This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this behaviour to userspace. Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active transaction fails. This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality as syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that the transaction be explicitly suspended. It also provides a consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390). Performance measurements using http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%. Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc. - More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes. - Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan Fontenot. - Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao. - Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz. - A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping nodes_possible_map. - Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini. - Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson. - Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was flashing your firmware when it wasn't. - Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver. - Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan Stancek. - Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler. - A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman. - Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by Bjorn. - A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater. - Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman. - Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather than per machine. - Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it. - Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu. - Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard. - Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs. - Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again. - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup. * tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits) powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs() powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64 powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message ... Conflicts: tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
There's a new variant of POWER8 coming called "POWER8 with NVLink". The core is identical to POWER8 but unfortunately they strapped it with a different PVR, so we need to add an explicit entry for it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The flush_tlb hook in cpu_spec was introduced as a generic function hook to invalidate TLBs. But the current implementation of flush_tlb hook takes IS (invalidation selector) as an argument which is architecture dependent. Hence, It is not right to have a generic routine where caller has to pass non-generic argument. This patch fixes this and makes flush_tlb hook as high level API. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <eha@deif.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
SPE exception handlers are now defined for 32-bit e500mc cores even though SPE unit is not present and CONFIG_SPE is undefined. Restrict SPE exception handlers to e200/e500 cores adding CONFIG_SPE_POSSIBLE and consequently guard __stup_ivors and __setup_cpu functions. Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com> Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We have a strange #define in cputable.h called CLASSIC_PPC. Although it is defined for 32 & 64bit, it's only used for 32bit and it's basically a duplicate of CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32, so let's use the latter. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We inadvertently broke power3 support back in 3.4 with commit f5339277eb8d "powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code". No one noticed until at least 3.9. By then we'd also broken it with the optimised memcpy, copy_to/from_user and clear_user routines. We don't want to add any more complexity to those just to support ancient cpus, so it seems like it's a good time to drop support for power3 and earlier. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
These processors do not currently support doorbell IPIs, so remove them from the feature list if we are at DD 1.xx for the 0x004d part. This fixes a regression caused by d4e58e5928f8 (powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs). With that patch the kernel would hang at boot when calling smp_call_function_many, as the doorbell would not be received by the target CPUs: .smp_call_function_many+0x2bc/0x3c0 (unreliable) .on_each_cpu_mask+0x30/0x100 .cpuidle_register_driver+0x158/0x1a0 .cpuidle_register+0x2c/0x110 .powernv_processor_idle_init+0x23c/0x2c0 .do_one_initcall+0xd4/0x260 .kernel_init_freeable+0x25c/0x33c .kernel_init+0x1c/0x120 .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x58/0x7c Fixes: d4e58e5928f8 (powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs) Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
__attribute__ ((unused)) WSP is the last user of CONFIG_PPC_A2, so we remove that as well. Although CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX still exists, it's no longer selectable for any Book3E platform, so we can remove the code in mmu-book3e.h that depended on it. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>