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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc: Enable the Watchdog vector for 405</title>
<updated>2013-01-10T03:43:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com</email>
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<published>2012-10-05T08:07:15+00:00</published>
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The watchdog and FIT code has been #if 0'd for ever, if the CPU takes
an exception to either of those vectors it will jump into the middle
of the PIT or Data TLB code and surely crash.

At least some (all?) 405 cores have both the WDT and FIT
vectors defined, so lets have proper entry points for them.

Tested that the WDT vector works on a 405F6 core.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The watchdog and FIT code has been #if 0'd for ever, if the CPU takes
an exception to either of those vectors it will jump into the middle
of the PIT or Data TLB code and surely crash.

At least some (all?) 405 cores have both the WDT and FIT
vectors defined, so lets have proper entry points for them.

Tested that the WDT vector works on a 405F6 core.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Call do_page_fault() with interrupts off</title>
<updated>2012-03-08T23:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-07T05:48:45+00:00</published>
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We currently turn interrupts back to their previous state before
calling do_page_fault(). This can be annoying when debugging as
a bad fault will potentially have lost some processor state before
getting into the debugger.

We also end up calling some generic code with interrupts enabled
such as notify_page_fault() with interrupts enabled, which could
be unexpected.

This changes our code to behave more like other architectures,
and make the assembly entry code call into do_page_faults() with
interrupts disabled. They are conditionally re-enabled from
within do_page_fault() in the same spot x86 does it.

While there, add the might_sleep() test in the case of a successful
trylock of the mmap semaphore, again like x86.

Also fix a bug in the existing assembly where r12 (_MSR) could get
clobbered by C calls (the DTL accounting in the exception common
macro and DISABLE_INTS) in some cases.

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

v2. Add the r12 clobber fix
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We currently turn interrupts back to their previous state before
calling do_page_fault(). This can be annoying when debugging as
a bad fault will potentially have lost some processor state before
getting into the debugger.

We also end up calling some generic code with interrupts enabled
such as notify_page_fault() with interrupts enabled, which could
be unexpected.

This changes our code to behave more like other architectures,
and make the assembly entry code call into do_page_faults() with
interrupts disabled. They are conditionally re-enabled from
within do_page_fault() in the same spot x86 does it.

While there, add the might_sleep() test in the case of a successful
trylock of the mmap semaphore, again like x86.

Also fix a bug in the existing assembly where r12 (_MSR) could get
clobbered by C calls (the DTL accounting in the exception common
macro and DISABLE_INTS) in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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v2. Add the r12 clobber fix
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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>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove second definition of STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD</title>
<updated>2010-11-29T04:48:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
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<published>2010-11-18T15:06:17+00:00</published>
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Since STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD is defined in asm/ptrace.h and that
is ASSEMBER safe, we can just include that instead of going via
asm-offsets.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Since STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD is defined in asm/ptrace.h and that
is ASSEMBER safe, we can just include that instead of going via
asm-offsets.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memblock: Remove rmo_size, burry it in arch/powerpc where it belongs</title>
<updated>2010-08-05T02:56:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-06T22:39:02+00:00</published>
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The RMA (RMO is a misnomer) is a concept specific to ppc64 (in fact
server ppc64 though I hijack it on embedded ppc64 for similar purposes)
and represents the area of memory that can be accessed in real mode
(aka with MMU off), or on embedded, from the exception vectors (which
is bolted in the TLB) which pretty much boils down to the same thing.

We take that out of the generic MEMBLOCK data structure and move it into
arch/powerpc where it belongs, renaming it to "RMA" while at it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The RMA (RMO is a misnomer) is a concept specific to ppc64 (in fact
server ppc64 though I hijack it on embedded ppc64 for similar purposes)
and represents the area of memory that can be accessed in real mode
(aka with MMU off), or on embedded, from the exception vectors (which
is bolted in the TLB) which pretty much boils down to the same thing.

We take that out of the generic MEMBLOCK data structure and move it into
arch/powerpc where it belongs, renaming it to "RMA" while at it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<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: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.</title>
<updated>2009-04-26T16:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-26T02:11:05+00:00</published>
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This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>[POWERPC] 40x/Book-E: Save/restore volatile exception registers</title>
<updated>2008-06-02T19:56:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T10:23:21+00:00</published>
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On machines with more than one exception level any system register that
might be modified by the "normal" exception level needs to be saved and
restored on taking a higher level exception.  We already are saving
and restoring ESR and DEAR.

For critical level add SRR0/1.
For debug level add CSRR0/1 and SRR0/1.
For machine check level add DSRR0/1, CSRR0/1, and SRR0/1.

On FSL Book-E parts we always save/restore the MAS registers for critical,
debug, and machine check level exceptions.  On 44x we always save/restore
the MMUCR.

Additionally, we save and restore the ksp_limit since we have to adjust it
for each exception level.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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On machines with more than one exception level any system register that
might be modified by the "normal" exception level needs to be saved and
restored on taking a higher level exception.  We already are saving
and restoring ESR and DEAR.

For critical level add SRR0/1.
For debug level add CSRR0/1 and SRR0/1.
For machine check level add DSRR0/1, CSRR0/1, and SRR0/1.

On FSL Book-E parts we always save/restore the MAS registers for critical,
debug, and machine check level exceptions.  On 44x we always save/restore
the MMUCR.

Additionally, we save and restore the ksp_limit since we have to adjust it
for each exception level.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>[POWERPC] Move to runtime allocated exception stacks</title>
<updated>2008-06-02T19:54:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T08:49:55+00:00</published>
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For the additonal exception levels (critical, debug, machine check) on
40x/book-e we were using "static" allocations of the stack in the
associated head.S.

Move to a runtime allocation to make the code a bit easier to read as
we mimic how we handle IRQ stacks.  Its also a bit easier to setup the
stack with a "dummy" thread_info in C code.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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For the additonal exception levels (critical, debug, machine check) on
40x/book-e we were using "static" allocations of the stack in the
associated head.S.

Move to a runtime allocation to make the code a bit easier to read as
we mimic how we handle IRQ stacks.  Its also a bit easier to setup the
stack with a "dummy" thread_info in C code.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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