linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v2.6.25.18

Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO

2008-08-06T17:11:03+00:00

commit e4cc58944c1e2ce41e3079d4eb60c95e7ce04b2b upstream

Current versions of gdb require a working implementation of
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO for proper watchpoint support.  Since struct siginfo
contains pointers it must be converted when passed to a 32-bit debugger.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Add missing reference to coherent_dma_mask

2008-07-24T16:14:10+00:00

commit ba0fc709e197415aadd46b9ec208dc4abaa21edd upstream

There is dma_mask in of_device upon of_platform_device_create()
but we don't actually set coherent_dma_mask. This may cause weird
behavior of USB subsystem using of_device USB host drivers.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP

2008-06-24T21:08:29+00:00

commit 89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f upstream

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit
557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed
the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will
generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly.

We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but
since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages,
we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead.

In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core
file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not
been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating
all those useless newly zeroed pages.

This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the
same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly.

While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the
caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply
could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it)
and a page that just wasn't mapped.

We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not
be turned into a "struct page *".  The error is arbitrarily picked to be
EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the
equivalent IO-mapped page case.

[ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing:
  that's not how that function works ]

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

POWERPC Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpus

2008-06-09T18:26:58+00:00

This is upstream as commit 3b5750644b2ffa2a76fdfe7b4e00e4af2ecf3539.

This fixes a regression reported by Kamalesh Bulabel where a POWER4
machine would crash because of an SLB miss at a point where the SLB
miss exception was unrecoverable.  This regression is tracked at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10082

SLB misses at such points shouldn't happen because the kernel stack is
the only memory accessed other than things in the first segment of the
linear mapping (which is mapped at all times by entry 0 of the SLB).
The context switch code ensures that SLB entry 2 covers the kernel
stack, if it is not already covered by entry 0.  None of entries 0
to 2 are ever replaced by the SLB miss handler.

Where this went wrong is that the context switch code assumes it
doesn't have to write to SLB entry 2 if the new kernel stack is in the
same segment as the old kernel stack, since entry 2 should already be
correct.  However, when we start up a secondary cpu, it calls
slb_initialize, which doesn't set up entry 2.  This is correct for
the boot cpu, where we will be using a stack in the kernel BSS at this
point (i.e. init_thread_union), but not necessarily for secondary
cpus, whose initial stack can be allocated anywhere.  This doesn't
cause any immediate problem since the SLB miss handler will just
create an SLB entry somewhere else to cover the initial stack.

In fact it's possible for the cpu to go quite a long time without SLB
entry 2 being valid.  Eventually, though, the entry created by the SLB
miss handler will get overwritten by some other entry, and if the next
access to the stack is at an unrecoverable point, we get the crash.

This fixes the problem by making slb_initialize create a suitable
entry for the kernel stack, if we are on a secondary cpu and the stack
isn't covered by SLB entry 0.  This requires initializing the
get_paca()->kstack field earlier, so I do that in smp_create_idle
where the current field is initialized.  This also abstracts a bit of
the computation that mk_esid_data in slb.c does so that it can be used
in slb_initialize.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[POWERPC] Fix rtas_flash procfs interface

2008-04-03T11:11:11+00:00

Handling of the proc_dir_entry->count was changed in 2.6.24-rc5.
After this change, the default value for pde->count is 1 and not 0 as
before.  Therefore, if we want to check whether our procfs file is
already opened (already in use), we have to check if pde->count is
greater than 2 rather than 1.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Shchetynin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix iSeries hard irq enabling regression

2008-04-03T11:10:34+00:00

A subtle bug sneaked into iSeries recently.  On this platform, we must
not normally clear MSR:EE (the hardware external interrupt enable)
except for short periods of time.  Taking an interrupt while
soft-disabled doesn't cause us to clear it for example.

The iSeries kernel expects to mostly run with MSR:EE enabled at all
times except in a few exception entry/exit code paths.  Thus
local_irq_enable() doesn't check if it needs to hard-enable as it
expects this to be unnecessary on iSeries.

However, hard_irq_disable() _does_ cause MSR:EE to be cleared,
including on iSeries.  A call to it was recently added to the
context switch code, thus causing interrupts to become disabled
for a long periods of time, causing the iSeries watchdog to kick
in under some circumstances and other nasty things.

This patch fixes it by making local_irq_enable() properly re-enable
MSR:EE on iSeries.  It basically removes a return statement here
to make iSeries use the same code path as everybody else.  That does
mean that we might occasionally get spurious decrementer interrupts
but I don't think that matters.

Another option would have been to make hard_irq_disable() a nop
on iSeries but I didn't like it much, in case we have good reasons
to hard-disable.

Part of the patch is fixes to make sure the hard_enabled PACA field
is properly set on iSeries as it used not to be before, since it
was mostly unused.

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

[POWERPC] Fix missed hardware breakpoints across multiple threads

2008-03-28T11:51:02+00:00

There is a bug in the powerpc DABR (data access breakpoint) handling,
which can result in us missing breakpoints if several threads are trying
to break on the same address.

The circumstances are that do_page_fault() calls do_dabr(), this clears
the DABR (sets it to 0) and sets up the signal which will report to
userspace that the DABR was hit. The do_signal() code will restore the DABR
value on the way out to userspace.

If we reschedule before calling do_signal(), __switch_to() will check the
cached DABR value and compare it to the new thread's value, if they match
we don't set the DABR in hardware.

So if two threads have the same DABR value, and we schedule from one to
the other after taking the interrupt for the first thread hitting the DABR,
the second thread will run without the DABR set in hardware.

The cleanest fix is to move the cache update into set_dabr(), that way we
can't forget to do it.

Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix PMU + soft interrupt disable bug

2008-03-19T23:14:55+00:00

Since the PMU is an NMI now, it can come at any time we are only soft
disabled.  We must hard disable around the two places we allow the kernel
stack SLB and r1 to go out of sync.  Otherwise the PMU exception can
force a kernel stack SLB into another slot, which can lead to it
getting evicted, which can lead to a nasty unrecoverable SLB miss
in the exception entry code.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] user_regset PTRACE_SETREGS regression fix

2008-03-19T23:10:56+00:00

The PTRACE_SETREGS request was only recently added on powerpc,
and gdb does not use it.  So it slipped through without getting
all the testing it should have had.

The user_regset changes had a simple bug in storing to all of
the 32-bit general registers block on 64-bit kernels.  This bug
only comes up with PTRACE_SETREGS, not PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS.
It causes a BUG_ON to hit, so this fix needs to go in ASAP.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Export empty_zero_page

2008-03-12T23:09:28+00:00

Once again, this time with feeling....

						- Ted

>From c91cfaabc17f8a53807a2f31f067a732e34a1550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o 
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:50:39 -0400
Subject: Export empty_zero_page

The empty_zero_page symbol is exported by most other architectures
(s390, ia64, x86, um), and an upcoming ext4 patch needs it because
ZERO_PAGE() references empty_zero_page, and we need it to zero out an
unitialized extents in ext4 files.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras