Merge a pile of fixes that went into the "merge" branch (3.13-rc's) such
as Anton Little Endian fixes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

A kernel configured with PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX=y but PPC_PMAC=n and
PPC_MAPLE=n will fail to link:

  btext.c:(.text+0x2d0fc): undefined reference to `.rmci_off'
  btext.c:(.text+0x2d214): undefined reference to `.rmci_on'

Fix it by making the build of rmci_on/off() depend on
PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX, which also enable the only code that uses them.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

As Benjamin Herrenschmidt has indicated, we still need a dummy icbi to
purge all the prefetched instructions from the ifetch buffers for the
snooping icache. We also need a sync before the icbi to order the
actual stores to memory that might have modified instructions with
the icbi.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Nowadays, irq_exit() calls __do_softirq() pretty much directly
instead of calling do_softirq() which switches to the decicated
softirq stack.

This has lead to observed stack overflows on powerpc since we call
irq_enter() and irq_exit() outside of the scope that switches to
the irq stack.

This fixes it by moving the stack switching up a level, making
irq_enter() and irq_exit() run off the irq stack.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The only using of function disable_kernel_fp() was already dropped
in the commit 5daf9071 (powerpc: merge align.c).

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We have a bunch of CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_* options that are intended
for bringup/debug only. They hard wire a machine specific udbg backend
very early on (before we even probe the platform), and use whatever
tricks are available on each machine/cpu to be able to get some kind
of output out there early on.

So far, on powermac with no serial ports, we have CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX
to use the low-level btext engine on the screen, but it doesn't do much, at
least on 64-bit. It only really gets enabled after the platform has been
probed and the MMU enabled.

This adds a way to enable it much earlier. From prom_init.c (while still
running with Open Firmware), we grab the screen details and set things up
using the physical address of the frame buffer.

Then btext itself uses the "rm_ci" feature of the 970 processor (Real
Mode Cache Inhibited) to access it while in real mode.

We need to do a little bit of reorg of the btext code to inline things
better, in order to limit how much we touch memory while in this mode as
the consequences might be ... interesting.

This successfully allowed me to debug problems early on with the G5
(related to gold being broken vs. ppc64 kernels).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

And now the function flush_icache_range() is just a wrapper which
only invoke the function __flush_icache_range() directly. So we
don't have reason to keep it anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In function flush_icache_range(), we use cpu_has_feature() to test
the feature bit of CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE. But this seems not optimal
for two reasons:
 a) For ppc32, the function __flush_icache_range() already do this
    check with the macro END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET.
 b) Compare with the cpu_has_feature(), the method of using macro
    END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET will not introduce any runtime overhead.

[And while at it, add the missing required isync] -- BenH

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Some versions of GCC apparently expect this to be provided by libgcc.

Updates from Mikey to fix 32 bit version and adding "r" to registers.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

... and get rid of in-kernel syscalls in kernel_thread()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>