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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c, branch v3.9.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove no longer used ppc_md.idle_loop()</title>
<updated>2012-11-15T02:00:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-24T17:21:09+00:00</published>
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The last user of ppc_md.idle_loop() was removed when we dropped the
legacy iSeries code, in commit 8ee3e0d.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The last user of ppc_md.idle_loop() was removed when we dropped the
legacy iSeries code, in commit 8ee3e0d.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove unused cpu_idle_wait()</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T10:35:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-07T17:59:50+00:00</published>
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cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
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cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix broken cpu_idle_wait() implementation</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T10:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-07T17:59:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9cd75e13de2dcf32ecc21c7f277cff3c0ced059e'/>
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commit 771dae818 (powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow
switching of idle routines) implemented cpu_idle_wait() for powerpc.

The changelog says:
 "The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
  but the powerpc implementation is different.":

Unfortunately the changelog is completely useless as it does not tell
_WHY_ it is different.

Aside of being different the implementation is patently wrong.

The rescheduling IPI is async. That means that there is no guarantee,
that the other cores have executed the IPI when cpu_idle_wait()
returns. But that's the whole purpose of this function: to guarantee
that no CPU uses the old idle handler anymore.

Use the smp_functional_call() based implementation, which fulfils the
requirements.

[ This code is going to replaced by a core version to remove all the
  pointless copies in arch/*, but this one should go to stable ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Trinabh Gupta &lt;g.trinabh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arun R Bharadwaj &lt;arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175651.980164748@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<pre>
commit 771dae818 (powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow
switching of idle routines) implemented cpu_idle_wait() for powerpc.

The changelog says:
 "The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
  but the powerpc implementation is different.":

Unfortunately the changelog is completely useless as it does not tell
_WHY_ it is different.

Aside of being different the implementation is patently wrong.

The rescheduling IPI is async. That means that there is no guarantee,
that the other cores have executed the IPI when cpu_idle_wait()
returns. But that's the whole purpose of this function: to guarantee
that no CPU uses the old idle handler anymore.

Use the smp_functional_call() based implementation, which fulfils the
requirements.

[ This code is going to replaced by a core version to remove all the
  pointless copies in arch/*, but this one should go to stable ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Trinabh Gupta &lt;g.trinabh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arun R Bharadwaj &lt;arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175651.980164748@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ae3a197e3d0bfe3f4bf1693723e82dc018c096f3'/>
<id>ae3a197e3d0bfe3f4bf1693723e82dc018c096f3</id>
<content type='text'>
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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<pre>
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T01:55:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T01:55:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5375871d432ae9fc581014ac117b96aaee3cd0c7'/>
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Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window.  It is going to be a
  bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
  arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
  rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
  maintain and that nobody really used anymore.

  Here are some of the highlights:

   - Legacy iSeries is gone.  Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
     and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
     they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
     hopefully.

   - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
     previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"...  it's a rewrite of a
     mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
     new implementation hopefully being much more reliable.  Thanks
     Mahesh Salgaonkar.

   - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling &amp; recovery) got a big
     spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
     new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.

     The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
     there.  Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
     not very nice and which Grant objects to.  I will have a patch soon
     that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
     before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
     getting rid of the need for that pointer completely).  Thanks Gavin
     Shan.

   - I dug into our exception &amp; interrupt handling code to improve the
     way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
     "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found &amp; fixed
     a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
     fault retry &amp; fatal signals on page faults.

   - Your usual random batch of small fixes &amp; updates, including a bunch
     of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."

I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits)
  powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
  powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
  powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
  init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
  powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
  tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
  powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
  powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
  powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
  powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
  powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
  Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
  powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
  powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
  powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
  powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
  powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
  ...
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Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window.  It is going to be a
  bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
  arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
  rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
  maintain and that nobody really used anymore.

  Here are some of the highlights:

   - Legacy iSeries is gone.  Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
     and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
     they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
     hopefully.

   - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
     previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"...  it's a rewrite of a
     mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
     new implementation hopefully being much more reliable.  Thanks
     Mahesh Salgaonkar.

   - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling &amp; recovery) got a big
     spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
     new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.

     The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
     there.  Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
     not very nice and which Grant objects to.  I will have a patch soon
     that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
     before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
     getting rid of the need for that pointer completely).  Thanks Gavin
     Shan.

   - I dug into our exception &amp; interrupt handling code to improve the
     way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
     "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found &amp; fixed
     a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
     fault retry &amp; fatal signals on page faults.

   - Your usual random batch of small fixes &amp; updates, including a bunch
     of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."

I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits)
  powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
  powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
  powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
  init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
  powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
  tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
  powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
  powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
  powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
  powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
  powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
  Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
  powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
  powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
  powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
  powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
  powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Rework lazy-interrupt handling</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T02:25:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-06T07:27:59+00:00</published>
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The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
issues that this tries to address.

We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
interrupts.

The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
"edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.

Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.

This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.

The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
"irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
occurred while soft-disabled.

When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
field.

We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
arch_local_irq_enable case).

This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
fake interrupts, among others.

In addition, this adds a few refinements:

 - We no longer  hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
(on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
performance monitor interrupts.

 - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
perf sample quality.

 - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)

 - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.

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

v2:

- Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
- Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
- Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
- Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
  to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable

v3:

 - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
 - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E

v4:

 - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E

v5:

 - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
rework of some aspects of the patch.

v6:
 - 32-bit compile fix
 - more compile fixes with various .config combos
 - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
 - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq

v7:
 - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
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<pre>
The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
issues that this tries to address.

We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
interrupts.

The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
"edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.

Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.

This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.

The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
"irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
occurred while soft-disabled.

When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
field.

We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
arch_local_irq_enable case).

This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
fake interrupts, among others.

In addition, this adds a few refinements:

 - We no longer  hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
(on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
performance monitor interrupts.

 - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
perf sample quality.

 - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)

 - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.

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

v2:

- Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
- Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
- Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
- Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
  to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable

v3:

 - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
 - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E

v4:

 - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E

v5:

 - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
rework of some aspects of the patch.

v6:
 - 32-bit compile fix
 - more compile fixes with various .config combos
 - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
 - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq

v7:
 - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T09:28:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-21T12:32:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ba74c1448f127649046615ec017bded7b2a76f29'/>
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<content type='text'>
Create a distinction between scheduler related preempt_enable_no_resched()
calls and the nearly one hundred other places in the kernel that do not
want to reschedule, for one reason or another.

This distinction matters for -rt, where the scheduler and the non-scheduler
preempt models (and checks) are different. For upstream it's purely
documentational.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gs88fvx2mdv5psnzxnv575ke@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Create a distinction between scheduler related preempt_enable_no_resched()
calls and the nearly one hundred other places in the kernel that do not
want to reschedule, for one reason or another.

This distinction matters for -rt, where the scheduler and the non-scheduler
preempt models (and checks) are different. For upstream it's purely
documentational.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gs88fvx2mdv5psnzxnv575ke@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T09:28:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-21T11:33:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=bd2f55361f18347e890d52ff9cfd8895455ec11b'/>
<id>bd2f55361f18347e890d52ff9cfd8895455ec11b</id>
<content type='text'>
Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Fix RCU idle and hcall tracing</title>
<updated>2012-01-11T00:54:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2012-01-09T14:29:15+00:00</published>
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Tracepoints should not be called inside an rcu_idle_enter/rcu_idle_exit
region. Since pSeries calls H_CEDE in the idle loop, we were violating
this rule.

commit a7b152d5342c (powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracing)
tried to work around it by delaying the rcu_idle_enter until after we
called the hcall tracepoint, but there are a number of issues with it.

The hcall tracepoint trampoline code is called conditionally when the
tracepoint is enabled. If the tracepoint is not enabled we never call
rcu_idle_enter. The idle_uses_rcu check was also done at compile time
which breaks multiplatform builds.

The simple fix is to avoid tracing H_CEDE and rely on other tracepoints
and the hypervisor dispatch trace log to work out if we called H_CEDE.

This fixes a hang during boot on pSeries.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Tracepoints should not be called inside an rcu_idle_enter/rcu_idle_exit
region. Since pSeries calls H_CEDE in the idle loop, we were violating
this rule.

commit a7b152d5342c (powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracing)
tried to work around it by delaying the rcu_idle_enter until after we
called the hcall tracepoint, but there are a number of issues with it.

The hcall tracepoint trampoline code is called conditionally when the
tracepoint is enabled. If the tracepoint is not enabled we never call
rcu_idle_enter. The idle_uses_rcu check was also done at compile time
which breaks multiplatform builds.

The simple fix is to avoid tracing H_CEDE and rely on other tracepoints
and the hypervisor dispatch trace log to work out if we called H_CEDE.

This fixes a hang during boot on pSeries.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2012-01-07T01:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-07T01:58:22+00:00</published>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (185 commits)
  powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1010rdb.c
  powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1023_rds.c
  powerpc/fsl: add MSI support for the Freescale hypervisor
  arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rmu.c: introduce missing kfree
  powerpc/fsl: Add support for Integrated Flash Controller
  powerpc/fsl: update compatiable on fsl 16550 uart nodes
  powerpc/85xx: fix PCI and localbus properties in p1022ds.dts
  powerpc/85xx: re-enable ePAPR byte channel driver in corenet32_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/fsl: Update defconfigs to enable some standard FSL HW features
  powerpc: Add TBI PHY node to first MDIO bus
  sbc834x: put full compat string in board match check
  powerpc/fsl-pci: Allow 64-bit PCIe devices to DMA to any memory address
  powerpc: Fix unpaired probe_hcall_entry and probe_hcall_exit
  offb: Fix setting of the pseudo-palette for &gt;8bpp
  offb: Add palette hack for qemu "standard vga" framebuffer
  offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size
  powerpc/boot: Change the WARN to INFO for boot wrapper overlap message
  powerpc/44x: Fix build error on currituck platform
  powerpc/boot: Change the load address for the wrapper to fit the kernel
  powerpc/44x: Enable CRASH_DUMP for 440x
  ...

Fix up a trivial conflict in arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h due to
the additional sparse-checking code for cputime_t.
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (185 commits)
  powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1010rdb.c
  powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1023_rds.c
  powerpc/fsl: add MSI support for the Freescale hypervisor
  arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rmu.c: introduce missing kfree
  powerpc/fsl: Add support for Integrated Flash Controller
  powerpc/fsl: update compatiable on fsl 16550 uart nodes
  powerpc/85xx: fix PCI and localbus properties in p1022ds.dts
  powerpc/85xx: re-enable ePAPR byte channel driver in corenet32_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/fsl: Update defconfigs to enable some standard FSL HW features
  powerpc: Add TBI PHY node to first MDIO bus
  sbc834x: put full compat string in board match check
  powerpc/fsl-pci: Allow 64-bit PCIe devices to DMA to any memory address
  powerpc: Fix unpaired probe_hcall_entry and probe_hcall_exit
  offb: Fix setting of the pseudo-palette for &gt;8bpp
  offb: Add palette hack for qemu "standard vga" framebuffer
  offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size
  powerpc/boot: Change the WARN to INFO for boot wrapper overlap message
  powerpc/44x: Fix build error on currituck platform
  powerpc/boot: Change the load address for the wrapper to fit the kernel
  powerpc/44x: Enable CRASH_DUMP for 440x
  ...

Fix up a trivial conflict in arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h due to
the additional sparse-checking code for cputime_t.
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