linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c, branch v3.5-rc2

powerpc/crypto: Enable the PFO-based encryption device

2012-05-16T05:05:46+00:00

This patch adds the cas bits to advertise support for the Platform
Facilities Option (PFO) based encryption accelerator device. The nx
device driver provides support for this hardware feature.

Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Enable the PFO-based RNG accelerator

2012-05-14T00:49:14+00:00

This patch adds the cas bits to advertise support for the Platform
Facilities Option (PFO) based random number generator accerator.
The pseries-rng driver provides support for this hardware feature.

Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings 
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Support lower minimum entitlement for virtual processors

2012-05-14T00:30:13+00:00

This patch changes the architecture vector to advertise support for a
lower minimum virtual processor entitled capacity.  The default
minimum without this patch is 10%, this patch specifies 1%.

Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

2012-03-28T22:58:21+00:00

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC

2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org

powerpc: Random little legacy iSeries removal tidy ups

2012-03-28T00:33:23+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/prom: Remove limit on maximum size of properties

2012-03-07T06:06:10+00:00

On a 16TB system (using AMS/CMO), I get:

WARNING: ignoring large property [/ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory] ibm,dynamic-memory length 0x000000000017ffec

and significantly less memory is thus shown to the partition. As far as
I can tell, the constant used is arbitrary. Ben Herrenschmidt provided
additional background that

> The limit was originally set because of Apple machines carrying ROM
> images in the device-tree, at a time where we were much more memory
> constrained than we are now.

and that it is likely not very useful any longer.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Rename mapping based RELOCATABLE to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART for BookE

2011-12-20T15:20:19+00:00

The current implementation of CONFIG_RELOCATABLE in BookE is based
on mapping the page aligned kernel load address to KERNELBASE. This
approach however is not enough for platforms, where the TLB page size
is large (e.g, 256M on 44x). So we are renaming the RELOCATABLE used
currently in BookE to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART to reflect the actual method.

The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for PPC32(BookE) based on processing of the
dynamic relocations will be introduced in the later in the patch series.

This change would allow the use of the old method of RELOCATABLE for
platforms which can afford to enforce the page alignment (platforms with
smaller TLB size).

Changes since v3:

* Introduced a new config, NONSTATIC_KERNEL, to denote a kernel which is
  either a RELOCATABLE or DYNAMIC_MEMSTART(Suggested by: Josh Boyer)

Suggested-by: Scott Wood 
Tested-by: Scott Wood 

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose 
Cc: Scott Wood 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: linux ppc dev 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

powerpc: Fix old bug in prom_init setting of the color

2011-12-19T03:41:25+00:00

We have an array of 16 entries and a loop of 32 iterations... oops.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Only use initrd_end as the limit for alloc_bottom if it's inside the RMO.

2011-12-19T03:41:24+00:00

As the kernels and initrd's get bigger boot-loaders and possibly
kexec-tools will need to place the initrd outside the RMO.  When this
happens we end up with no lowmem and the boot doesn't get very far.

Only use initrd_end as the limit for alloc_bottom if it's inside the
RMO.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt