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Paul Mackerras 1f6a93e4c3 powerpc: Make it possible to move the interrupt handlers away from the kernel
This changes the way that the exception prologs transfer control to
the handlers in 64-bit kernels with the aim of making it possible to
have the prologs separate from the main body of the kernel.  Now,
instead of computing the address of the handler by taking the top
32 bits of the paca address (to get the 0xc0000000........ part) and
ORing in something in the bottom 16 bits, we get the base address of
the kernel by doing a load from the paca and add an offset.

This also replaces an mfmsr and an ori to compute the MSR value for
the handler with a load from the paca.  That makes it unnecessary to
have a separate version of EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES that forces 64-bit
mode.

We can no longer use a direct branches in the exception prolog code,
which means that the SLB miss handlers can't branch directly to
.slb_miss_realmode any more.  Instead we have to compute the address
and do an indirect branch.  This is conditional on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE;
for non-relocatable kernels we use a direct branch as before.  (A later
change will allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE to be set on 64-bit powerpc.)

Since the secondary CPUs on pSeries start execution in the first 0x100
bytes of real memory and then have to get to wherever the kernel is,
we can't use a direct branch to get there.  Instead this changes
__secondary_hold_spinloop from a flag to a function pointer.  When it
is set to a non-NULL value, the secondary CPUs jump to the function
pointed to by that value.

Finally this eliminates one code difference between 32-bit and 64-bit
by making __secondary_hold be the text address of the secondary CPU
spinloop rather than a function descriptor for it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-09-15 11:08:08 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] fix osf_getdirents() 2008-08-25 01:18:06 -04:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2008-09-08 15:50:19 -07:00
avr32 avr32: pm_standby low-power ram bug fix 2008-09-01 13:04:09 +02:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: Fix PM building on BF52x: No ROTWE on BF52x, add USBWE 2008-08-28 17:32:01 +08:00
cris removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
frv FRV: Wire up new system calls 2008-08-01 13:03:49 -07:00
h8300 [h8300] move include/asm-h8300 to arch/h8300/include/asm 2008-08-13 14:26:32 -07:00
ia64 lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
m32r m32r: use generic show_mem() 2008-07-26 12:00:11 -07:00
m68k m68k: atari_keyb_init operator precedence fix 2008-09-02 10:57:52 -07:00
m68knommu m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new system calls 2008-08-11 10:37:34 -07:00
mips [MIPS] IP22: Fix detection of second HPC3 on Challenge S 2008-09-08 18:45:39 +02:00
mn10300 removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
parisc lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Make it possible to move the interrupt handlers away from the kernel 2008-09-15 11:08:08 -07:00
s390 [S390] CVE-2008-1514: prevent ptrace padding area read/write in 31-bit mode 2008-09-09 12:39:06 +02:00
sh sh64: resume_kernel fix for kernel oops built with CONFIG_BKL_PREEMPT=y. 2008-09-05 14:51:28 +09:00
sparc sparc: Fix resource flags for PCI children in OF device tree. 2008-08-28 22:59:10 -07:00
sparc64 sparc64: Prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on offline CPUs 2008-09-03 02:15:30 -07:00
um uml: fix tty-related build error 2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-09-09 12:23:41 -07:00
xtensa remove unneeded #include <linux/ide.h>'s 2008-08-05 18:17:00 +02:00
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Kconfig tracehook: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2008-07-26 12:00:09 -07:00