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Johannes Berg
4312dc76a8 [POWERPC] make pmf irq_client functions safe against pmf interrupts coming in
This fixes the pmf irq_client functions to be safe against pmf interrupts coming
in while a client is registered/unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:27 +10:00
Dave C Boutcher
368a6ba5d1 [POWERPC] check firmware state before suspending
Currently the kernel blindly halts all the processors and calls the
ibm,suspend-me rtas call.  If the firmware is not in the correct
state, we then re-start all the processors and return.  It is much
smarter to first check the firmware state, and only if it is waiting,
call the ibm,suspend-me call.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:27 +10:00
Amos Waterland
0e4aa9c200 [POWERPC] Fix builtin command line interaction with firmware
It seems that prom_init's early_cmdline_parse is broken on at least
Apple 970 xserves and IBM JS20 blades with SLOF.  The firmware of these
machines returns -1 and 1 respectively when getprop is called for the
bootargs property of /chosen, causing Linux to ignore its builtin
command line in favor of a null string.  This patch makes Linux use its
builtin command line if getprop returns an error or a null string.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
6fe8767531 [POWERPC] update pmac32_defconfig
Some updates to the pmac32_defconfig to make it more useful:

- Enable LSF (large single files) since we enable LBD (large block devices)
- Enable IPSEC related options
- Enable remaining raid/dm options as modules
- Disable eth1394, I doubt any has that hardware and it has a nasty habit of
  auto loading first and skewing network device numbering
- Enable dummy and tun as modules, always useful to have them around
- Enable EHCI, no wonder my usb2 disk was so slow
- Enable USB storage
- Enable ext3 acls
- Disable autofs and enable autofsv4 instead
- Enable nfs v3/v4 client and server. Dont want to be left in the dark ages
  of pre v3
- Enable all crypto as modules, things like cryptsetup want some of them

I havent enabled the BCM43xx, perhaps we should now?

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
bd19c8994a [POWERPC] system call micro optimisation
In the syscall path we currently have:

       crclr   so
       mfcr    r9

If we shift the crclr up we can avoid a stall on some CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
9e6e3c2c79 [POWERPC] Fix HV bit handling on non partitioned machines
On non partitioned machines we currently set the HV bit in kernel space
only. It turns out we are supposed to maintain the HV bit in both user
and kernel space.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
df310656c7 [POWERPC] cleanup dma_mapping_ops
For pseries IOMMU bypass I want to be able to fall back to the regular
IOMMU ops. Do this by creating a dma_mapping_ops struct, and convert
the others while at it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
ca1588e71b [POWERPC] node local IOMMU tables
Allocate IOMMU tables local to the relevant node.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
357518fa34 [POWERPC] pcibus_to_node fixes
of_node_to_nid returns -1 if the associativity cannot be found. This
means pcibus_to_cpumask has to be careful not to pass a negative index into
node_to_cpumask.

Since pcibus_to_node could be used a lot, and of_node_to_nid is slow (it
walks a list doing strcmps), lets also cache the node in the
pci_controller struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
f2b09c8189 [POWERPC] Update pseries defconfig
pseries defconfig updates:

- Enable jsm and re-enable qlogic FC drivers as modules.
- Enable ocfs2, autofs4 and fuse filesystems as modules.
- Enable Kprobes.
- Enable ebus, binfmt_misc, sas attrs, md5 reshape, hvc rtas backend and
  some infiniband options.
- Finally disable debug options: DEBUG_MUTEXES and DEBUG_STACK_USAGE.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
227318bbde [POWERPC] Remove stale 64bit on 32bit kernel code
Remove some stale POWER3/POWER4/970 on 32bit kernel support.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
8555a0029b [POWERPC] Optimise some TOC usage
Micro-optimisation - add no-minimal-toc to some more arch/powerpc Makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
3a2c48cfc9 [POWERPC] 64bit FPSCR support
Forthcoming machines will extend the FPSCR to 64 bits.  We already
had a 64-bit save area for the FPSCR, but we need to use a new form
of the mtfsf instruction.  Fortunately this new form is decoded as
an ordinary mtfsf by existing 64-bit processors.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
mostrows@watson.ibm.com
30d8caf7c6 [POWERPC] Editable kernel command-line in zImage binary.
zImage will set /chosen/bootargs (if it is otherwise empty) with the
contents of a buffer in the section "__builtin_cmdline".  This permits
tools to edit zImage binaries to set the command-line eventually
processed by vmlinux.

--
Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
Jake Moilanen
204face4fb [POWERPC] MSI abstraction
Instead of trying to make PPC64 MSI fit in a Intel-centric MSI layer, a
simple short-term solution is to hook the pci_{en/dis}able_msi() calls
and make a machdep call.

The rest of the MSI functions are superfluous for what is needed at this
time.  Many of which can have machdep calls added as needed.

Ben and Michael Ellerman are looking into rewrite the MSI layer to be
more generic.  However, in the meantime this works as a interim
solution.

Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
Jake Moilanen
bb53bb3dcb [POWERPC] Add support for PCI-Express nodes in the device tree
This adds support to recognize the PCIe device_type "pciex" and made
the portdrv buildable.

Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
0f582bc1f2 powerpc: Simplify push_end definition in pci_32.c
The push_end macro in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c uses integer
division and multiplication to achieve the effect of rounding a
resource end address up and then advancing it to the end of a
power-of-2 sized region.  This changes it to an equivalent computation
that only needs an integer add and OR.  This is partly based on an
earlier patch by Mel Gorman.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:25:50 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
bf72aeba2f powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages
Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but
not for cache-inhibited pages.  This patch lets us use 64k hardware
pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel
has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y).  User processes
start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any
non-cacheable mappings.

With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for
the imalloc region.  If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in
the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages.
I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this,
though, and these machines don't have AGP.

When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have
to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately.  We
use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page
was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages.  If hash_page is
trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has
already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE
before inserting the 4k HPTE.  The hash invalidation routines also use
the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a
set of 4k HPTEs to remove.  With those two changes, we can tolerate a
mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get
removed when the address space is torn down.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 10:45:18 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
31925323b1 powerpc: Fix some missed ppc32 mm->context.id conversions
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-13 13:43:00 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
4306443128 powerpc: Remove unused paca->pgdir field
The pgdir field in the paca was a leftover from the dynamic VSIDs
patch, and is not used in the current kernel code.  This removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-12 18:38:21 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
7a0c58d051 Merge branch 'merge' 2006-06-12 17:53:34 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
289a1e995e [PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reported
People have been reporting that PPP connections over ptys, such as
used with PPTP, will hang randomly when transferring large amounts of
data, for instance in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530.
I have managed to reproduce the problem, and the patch below fixes the
actual cause.

The problem is not in fact in ppp_async.c but in n_tty.c.  What
happens is that when pptp reads from the pty, we call read_chan() in
drivers/char/n_tty.c on the master side of the pty.  That copies all
the characters out of its buffer to userspace and then calls
check_unthrottle(), which calls the pty unthrottle routine, which
calls tty_wakeup on the slave side, which calls ppp_asynctty_wakeup,
which calls tasklet_schedule.  So far so good.  Since we are in
process context, the tasklet runs immediately and calls
ppp_async_process(), which calls ppp_async_push, which calls the
tty->driver->write function to send some more output.

However, tty->driver->write() returns zero, because the master
tty->receive_room is still zero.  We haven't returned from
check_unthrottle() yet, and read_chan() only updates tty->receive_room
_after_ calling check_unthrottle.  That means that the driver->write
call in ppp_async_process() returns 0.  That would be fine if we were
going to get a subsequent wakeup call, but we aren't (we just had it,
and the buffer is now empty).

The solution is for n_tty.c to update tty->receive_room _before_
calling the driver unthrottle routine.  The patch below does this.
With this patch I was able to transfer a 900MB file over a PPTP
connection (taking about 25 minutes), whereas without the patch the
connection would always stall in under a minute.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-11 20:40:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
dc4967e756 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
  [PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore order
  [PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writeback
  [PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resume
  [PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled
2006-06-11 15:28:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
c0bbbc73d5 [PATCH] typo in vmscan.c
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Looks like a comma was left from the conversion from a struct to an
assignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-11 15:27:37 -07:00
Yu, Luming
8b8c8d280a [PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore order
According to Intel ICH spec, there are several rules that Base Address
should be programmed before IOSE  (PCICMD register ) enabled.

For example ICH7:

12.1.3  SATA : the base address register for the bus master register
               should be programmed before this bit is set.

11.1.3:  PCICMD (USB): The base address register for USB should be
                       programmed before this bit is set.
....

To make sure kernel code follow this rule , and prevent unnecessary
confusion. I proposal this patch.

Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11 14:02:27 -07:00
Dave Jones
04d9c1a110 [PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writeback
At least one laptop blew up on resume from suspend with a black screen due
to a lack of this patch.  By only writing back config space that is
different, we minimise the possibility of accidents like this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11 14:02:27 -07:00
Jean Delvare
8d92bc2270 [PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resume
We currently don't handle errors properly when resuming a PCI device:
* In pci_default_resume() we capture the error code returned by
  pci_enable_device() but don't pass it up to the caller.
  Introduced by commit 95a629657d
* In pci_resume_device(), the errors possibly returned by the driver's
  .resume method or by the generic pci_default_resume() function are
  ignored.

This patch fixes both issues.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11 14:02:27 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
0ce030395b [PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled
Fix build error when CONFIG_ACPI not defined

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11 14:02:27 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
650fb83822 [SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.
This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up
scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated
migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 22:03:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
9145bcf635 [SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 22:02:17 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
6218a761bb powerpc: add context.vdso_base for 32-bit too
This adds a vdso_base element to the mm_context_t for 32-bit compiles
(both for ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc).  This fixes the compile errors
that have been reported in arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-11 14:15:17 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
1f4d4a7e8f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
  [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.
  [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
  [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
2006-06-10 11:03:51 -07:00
Milton Miller
938473b246 [PATCH] powerpc: console_initcall ordering issues
From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>

The add_preferred_console call in rtas_console.c was not causing the
console to be selected.  It turns out that the add_preferred_console was
being called after the hvc_console driver was registered.  It only works
when it is called before the console driver is registered.

Reorder hvc_console.o after the hvc_console drivers to allow the selection
during console_initcall processing.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Markus Lidel
57a62fed87 [PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working again
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>

- Fixed locking of struct i2o_exec_wait in Executive-OSM

- Removed LCT Notify in i2o_exec_probe() which caused freeing memory and
  accessing freed memory during first enumeration of I2O devices

- Added missing locking in i2o_exec_lct_notify()

- removed put_device() of I2O controller in i2o_iop_remove() which caused
  the controller structure get freed to early

- Fixed size of mempool in i2o_iop_alloc()

- Fixed access to freed memory in i2o_msg_get()

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561

Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a913f50706 [PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaround
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Work around the oops reported in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478.

Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and
reporting.

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
David Howells
670bd95e04 [PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier document
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out
with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan
Stern.

The following changes were made:

 (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory
     barriers was wrong.

 (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is
     a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier.  This isn't entirely
     true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both.

 (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the
     loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the
     opposite order to the stores around the write barrier.

 (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to
     the stores.

 (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences"
     section to make them clearer.  Added a couple of diagrams to make it more
     clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier.

 (*) Added a section on memory speculation.

 (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory
     barriers.  They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on.  This may be
     worthy of further documentation later.

 (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a
     full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d90d2c385d Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support
  powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
2006-06-10 10:59:39 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
050613545b powerpc: Fix bug in iommu_alloc_coherent causing hang during boot
In commit 8eb6c6e3b9, Christoph Hellwig
made iommu_alloc_coherent able to do node-local allocations, but
unfortunately got the order of the arguments to alloc_pages_node
wrong.  This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-10 18:17:35 +10:00
David S. Miller
46b304934d [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
Doing PCI config space accesses to non-present PCI slots
can result in fatal JBUS errors if the PCI config access
hypervisor call is performed on cpus other than the boot
cpu.

PCI config space accesses to present PCI slots works just
fine.

Recursively traverse the OBP device tree under the PCI
controller node and record all present device IDs into
a small hash table.

Avoid the hypervisor call for any PCI config space access
attempt for a device not recorded in the hash table.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 01:06:25 -07:00
Tom "spot" Callaway
c29ca9d181 [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.
Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 17:01:48 -07:00
David S. Miller
f49639e643 [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
Get rid of all the SUN_570X logic and instead:

1) Make sure MEMARB_ENABLE is set when we probe the SRAM
   for config information.  If that is off we will get
   timeouts.

2) Always try to sync with the firmware, if there is no
   firmware running do not treat it as an error and instead
   just report it the first time we notice this condition.

3) If there is no valid SRAM signature, assume the device
   is onboard by setting TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT.

Update driver version and release date.

With help from Michael Chan and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 12:03:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
5224e6cc3a [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
This makes the debugging information more usable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 12:03:49 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
6b81e80049 [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup hvc_rtas.c a little
A few cleanups in hvc_rtas.c:
 1. Remove unused RTASCONS_PUT_ATTEMPTS
 2. Remove unused rtascons_put_delay.
 3. Use i as a loop counter like everyone else on earth.
 4. Remove pointless variables, eg. x = foo; if (x) return something_else;
 5. Whitespace cleanups and formatting.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:20 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
b53744612f [PATCH] powerpc: Make rtas console _much_ faster
Currently the hvc_rtas driver is painfully slow to use. Our "benchmark" is
ls -R /etc, which spits out about 27866 characters. The theoretical maximum
speed would be about 2.2 seconds, the current code takes ~50 seconds.

The core of the problem is that sometimes when the tty layer asks us to push
characters the firmware isn't able to handle some or all of them, and so
returns an error. The current code sees this and just returns to the tty code
with the buffer half sent.

The khvcd thread will eventually wake up and try to push more characters, which
will usually work because by then the firmware's had time to make room. But
the khvcd thread only wakes up every 10 milliseconds, which isn't fast enough.

So change the khvcd thread logic so that if there's an incomplete write we
yield() and then immediately try writing again. Doing so makes POLL_QUICK and
POLL_WRITE synonymous, so remove POLL_QUICK.

With this patch our "benchmark" takes ~2.8 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:18 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
e9370ae15d [PATCH] powerpc: Implement PR_[GS]ET_UNALIGN prctls for powerpc
This gives the ability to control whether alignment exceptions get
fixed up or reported to the process as a SIGBUS, using the existing
PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN prctls.  We do not implement the
option of logging a message on alignment exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:16 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
fab5db97e4 [PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctl
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change
their endian mode via prctl.

This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up
alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for
"PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian.

We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for
little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian
user/kernel ABI.  If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is
restored to what it was when the signal was delivered.

We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and
one for true little-endian.  Most of the classic 32-bit processors
support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature
table.  There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland
in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry.

This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:15 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
651d765d0b [PATCH] Add a prctl to change the endianness of a process.
This new prctl is intended for changing the execution mode of the
processor, on processors that support both a little-endian mode and a
big-endian mode.  It is intended for use by programs such as
instruction set emulators (for example an x86 emulator on PowerPC),
which may find it convenient to use the processor in an alternate
endianness mode when executing translated instructions.

Note that this does not imply the existence of a fully-fledged ABI for
both endiannesses, or of compatibility code for converting system
calls done in the non-native endianness mode.  The program is expected
to arrange for all of its system call arguments to be presented in the
native endianness.

Switching between big and little-endian mode will require some care in
constructing the instruction sequence for the switch.  Generally the
instructions up to the instruction that invokes the prctl system call
will have to be in the old endianness, and subsequent instructions
will have to be in the new endianness.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:13 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
3b5e905ee3 [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option
When debugging early kernel crashes that happen after console_init() and
before a proper console driver takes over, we often have to go hack into
udbg.c to prevent it from unregistering so we can "see" what is
happening. This patch adds a kernel command line option "udbg-immortal"
instead to avoid having to modify the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:10 +10:00
Michael Neuling
e78dbc800c [PATCH] powerpc: oprofile support for POWER6
POWER6 moves some of the MMCRA bits and also requires some bits to be
cleared each PMU interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:05 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
8eb6c6e3b9 [PATCH] powerpc: node-aware dma allocations
Make sure dma_alloc_coherent allocates memory from the local node.  This
is important on Cell where we avoid going through the slow cpu
interconnect.

Note:  I could only test this patch on Cell, it should be verified on
some pseries machine by those that have the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:01 +10:00