linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v2.6.19.2

[POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Add powerpc get/set_rtc_time interface to new generic rtc class"

2006-11-22T01:13:36+00:00

This reverts commit 7a69af63e788a324d162201a0b23df41bcf158dd.

As advised by David Brownell:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116387226902131&w=2

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] pseries: Force 4k update_flash block and list sizes

2006-11-10T10:35:36+00:00

The enablement of 64k pages on pseries platforms exposed a bug in
the RTAS mechanism for updating firmware.  RTAS assumes 4k for flash
block and list sizes, and use of any other sizes results in a failure,
even though PAPR does not specify any such requirement.

This patch changes the rtas_flash module to force the use of 4k memory
block and list sizes when preparing and sending a firmware image to
RTAS.  The rtas_flash function now uses a slab cache of 4k blocks with
4k alignment, rather than get_zeroed_page(), to allocate the memory for
the flash blocks and lists.  The 4k alignment requirement is specified
in PAPR.

Signed-off-by: John Rose 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Eliminate "exceeds stub group size" linker warning

2006-11-01T22:56:59+00:00

It turns out that the linker warnings on 64-bit powerpc about "section
blah exceeds stub group size" were being triggered by conditional
branches in head_64.S branching to global symbols, whether in
head_64.S or in other files.  This eliminates the warnings by making
some global symbols in head_64.S no longer global, and by rearranging
some branches.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
[ Yee-haa. Maybe I'll notice newly introduced real warnings now - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Make alignment exception always check exception table

2006-11-01T04:16:04+00:00

The alignment exception used to only check the exception table for
-EFAULT, not for other errors. That opens an oops window if we can
coerce the kernel into getting an alignment exception for other reasons
in what would normally be a user-protected accessor, which can be done
via some of the futex ops. This fixes it by always checking the
exception tables.

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

[POWERPC] Use 4kB iommu pages even on 64kB-page systems

2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00

The 10Gigabit ethernet device drivers appear to be able to chew
up all 256MB of TCE mappings on pSeries systems, as evidenced by
numerous error messages:

 iommu_alloc failed, tbl c0000000010d5c48 vaddr c0000000d875eff0 npages 1

Some experimentation indicates that this is essentially because
one 1500 byte ethernet MTU gets mapped as a 64K DMA region when
the large 64K pages are enabled. Thus, it doesn't take much to
exhaust all of the available DMA mappings for a high-speed card.

This patch changes the iommu allocator to work with its own
unique, distinct page size. Although the patch is long, its
actually quite simple: it just #defines a distinct IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE
and then uses this in all the places that matter.

As a side effect, it also dramatically improves network performance
on platforms with H-calls on iommu translation inserts/removes (since
we no longer call it 16 times for a 1500 bytes packet when the iommu HW
is still 4k).

In the future, we might want to make the IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE a variable
in the iommu_table instance, thus allowing support for different HW
page sizes in the iommu itself.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix oprofile support for e500 in arch/powerpc

2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00

Fixed a compile error in building the 85xx support with oprofile, and in
the process cleaned up some issues with the fsl_booke performance monitor
code.

* Reorganized FSL Book-E performance monitoring code so that the 7450
  wouldn't be built if the e500 was, and cleaned it up so it was more
  self-contained.

* Added a cpu_setup function for FSL Book-E.  The original
  cpu_setup function prototype had no arguments, assuming that
  the reg_setup function would copy the required information into
  variables which represented the registers.  This was silly for
  e500, since it has 1 register per counter (rather than 3 for
  all counters), so the code has been restructured to have
  cpu_setup take the current counter config array as an argument,
  with op_powerpc_setup() invoking op_powerpc_cpu_setup() through
  on_each_cpu(), and op_powerpc_cpu_setup() invoking the
  model-specific cpu_setup function with an argument.  The
  argument is ignored on all other platforms at present.

* Fixed a confusing line where a trinary operator only had two
  arguments

Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix various offb issues

2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00

This patch fixes a few issues in offb:

 - A test was inverted causing the palette hack to never work
(no device node was passed down to the init function)

 - Some cards seem to have their assigned-addresses property in a random
order, thus we need to try using of_get_pci_address() first, which will
fail if it's not a PCI device, and fallback to of_get_address() in that
case. of_get_pci_address() properly parsees assigned-addresses to test
the BAR number and thus will get it right whatever the order is.

 - Some cards (like GXT4500) provide a linebytes of 0xffffffff in the
device-tree which does no good. This patch handles that by using the
screen width when that happens. (Also fixes btext.c while at it).

 - Add detection of the GXT4500 in addition to the GXT2000 for the
palette hacks (we use the same hack, palette is linear in register space
at offset 0x6000).

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

[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections

2006-10-27T22:34:51+00:00

Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table,
teach all the architectures to use it.

This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for
multithreaded-probing.

Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Make sure __cpu_preinit_ppc970 gets called on 970GX processors

2006-10-25T23:20:07+00:00

Add check for 970GX for __cpu_preinit_ppc970.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix device_is_compatible() const warning

2006-10-25T01:54:24+00:00

Fix a const'ification related warning with device_is_compatible()
and friends related to get_property() not properly having const
on it's input device node argument.

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