linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, branch v3.10.2

powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching

2013-02-15T05:58:52+00:00

Here we add the helper functions to be used when context switching.  These
allow us to fully reclaim and recheckpoint a transaction.

We introduce a new paca field called tm_scratch to help us store away register
values when doing the low level tm reclaim register save.

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

powerpc: Build kernel with -mcmodel=medium

2013-01-10T06:00:31+00:00

Finally remove the two level TOC and build with -mcmodel=medium.

Unfortunately we can't build modules with -mcmodel=medium due to
the tricks the kernel module loader plays with percpu data:

# -mcmodel=medium breaks modules because it uses 32bit offsets from
# the TOC pointer to create pointers where possible. Pointers into the
# percpu data area are created by this method.
#
# The kernel module loader relocates the percpu data section from the
# original location (starting with 0xd...) to somewhere in the base
# kernel percpu data space (starting with 0xc...). We need a full
# 64bit relocation for this to work, hence -mcmodel=large.

On older kernels we fall back to the two level TOC (-mminimal-toc)

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

powerpc: Relocate prom_init.c on 64bit

2013-01-10T06:00:25+00:00

The ppc64 kernel can get loaded at any address which means
our very early init code in prom_init.c must be relocatable. We do
this with a pretty nasty RELOC() macro that we wrap accesses of
variables with. It is very fragile and sometimes we forget to add a
RELOC() to an uncommon path or sometimes a compiler change breaks it.

32bit has a much more elegant solution where we build prom_init.c
with -mrelocatable and then process the relocations manually.
Unfortunately we can't do the equivalent on 64bit and we would
have to build the entire kernel relocatable (-pie), resulting in a
large increase in kernel footprint (megabytes of relocation data).
The relocation data will be marked __initdata but it still creates
more pressure on our already tight memory layout at boot.

Alan Modra pointed out that the 64bit ABI is relocatable even
if we don't build with -pie, we just need to relocate the TOC.
This patch implements that idea and relocates the TOC entries of
prom_init.c. An added bonus is there are very few relocations to
process which helps keep boot times on simulators down.

gcc does not put 64bit integer constants into the TOC but to be
safe we may want a build time script which passes through the
prom_init.c TOC entries to make sure everything looks reasonable.

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

powerpc: Update Kconfig + Makefile to prepare for server doorbells

2013-01-10T04:09:08+00:00

Move the rule to build doorbell support out of the Makefile and into a
new Kconfig boolean that platforms can select.

We will add doorbell support to pseries as well in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie 
Tested-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: make POWER7 setup code name generic

2012-11-15T02:00:39+00:00

We are going to reuse this in POWER8 so make the name generic.

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

powerpc: Uprobes port to powerpc

2012-09-05T05:35:19+00:00

This is the port of uprobes to powerpc. Usage is similar to x86.

[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
Added new event:
  probe_libc:malloc    (on 0xb4860)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 20
[ perf record: Woken up 22 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 5.843 MB perf.data (~255302 samples) ]
[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf report --stdio
...

    69.05%           tar  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
    28.57%            rm  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     1.32%  avahi-daemon  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.58%          bash  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.28%          sshd  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.08%    irqbalance  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.05%         bzip2  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.04%         sleep  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.03%    multipathd  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.01%      sendmail  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.01%     automount  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc

The trap_nr addition patch is a prereq.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

KVM: PPC: Factor out guest epapr initialization

2012-05-30T09:43:10+00:00

epapr paravirtualization support is now a Kconfig
selectable option

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu 
[stuart.yoder@freescale.com: misc minor fixes, description update]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

powerpc: Use generic init_task

2012-05-05T11:00:25+00:00

Same code. Use the generic version.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.211123184@linutronix.de

powerpc/perf: Move perf core & PMU code into a subdirectory

2012-02-22T23:50:04+00:00

The perf code has grown a lot since it started, and is big enough to
warrant its own subdirectory. For reference it's ~60% bigger than the
oprofile code. It declutters the kernel directory, makes it simpler to
grep for "just perf stuff", and allows us to shorten some filenames.

While we're at it, make it more obvious that we have two implementations
of the core perf logic. One for (roughly) Book3S CPUs, which was the
original implementation, and the other for Freescale embedded CPUs.

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

fadump: Reserve the memory for firmware assisted dump.

2012-02-22T23:50:01+00:00

Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region
and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of
crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move
RMA region data to the reserved memory area.

If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback
to existing kexec-based kdump.

Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been
adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas
and Manish Ahuja

This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware
assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt