linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c, branch v4.8

powerpc/fadump: Fix build error introduced by recent cleanup

2016-07-05T13:49:46+00:00

We spent so much time bike-shedding the printk() we missed that the next
line was missing a semi-colon. And it seems none of our defconfigs turn
on CONFIG_FA_DUMP.

Fixes: 4a03749f140c ("powerpc/fadump: Trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/fadump: Trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message

2016-06-28T03:50:47+00:00

Fix trivial spelling mistake "rgistration". Also use pr_err()
instead of printk() and unsplit the string to keep it all on one
line.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King 
[mpe: Keep rc on the same line, splitting it doesn't help]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/fadump: rename cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header

2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00

The four cpumasks cpu_{possible,online,present,active}_bits are exposed
readonly via the corresponding const variables cpu_xyz_mask.  But they are
also accessible for arbitrary writing via the exposed functions
set_cpu_xyz.  There's quite a bit of code throughout the kernel which
iterates over or otherwise accesses these bitmaps, and having the access
go via the cpu_xyz_mask variables is nowadays [1] simply a useless
indirection.

It may be that any problem in CS can be solved by an extra level of
indirection, but that doesn't mean every extra indirection solves a
problem.  In this case, it even necessitates some minor ugliness (see
4/6).

Patch 1/6 is new in v2, and fixes a build failure on ppc by renaming a
struct member, to avoid problems when the identifier cpu_online_mask
becomes a macro later in the series.  The next four patches eliminate the
cpu_xyz_mask variables by simply exposing the actual bitmaps, after
renaming them to discourage direct access - that still happens through
cpu_xyz_mask, which are now simply macros with the same type and value as
they used to have.

After that, there's no longer any reason to have the setter functions be
out-of-line: The boolean parameter is almost always a literal true or
false, so by making them static inlines they will usually compile to one
or two instructions.

For a defconfig build on x86_64, bloat-o-meter says we save ~3000 bytes.
We also save a little stack (stackdelta says 127 functions have a 16 byte
smaller stack frame, while two grow by that amount).  Mostly because, when
iterating over the mask, gcc typically loads the value of cpu_xyz_mask
into a callee-saved register and from there into %rdi before each
find_next_bit call - now it can just load the appropriate immediate
address into %rdi before each call.

[1] See Rusty's kind explanation
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2047078/focus=2047722 for
some historic context.

This patch (of 6):

As preparation for eliminating the indirect access to the various global
cpu_*_bits bitmaps via the pointer variables cpu_*_mask, rename the
cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header to simply
online_mask, thus allowing cpu_online_mask to become a macro.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/fadump: Fix endianess issues in firmware assisted dump handling

2014-10-30T05:52:46+00:00

Firmware-assisted dump (fadump) kernel code is not endian safe. The
below patch fixes this issue. Tested this patch with upstream kernel.
Below output shows crash tool successfully opening LE fadump vmcore.

    # crash vmlinux vmcore
    GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
    This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"...

          KERNEL: vmlinux
        DUMPFILE: vmcore
    	CPUS: 16
    	DATE: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
          UPTIME: 00:03:28
    LOAD AVERAGE: 0.46, 0.86, 0.41
           TASKS: 268
        NODENAME: linux-dhr2
         RELEASE: 3.17.0-rc5-7-default
         VERSION: #6 SMP Tue Sep 30 01:06:34 EDT 2014
         MACHINE: ppc64le  (4116 Mhz)
          MEMORY: 40 GB
           PANIC: "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" (check log for details)
    	 PID: 6223
         COMMAND: "bash"
    	TASK: c0000009661b2500  [THREAD_INFO: c000000967ac0000]
    	 CPU: 2
           STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
[mpe: Make the comment in pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear() clearer]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

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

2014-06-11T01:54:22+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window.  It got
  a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
  because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
  ack in it.  Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
  probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.

  There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
  still want to sort through and test.

  The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
  with our new v2 ABI.  We previously supported v2 userspace but the
  kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack.  This is now sorted mostly
  thanks to Anton and Rusty.

  We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
  64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper.  This was made harder by the fact that
  traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
  toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
  but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it.  This
  meant more churn that just endian fixes.

  This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
  LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
  right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
  right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.

  There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
  *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).

  Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
  P8 by Michael.  This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
  4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
  (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).

  And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."

[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
  Google knows.  ]

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
  selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
  powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
  powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
  powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
  powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
  powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
  powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
  powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
  powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
  powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
  powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
  powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
  powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
  powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
  powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
  powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
  arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
  ...

arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks

2014-05-28T03:35:39+00:00

Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks.
There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

of/fdt: update of_get_flat_dt_prop in prep for libfdt

2014-04-30T05:59:15+00:00

Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop
call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return
value const and the property length ptr type an int.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Tested-by: Grant Likely 
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers

powerpc/prom: Stop scanning dev-tree for fdump early

2014-04-28T07:35:18+00:00

Function early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump() is called to scan the device
tree for fdump properties under node "rtas". Any one of them is
invalid, we can stop scanning the device tree early by returning
"1". It would save a bit time during boot.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

mm/ppc: use common help functions to free reserved pages

2013-04-29T22:54:30+00:00

Use common help functions to free reserved pages.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc: Change memory_limit from phys_addr_t to unsigned long long

2012-09-07T01:44:30+00:00

There are some device-tree nodes, whose values are of type phys_addr_t.
The phys_addr_t is variable sized based on the CONFIG_PHSY_T_64BIT.

Change these to a fixed unsigned long long for consistency.

This patch does the change only for memory_limit.

The following is a list of such variables which need the change:

 1) kernel_end, crashk_size - in arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c

 2) (struct resource *)crashk_res.start - We could export a local static
    variable from machine_kexec.c.

Changing the above values might break the kexec-tools. So, I will
fix kexec-tools first to handle the different sized values and then change
 the above.

Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt