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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S, branch v3.2.34</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/32: Pass device tree address as u64 to machine_init</title>
<updated>2011-09-19T23:19:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
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<published>2011-07-25T11:29:33+00:00</published>
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u64 is used rather than phys_addr_t to keep things simple, as
this is called from assembly code.

Update callers to pass a 64-bit address in r3/r4.  Other unused
register assignments that were once parameters to machine_init
are dropped.

For FSL BookE, look up the physical address of the device tree from the
effective address passed in r3 by the loader.  This is required for
situations where memory does not start at zero (due to AMP or IOMMU-less
virtualization), and thus the IMA doesn't start at zero, and thus the
device tree effective address does not equal the physical address.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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u64 is used rather than phys_addr_t to keep things simple, as
this is called from assembly code.

Update callers to pass a 64-bit address in r3/r4.  Other unused
register assignments that were once parameters to machine_init
are dropped.

For FSL BookE, look up the physical address of the device tree from the
effective address passed in r3 by the loader.  This is required for
situations where memory does not start at zero (due to AMP or IOMMU-less
virtualization), and thus the IMA doesn't start at zero, and thus the
device tree effective address does not equal the physical address.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove last piece of GEMINI</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T07:32:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Siewior</name>
<email>sebastian@breakpoint.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-16T08:58:13+00:00</published>
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It seems that Adrian is getting old. He removed almost everything of
GEMINI in commit c53653130 ("[POWERPC] Remove the broken Gemini
support") except this piece.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;sebastian@breakpoint.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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It seems that Adrian is getting old. He removed almost everything of
GEMINI in commit c53653130 ("[POWERPC] Remove the broken Gemini
support") except this piece.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;sebastian@breakpoint.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/smp: Make start_secondary_resume available to all CPU variants</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T03:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T03:07:12+00:00</published>
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This should fix SMP &amp; Hotplug builds on FSL BookE and 476

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This should fix SMP &amp; Hotplug builds on FSL BookE and 476

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/smp: soft-replugged CPUs must go back to start_secondary</title>
<updated>2011-04-01T04:37:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-10T07:45:24+00:00</published>
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Various thing are torn down when a CPU is hot-unplugged. That CPU
is expected to go back to start_secondary when re-plugged to re
initialize everything, such as clock sources, maps, ...

Some implementations just return from cpu_die() callback
in the idle loop when the CPU is "re-plugged". This is not enough.

We fix it using a little asm trampoline which resets the stack
and calls back into start_secondary as if we were all fresh from
boot. The trampoline already existed on ppc64, but we add it for
ppc32

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Various thing are torn down when a CPU is hot-unplugged. That CPU
is expected to go back to start_secondary when re-plugged to re
initialize everything, such as clock sources, maps, ...

Some implementations just return from cpu_die() callback
in the idle loop when the CPU is "re-plugged". This is not enough.

We fix it using a little asm trampoline which resets the stack
and calls back into start_secondary as if we were all fresh from
boot. The trampoline already existed on ppc64, but we add it for
ppc32

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Add KVM intercept handlers</title>
<updated>2010-05-17T09:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>agraf@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-15T22:11:57+00:00</published>
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When an interrupt occurs we don't know yet if we're in guest context or
in host context. When in guest context, KVM needs to handle it.

So let's pull the same trick we did on Book3S_64: Just add a macro to
determine if we're in guest context or not and if so jump on to KVM code.

CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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When an interrupt occurs we don't know yet if we're in guest context or
in host context. When in guest context, KVM needs to handle it.

So let's pull the same trick we did on Book3S_64: Just add a macro to
determine if we're in guest context or not and if so jump on to KVM code.

CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: gamecube/wii: early debugging using usbgecko</title>
<updated>2009-12-13T05:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Albert Herranz</name>
<email>albert_herranz@yahoo.es</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-12T06:31:51+00:00</published>
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Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter as an early debugging
console on the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles.
The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides
a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial converter.

Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz &lt;albert_herranz@yahoo.es&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter as an early debugging
console on the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles.
The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides
a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial converter.

Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz &lt;albert_herranz@yahoo.es&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)</title>
<updated>2009-08-20T00:12:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-14T20:52:54+00:00</published>
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The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in
low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu
global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer.

We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers
as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some
of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc..
and the current choice isn't always the best.

This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the
usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement
and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to
what those are used for on each processor family.

The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM
or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all
the SPRGs.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in
low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu
global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer.

We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers
as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some
of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc..
and the current choice isn't always the best.

This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the
usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement
and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to
what those are used for on each processor family.

The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM
or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all
the SPRGs.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Map more memory early on 601 processors</title>
<updated>2009-06-26T04:37:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-18T19:17:39+00:00</published>
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The 32-bit kernel relies on some memory being mapped covering
the kernel text,data and bss at least, early during boot before
the full MMU setup is done. On 32-bit "classic" processors, this
is done using BAT registers.

On 601, the size of BATs is limited to 8M and we use 2 of them
for that initial mapping. This can become quite tight when enabling
features like lockdep, so let's use a 3rd one to bump that mapping
from 16M to 24M. We keep the 4th BAT free as it can be useful for
debugging early boot code to map things like serial ports.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The 32-bit kernel relies on some memory being mapped covering
the kernel text,data and bss at least, early during boot before
the full MMU setup is done. On 32-bit "classic" processors, this
is done using BAT registers.

On 601, the size of BATs is limited to 8M and we use 2 of them
for that initial mapping. This can become quite tight when enabling
features like lockdep, so let's use a 3rd one to bump that mapping
from 16M to 24M. We keep the 4th BAT free as it can be useful for
debugging early boot code to map things like serial ports.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T06:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-12T06:46:47+00:00</published>
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The patch that moved to vector.S and made common between 32 and 64-bit the
altivec code had a nasty bug on 32-bit (did I really test that ?) which
causes the kernel to blr back into userspace ... oops :-)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The patch that moved to vector.S and made common between 32 and 64-bit the
altivec code had a nasty bug on 32-bit (did I really test that ?) which
causes the kernel to blr back into userspace ... oops :-)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Move VMX and VSX asm code to vector.S</title>
<updated>2009-06-09T06:46:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-02T21:17:37+00:00</published>
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Currently, load_up_altivec and give_up_altivec are duplicated
in 32-bit and 64-bit. This creates a common implementation that
is moved away from head_32.S, head_64.S and misc_64.S and into
vector.S, using the same macros we already use for our common
implementation of load_up_fpu.

I also moved the VSX code over to vector.S though in that case
I didn't make it build on 32-bit (yet).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Currently, load_up_altivec and give_up_altivec are duplicated
in 32-bit and 64-bit. This creates a common implementation that
is moved away from head_32.S, head_64.S and misc_64.S and into
vector.S, using the same macros we already use for our common
implementation of load_up_fpu.

I also moved the VSX code over to vector.S though in that case
I didn't make it build on 32-bit (yet).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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