I had to debug a strange situation where all manner of things were failing. SMT threads, storage and network were all completely broken. The root cause was we couldn't find enough memory to instantiate RTAS - this was a network install so the initrd was huge. Instead of limping along and failing in mysterious ways we should just panic up front if RTAS exists and we can't allocate space for it. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The firmware on old 970 blades supports some kind of takeover called "TNK takeover" which will crash if we try to probe for OPAL takeover, so don't do it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
OPAL v2 is instantiated in a way similar to RTAS using Open Firmware client interface calls, and the resulting address and entry point are put in the device-tree Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We stash it in boot_command_line which isn't in BSS and so won't be overwritten. We then use that as a default cmd_line before we walk the device-tree. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On machines supporting the OPAL firmware version 1, the system is initially booted under pHyp. We then use a special hypercall to verify if OPAL is available and if it is, we then trigger a "takeover" which disables pHyp and loads the OPAL runtime firmware, giving control to the kernel in hypervisor mode. This patch add the necessary code to detect that the OPAL takeover capability is present when running under PowerVM (aka pHyp) and perform said takeover to get hypervisor control of the processor. To perform the takeover, we must first use RTAS (within Open Firmware runtime environment) to start all processors & threads, in order to give control to OPAL on all of them. We then call the takeover hypercall on everybody, OPAL will re-enter the kernel main entry point passing it a flat device-tree. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add a newline to the panic messages in make_room. Also fix a comment that suggested our chunk size is 4Mb. It's 1MB. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I have a box that fails in OF during boot with: DEFAULT CATCH!, exception-handler=fff00400 at %SRR0: 49424d2c4c6f6768 %SRR1: 800000004000b002 ie "IBM,Logh". OF got corrupted with a device tree string. Looking at make_room and alloc_up, we claim the first chunk (1 MB) but we never claim any more. mem_end is always set to alloc_top which is the top of our available address space, guaranteeing we will never call alloc_up and claim more memory. Also alloc_up wasn't setting alloc_bottom to the bottom of the available address space. This doesn't help the box to boot, but we at least fail with an obvious error. We could relocate the device tree in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Adds support for page coalescing, which is a feature on IBM Power servers which allows for coalescing identical pages between logical partitions. Hint text pages as coalesce candidates, since they are the most likely pages to be able to be coalesced between partitions. This patch also exports some page coalescing statistics available from firmware via lparcfg. [BenH: Moved a couple of things around to fix compile problems] Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Adds the ability to print decimal numbers and adds some more format string variants Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently we look pretty stupid when printing out a bunch of things in prom_init.c. eg. Max number of cores passed to firmware: 0x0000000000000080 So I've change this to print in decimal: Max number of cores passed to firmware: 128 (NR_CPUS = 256) This required adding a prom_print_dec() function and changing some prom_printk() calls from %x to %lu. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>