platform affect the powerpc architecture;
patches for the other affected platforms are included in this patch.
pSeries platform IOMMU code changes:
* platform TCE functions must handle H_NOT_ENOUGH_RESOURCES errors and
return an error.
Architecture IOMMU code changes:
* Calls to ppc_md.tce_build need to check return values and return
DMA_MAPPING_ERROR for transient errors.
Architecture changes:
* struct machdep_calls for tce_build*_pSeriesLP functions need to change
to indicate failure.
* all other platforms will need updates to iommu functions to match the new
calling semantics; they will return 0 on success. The other platforms
default configs have been built, but no further testing was performed.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
With the addition of Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO) support
for IBM Power Systems, two fields have been added to the VPA to report
paging statistics. Add support in lparcfg to report them to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Split the retrieval of processor entitlement data returned in the H_GET_PPP
hcall into its own helper routine.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Update /proc/ppc64/lparcfg to display Cooperative Memory
Overcommitment statistics as reported by the H_GET_MPP hcall. This
also updates the lparcfg interface to allow setting memory entitlement
and weight.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Split the retrieval and setting of processor entitlement and weight into
helper routines. This also removes the printing of the raw values
returned from h_get_ppp, the values are already parsed and printed.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove the extraneous error reporting used when a hcall made from lparcfg fails.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
My previous patch to fix compilation with binutils-2.17 causes
a "file truncated" build error from ld with binutils 2.15 (and
possibly older), and a warning with 2.16 and 2.17.
This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chuck Meade <chuckmeade@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch implements support for HW based watchpoint via the
DBSR_DAC (Data Address Compare) facility of the BookE processors.
It does so by interfacing with the existing DABR breakpoint code
and adding the necessary bits and pieces for the new bits to
be properly set or cleared
Signed-off-by: Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
A struct sysdev_attribute * parameter was added to the show routine by
commit 4a0b2b4dbe "sysdev: Pass the
attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function".
This eliminates a warning:
arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c:538: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Stash the first platform string matched by identify_cpu() in
powerpc_base_platform, and supply that to the ELF loader for the value
of AT_BASE_PLATFORM.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
nohz: adjust tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call of s390 as well
nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop
On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:
u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.
Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.
See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch removes the old kgdb reminants from ARCH=powerpc and
implements the new style arch specific stub for the common kgdb core
interface.
It is possible to have xmon and kgdb in the same kernel, but you
cannot use both at the same time because there is only one set of
debug hooks.
The arch specific kgdb implementation saves the previous state of the
debug hooks and restores them if you unconfigure the kgdb I/O driver.
Kgdb should have no impact on a kernel that has no kgdb I/O driver
configured.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (49 commits)
powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils < 2.18 and GCC < 4.2
powerpc/eeh: Don't panic when EEH_MAX_FAILS is exceeded
fbdev: Teaches offb about palette on radeon r5xx/r6xx
powerpc/cell/edac: Log a syndrome code in case of correctable error
powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code
powerpc: Indicate which oprofile counters to use while in compat mode
powerpc/boot: Change spaces to tabs
powerpc: Remove duplicate 6xx option in Kconfig
powerpc: Use PPC_LONG and PPC_LONG_ALIGN in lib/string.S
powerpc: Use PPC_LONG_ALIGN in uaccess.h
powerpc: Add a #define for aligning to a long-sized boundary
powerpc: Fix OF parsing of 64 bits PCI addresses
powerpc: Use WARN_ON(1) instead of __WARN()
powerpc: Fix support for latencytop
powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig
powerpc/ps3: Add a sub-match id to ps3_system_bus
powerpc: Add a 6xx defconfig
powerpc/dma: Use the struct dma_attrs in iommu code
powerpc/cell: Add support for power button of future IBM cell blades
powerpc/cell: Cleanup sysreset_hack for IBM cell blades
...
This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This
happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic
in this linker script. People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into
this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data
into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address).
To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy"
segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a
non-zero load address. It's not enough to always create the
"notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load
address will be zero.
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-By: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
While running on a system with new hardware and a kernel where the
cpu_specs[] table does not recognize the new hardware, the identify_cpu()
routine will select the default case as it searches through cpu_specs[]
in an attempt to match the real PVR. Once the default case is selected,
non of the oprofile counters and/or fields have been set up or defined.
When identify_cpu() is called once more with the logical PVR, some of
the cpu specific fields are replaced with the exception of the oprofile
related ones. However, in the case where we have actually taken the
default case while searching for the real PVR, we need to tell
oprofile that we are now running in compatibility mode so it can pick up
the correct counters. We do this by setting the oprofile_cpu_type field
to be that taken from the cpu_specs[] for the cpu we are now emulating.
This change will detect that we are now altering the real PVR and determine
if we also need to update the oprofile_cpu_type field.
Signed-off-by: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The OF parsing code for PCI addresses isn't always treating properly
the address space indication 0b11 (ie. 0x3) as meaning 64 bits
memory space.
This means that it fails to parse addresses for PCI BARs that have
this encoding set by the firmware, which happens on some SLOF
versions and breaks offb palette handling on Powerstation.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
We need to pass the kernel stack pointer instead of the user space
stack pointer in save_stack_trace_tsk().
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Update iommu_alloc() to take the struct dma_attrs and pass them on to
tce_build(). This change propagates down to the tce_build functions of
all the platforms.
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:
scheduler switch to idle task
enable interrupts
Window starts here
----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
irq_exit() stops the tick
----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
return from schedule()
cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
Window ends here
The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.
The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
cpu_idle()
{
preempt_disable();
while(1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
are in the idle loop
while (!need_resched())
halt();
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
}
}
In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ...
/me grabs a large brown paperbag.
Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>,
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This converts the FSL Book-E PTE access and TLB miss handling to match
with the recent changes to 44x that introduce support for non-atomic PTE
operations in pgtable-ppc32.h and removes write back to the PTE from
the TLB miss handlers. In addition, the DSI interrupt code no longer
tries to fixup write permission, this is left to generic code, and
_PAGE_HWWRITE is gone.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Push the sync below the secondary smp init hold loop and comment its purpose.
This should speed up boot by reducing global traffic during the single-threaded
portion of boot.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
VSX loads and stores will take an alignment exception when the address
is not on a 4 byte boundary.
This add support for these alignment exceptions and will emulate the
requested load or store.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
giveup_vsx didn't save the FPU and VMX regsiters. Change it to be
like giveup_fpr/altivec which save these registers.
Also update call sites where FPU and VMX are already saved to use the
original giveup_vsx (renamed to __giveup_vsx).
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Implement save_stack_trace_tsk on powerpc, so that we can run with
latencytop.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Background from Maynard Johnson:
As of POWER6, a set of 32 common events is defined that must be
supported on all future POWER processors. The main impetus for this
compat set is the need to support partition migration, especially from
processor P(n) to processor P(n+1), where performance software that's
running in the new partition may not be knowledgeable about processor
P(n+1). If a performance tool determines it does not support the
physical processor, but is told (via the
PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT bit) that the processor supports
the notion of the PMU compat set, then the performance tool can
surface just those events to the user of the tool.
PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT indicates that the PMU supports at
least this basic subset of events which is compatible across POWER
processor lines.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Today's linux-next build (powerpc allmodconfig) failed like this:
ERROR: ".save_stack_trace" [tests/backtracetest.ko] undefined!
But save_stack_trace is exported in arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
I couldn't figure it out until I noticed these earlier warnings:
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
I applied the patch below.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For some reason long ago I decided that we should zero out the time base
when we calibrate the decrementer. The problem is that this can be
harmful in SMP systems where the firmware has already synchronized the
time bases on the various cores.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
This is some preliminary work to improve TLB management on SW loaded
TLB powerpc platforms. This introduce support for non-atomic PTE
operations in pgtable-ppc32.h and removes write back to the PTE from
the TLB miss handlers. In addition, the DSI interrupt code no longer
tries to fixup write permission, this is left to generic code, and
_PAGE_HWWRITE is gone.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
regs is not used in emulate_fp_pair so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When the ucontext changed to add the VSX context, this broke backwards
compatibly on swapcontext. swapcontext only compares the ucontext size
passed in from the user to the new kernel ucontext size.
This adds a check against the old ucontext size (with VMX but without
VSX). It also adds some sanity check for ucontexts without VSX, but
where VSX is used according the MSR. Fixes for both 32 and 64bit
processes on 64bit kernels
Kudos to Paulus for noticing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Choose a more meaningful name for better System.map readability and
autopsy value etc.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
