linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h, branch v3.2 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules powerpc/powernv: Basic support for OPAL 2011-09-20T06:09:50+00:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org 2011-09-19T17:44:57+00:00 14a43e69ed257a1fadadf9fea2c05adb1686419f Add definition of OPAL interfaces along with the wrappers to call into OPAL runtime and the early device-tree parsing hook to locate the OPAL runtime firmware. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 
Add definition of OPAL interfaces along with  the wrappers to call
into OPAL runtime and the early device-tree parsing hook to locate
the OPAL runtime firmware.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc/pseries: Add page coalescing support 2011-05-04T06:02:21+00:00 Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2011-05-04T06:01:20+00:00 9ee820fa005254dfc816330f6654f14dcb2beee1 Adds support for page coalescing, which is a feature on IBM Power servers which allows for coalescing identical pages between logical partitions. Hint text pages as coalesce candidates, since they are the most likely pages to be able to be coalesced between partitions. This patch also exports some page coalescing statistics available from firmware via lparcfg. [BenH: Moved a couple of things around to fix compile problems] Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 
Adds support for page coalescing, which is a feature on IBM Power servers
which allows for coalescing identical pages between logical partitions.
Hint text pages as coalesce candidates, since they are the most likely
pages to be able to be coalesced between partitions. This patch also
exports some page coalescing statistics available from firmware via
lparcfg.

[BenH: Moved a couple of things around to fix compile problems]

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Add VPHN firmware feature 2010-11-29T04:48:22+00:00 Jesse Larrew jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2010-11-09T13:24:48+00:00 36f567b42932a81866bf723779703ecc84cf714b This simple patch adds the firmware feature for VPHN to the firmware features bitmask. Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 
This simple patch adds the firmware feature for VPHN to the firmware
features bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Fix hypervisor TLB batching 2009-10-14T05:58:37+00:00 Anton Blanchard anton@samba.org 2009-10-11T21:47:34+00:00 b6dcde5c74d1cbf16da37202a14fa187dce6e4c0 Profiling of a page fault scalability microbenchmark shows flush_hash_range is not calling the batch hpte invalidate hcall (H_BULK_REMOVE). It turns out we have a duplicate firmware feature for hcall-bulk and the current setup code stops after finding the first match. This meant we never batch and always do individual invalidates. The patch below removes the duplicate and shifts FW_FEATURE_CMO to close the gap. With the patch applied the single threaded page fault rate improves from 217169 to 238755 per second on a POWER5 test box, a 10% improvement. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 
Profiling of a page fault scalability microbenchmark shows flush_hash_range
is not calling the batch hpte invalidate hcall (H_BULK_REMOVE).

It turns out we have a duplicate firmware feature for hcall-bulk and the
current setup code stops after finding the first match. This meant we never
batch and always do individual invalidates.

The patch below removes the duplicate and shifts FW_FEATURE_CMO to close
the gap. With the patch applied the single threaded page fault rate improves
from 217169 to 238755 per second on a POWER5 test box, a 10% improvement.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm 2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00 Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au 2008-08-01T05:20:30+00:00 b8b572e1015f81b4e748417be2629dfe51ab99f9 from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> 
from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>