linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h, branch v3.12

powerpc: Convert some mftb/mftbu into mfspr

2013-08-21T00:33:12+00:00

Some CPUs (such as e500v1/v2) don't implement mftb and will take a
trap.  mfspr should work on everything that has a timebase, and is the
preferred instruction according to ISA v2.06.

Currently we get away with mftb on 85xx because the assembler converts
it to mfspr due to -Wa,-me500.  However, that flag has other effects
that are undesireable for certain targets (e.g.  lwsync is converted to
sync), and is hostile to multiplatform kernels.  Thus we would like to
stop setting it for all e500-family builds.

mftb/mftbu instances which are in 85xx code or common code are
converted.  Instances which will never run on 85xx are left alone.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood

powerpc/fsl-booke: Work around erratum A-006958

2013-08-20T20:45:49+00:00

Erratum A-006598 says that 64-bit mftb is not atomic -- it's subject
to a similar race condition as doing mftbu/mftbl on 32-bit.  The lower
half of timebase is updated before the upper half; thus, we can share
the workaround for a similar bug on Cell.  This workaround involves
looping if the lower half of timebase is zero, thus avoiding the need
for a scratch register (other than CR0).  This workaround must be
avoided when the timebase is frozen, such as during the timebase sync
code.

This deals with kernel and vdso accesses, but other userspace accesses
will of course need to be fixed elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood

powerpc: Fix little endian lppaca, slb_shadow and dtl_entry

2013-08-14T05:33:35+00:00

The lppaca, slb_shadow and dtl_entry hypervisor structures are
big endian, so we have to byte swap them in little endian builds.

LE KVM hosts will also need to be fixed but for now add an #error
to remind us.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Remove SAVE_VSRU and REST_VSRU macros

2013-08-14T01:50:22+00:00

We always use VMX loads and stores to manage the high 32
VSRs. Remove these unused macros.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Kill all prefetch streams on context switch

2013-05-31T22:29:25+00:00

On context switch, we should have no prefetch streams leak from one
userspace process to another.  This frees up prefetch resources for the
next process.

Based on patch from Milton Miller.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2013-02-24T01:09:55+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "So from the depth of frozen Minnesota, here's the powerpc pull request
  for 3.9.  It has a few interesting highlights, in addition to the
  usual bunch of bug fixes, minor updates, embedded device tree updates
  and new boards:

   - Hand tuned asm implementation of SHA1 (by Paulus & Michael
     Ellerman)

   - Support for Doorbell interrupts on Power8 (kind of fast
     thread-thread IPIs) by Ian Munsie

   - Long overdue cleanup of the way we handle relocation of our open
     firmware trampoline (prom_init.c) on 64-bit by Anton Blanchard

   - Support for saving/restoring & context switching the PPR (Processor
     Priority Register) on server processors that support it.  This
     allows the kernel to preserve thread priorities established by
     userspace.  By Haren Myneni.

   - DAWR (new watchpoint facility) support on Power8 by Michael Neuling

   - Ability to change the DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) which
     controls cache prefetching on a running process via ptrace by
     Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Support for context switching the TAR register on Power8 (new
     branch target register meant to be used by some new specific
     userspace perf event interrupt facility which is yet to be enabled)
     by Ian Munsie.

   - Improve preservation of the CFAR register (which captures the
     origin of a branch) on various exception conditions by Paulus.

   - Move the Bestcomm DMA driver from arch powerpc to drivers/dma where
     it belongs by Philippe De Muyter

   - Support for Transactional Memory on Power8 by Michael Neuling
     (based on original work by Matt Evans).  For those curious about
     the feature, the patch contains a pretty good description."

(See commit db8ff907027b: "powerpc: Documentation for transactional
memory on powerpc" for the mentioned description added to the file
Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (140 commits)
  powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
  powerpc/85xx: l2sram - Add compatible string for BSC9131 platform
  powerpc/85xx: bsc9131 - Correct typo in SDHC device node
  powerpc/e500/qemu-e500: enable coreint
  powerpc/mpic: allow coreint to be determined by MPIC version
  powerpc/fsl_pci: Store the pci ctlr device ptr in the pci ctlr struct
  powerpc/85xx: Board support for ppa8548
  powerpc/fsl: remove extraneous DIU platform functions
  arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/p1022_ds.c: adjust duplicate test
  powerpc: Documentation for transactional memory on powerpc
  powerpc: Add transactional memory to pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc: Add config option for transactional memory
  powerpc: Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features
  powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context
  powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code
  powerpc: Routines for FP/VSX/VMX unavailable during a transaction
  powerpc: Add transactional memory unavaliable execption handler
  powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes
  powerpc: Add FP/VSX and VMX register load functions for transactional memory
  powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching
  ...

powerpc: New macros for transactional memory support

2013-02-15T05:58:50+00:00

This adds new macros for saving and restoring checkpointed architected state
from and to the thread_struct.

It also adds some debugging macros for when your brain explodes trying to debug
your transactional memory enabled kernel.

Signed-off-by: Matt Evans 
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting

2013-01-27T18:23:27+00:00

If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be
able to account the cputime without using the tick.

Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by
hooking into kernel/user boundaries.

However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require
low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already
have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required
for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick
outside idle.

This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime
accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks.

There are some upsides of doing this:

- This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full
tickless mode).

- We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically
(de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual
and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead
of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically.

And one downside:

- There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime
accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

powerpc: Macros for saving/restore PPR

2013-01-10T06:01:10+00:00

[PATCH 5/6] powerpc: Macros for saving/restore PPR

Several macros are defined for saving and restore user defined PPR value.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Move branch instruction from ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY to caller

2013-01-10T06:00:59+00:00

[PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Move branch instruction from ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY to caller

The first instruction in ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY is 'beq' which checks for
exceptions coming from kernel mode. PPR value will be saved immediately after
ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY and is also for user level exceptions. So moved this
branch instruction in the caller code.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt