linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c, branch v2.6.25.12

Fix compilation of powerpc asm-offsets.c with old gcc

2008-02-07T22:54:45+00:00

Commit ad7f71674ad7c3c4467e48f6ab9e85516dae2720 ("[POWERPC] Use a
sensible default for clock_getres() in the VDSO") corrected the clock
resolution reported by the VDSO clock_getres() but introduced another
problem in that older versions of gcc (gcc-4.0 and earlier) fail to
compile the new code in arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c.

This fixes it by introducing a new MONOTONIC_RES_NSEC define in the
generic code which is equivalent to KTIME_MONOTONIC_RES but is just an
integer constant, not a ktime union.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Use a sensible default for clock_getres() in the VDSO

2008-02-06T05:30:00+00:00

This ensures that the syscall and the (fast) vdso versions of
clock_getres() will return the same resolution.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix swapper_pg_dir size when CONFIG_PTE_64BIT=y on FSL_BOOKE

2007-12-06T19:11:04+00:00

The size of swapper_pg_dir is 8k instead of 4k when using 64-bit PTEs
(CONFIG_PTE_64BIT).

This was reported by Cedric Hombourger 

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

[POWERPC] vdso: Fixes for cache block sizes

2007-11-20T02:56:31+00:00

The current VDSO implementation is hardcoded to 128 byte cache blocks,
which are only used on IBM's 64-bit processors.

Convert it to get the cache block sizes out of vdso_data instead,
similar to how the ppc64 in-kernel cache flush does it.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: add scaled time accounting

2007-10-18T21:37:28+00:00

This adds POWERPC specific hooks for scaled time accounting.

POWER6 includes a SPURR register.  The SPURR is based off the PURR register
but is scaled based on CPU frequency and issue rates.  This gives a more
accurate account of the instructions used per task.  The PURR and timebase
will be constant relative to the wall clock, irrespective of the CPU
frequency.

This implementation reads the SPURR register in account_system_vtime which
is only call called on context witch and hard and soft irq entry and exit.
The percentage of user and system time is then estimated using the ratio of
these accounted by the PURR.  If the SPURR is not present, the PURR read.

An earlier implementation of this patch read the SPURR whenever the PURR
was read, which included the system call entry and exit path.
Unfortunately this showed a performance regression on lmbench runs, so was
re-implemented.

I've included the lmbench results here when run bare metal on POWER6.  1st
column is the unpatch results.  2nd column is the results using the below
patch and the 3rd is the % diff of these results from the base.  4th and
5th columns are the results and % differnce from the base using the older
patch (SPURR read in syscall entry/exit path).

                              Base        Scaled-Acct     SPURR-in-syscall
                             Result      Result  % diff    Result % diff
Simple syscall:              0.3086      0.3086  0.0000    0.3452 11.8600
Simple read:                 0.4591      0.4671  1.7425    0.5044 9.86713
Simple write:                0.4364      0.4366  0.0458    0.4731 8.40971
Simple stat:                 2.0055      2.0295  1.1967    2.0669 3.06158
Simple fstat:                0.5962      0.5876  -1.442    0.6368 6.80979
Simple open/close:           3.1283      3.1009  -0.875    3.2088 2.57328
Select on 10 fd's:           0.8554      0.8457  -1.133    0.8667 1.32101
Select on 100 fd's:          3.5292      3.6329  2.9383    3.6664 3.88756
Select on 250 fd's:          7.9097      8.1881  3.5197    8.2242 3.97613
Select on 500 fd's:          15.2659     15.836  3.7357    15.873 3.97814
Select on 10 tcp fd's:       0.9576      0.9416  -1.670    0.9752 1.83792
Select on 100 tcp fd's:      7.248       7.2254  -0.311    7.2685 0.28283
Select on 250 tcp fd's:      17.7742     17.707  -0.375    17.749 -0.1406
Select on 500 tcp fd's:      35.4258     35.25   -0.496    35.286 -0.3929
Signal handler installation: 0.6131      0.6075  -0.913    0.647  5.52927
Signal handler overhead:     2.0919      2.1078  0.7600    2.1831 4.35967
Protection fault:            0.7345      0.7478  1.8107    0.8031 9.33968
Pipe latency:                33.006      16.398  -50.31    33.475 1.42368
AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 14.5093     30.910  113.03    30.715 111.692
Process fork+exit:           219.8       222.8   1.3648    229.37 4.35623
Process fork+execve:         876.14      873.28  -0.32     868.66 -0.8533
Process fork+/bin/sh -c:     2830        2876.5  1.6431    2958   4.52296
File /var/tmp/XXX write bw:  1193497     1195536 0.1708    118657 -0.5799
Pagefaults on /var/tmp/XXX:  3.1272      3.2117  2.7020    3.2521 3.99398

Also, kernel compile times show no difference with this patch applied.

[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Avoid unnecessary PURR reading]
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Size swapper_pg_dir correctly

2007-09-19T05:25:34+00:00

David Gibson pointed out that swapper_pg_dir actually need to be
PGD_TABLE_SIZE bytes long not PAGE_SIZE.  This actually saves 64k in
the bss for a kernel ppc64_defconfig built with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] iSeries: Clean up lparmap mess

2007-08-22T05:21:46+00:00

We need to have xLparMap in head_64.S so that it is at a fixed address
(because the linker will not resolve (address & 0xffffffff) for us).
But the assembler miscalculates the KERNEL_VSID() expressions.  So put
the confusing expressions into asm-offsets.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2007-05-09T19:56:01+00:00

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Further fixes for the removal of 4level-fixup hack from ppc32
  [POWERPC] EEH: log all PCI-X and PCI-E AER registers
  [POWERPC] EEH: capture and log pci state on error
  [POWERPC] EEH: Split up long error msg
  [POWERPC] EEH: log error only after driver notification.
  [POWERPC] fsl_soc: Make mac_addr const in fs_enet_of_init().
  [POWERPC] Don't use SLAB/SLUB for PTE pages
  [POWERPC] Spufs support for 64K LS mappings on 4K kernels
  [POWERPC] Add ability to 4K kernel to hash in 64K pages
  [POWERPC] Introduce address space "slices"
  [POWERPC] Small fixes & cleanups in segment page size demotion
  [POWERPC] iSeries: Make HVC_ISERIES the default
  [POWERPC] iSeries: suppress build warning in lparmap.c
  [POWERPC] Mark pages that don't exist as nosave
  [POWERPC] swsusp: Introduce register_nosave_region_late

rename thread_info to stack

2007-05-09T19:30:56+00:00

This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, so that
the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more freedom about
placing the thread_info structure.

Nonbroken archs which have a proper thread pointer can do the access to both
current thread and task structure via a single pointer.

It'll allow for a few more cleanups of the fork code, from which e.g.  ia64
could benefit.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel 
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ian Molton 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Richard Curnow 
Cc: William Lee Irwin III 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Miles Bader 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Introduce address space "slices"

2007-05-09T06:35:00+00:00

The basic issue is to be able to do what hugetlbfs does but with
different page sizes for some other special filesystems; more
specifically, my need is:

 - Huge pages

 - SPE local store mappings using 64K pages on a 4K base page size
kernel on Cell

 - Some special 4K segments in 64K-page kernels for mapping a dodgy
type of powerpc-specific infiniband hardware that requires 4K MMU
mappings for various reasons I won't explain here.

The main issues are:

 - To maintain/keep track of the page size per "segment" (as we can
only have one page size per segment on powerpc, which are 256MB
divisions of the address space).

 - To make sure special mappings stay within their allotted
"segments" (including MAP_FIXED crap)

 - To make sure everybody else doesn't mmap/brk/grow_stack into a
"segment" that is used for a special mapping

Some of the necessary mechanisms to handle that were present in the
hugetlbfs code, but mostly in ways not suitable for anything else.

The patch relies on some changes to the generic get_unmapped_area()
that just got merged.  It still hijacks hugetlb callbacks here or
there as the generic code hasn't been entirely cleaned up yet but
that shouldn't be a problem.

So what is a slice ?  Well, I re-used the mechanism used formerly by our
hugetlbfs implementation which divides the address space in
"meta-segments" which I called "slices".  The division is done using
256MB slices below 4G, and 1T slices above.  Thus the address space is
divided currently into 16 "low" slices and 16 "high" slices.  (Special
case: high slice 0 is the area between 4G and 1T).

Doing so simplifies significantly the tracking of segments and avoids
having to keep track of all the 256MB segments in the address space.

While I used the "concepts" of hugetlbfs, I mostly re-implemented
everything in a more generic way and "ported" hugetlbfs to it.

Slices can have an associated page size, which is encoded in the mmu
context and used by the SLB miss handler to set the segment sizes.  The
hash code currently doesn't care, it has a specific check for hugepages,
though I might add a mechanism to provide per-slice hash mapping
functions in the future.

The slice code provide a pair of "generic" get_unmapped_area() (bottomup
and topdown) functions that should work with any slice size.  There is
some trickiness here so I would appreciate people to have a look at the
implementation of these and let me know if I got something wrong.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras