linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/mm, branch v2.6.32.9

powerpc/mm: Remove debug context clamping from nohash code

2009-11-05T05:41:59+00:00

I inadvertently left that debug code enabled, causing the number of
contexts to be clamped to 31 which is going to slow things down on
4xx and just plain breaks 8xx

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/mm: Fix hang accessing top of vmalloc space

2009-10-14T05:58:36+00:00

On pSeries, we always force the IO space to be mapped using 4K
pages even with a 64K base page size to cope with some limitations
in the HV interface to some devices.

However, the SLB miss handler code to discriminate between vmalloc
and ioremap space uses a CPU feature section such that the code
is nop'ed out when the processor support large pages non-cachable
mappings.

Thus, we end up always using the ioremap page size for vmalloc
segments on such processors, causing a discrepency between the
segment and the hash table, and thus a hang continously hashing
the page.

It works for the first segment of the vmalloc space since that
segment is "bolted" in by C code correctly, and thankfully we
almost never use the vmalloc space beyond the first segment,
but the new percpu code made the bug happen.

This fixes it by removing the feature section from the assembly,
we now always do the comparison between vmalloc and ioremap.

Signed-off-by; Benjamin Herrenschmidt 

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite

2009-09-24T05:56:30+00:00

After upgrading to the latest kernel on my mpc875 userspace started
running incredibly slow (hours to get to a shell, even!).
I tracked it down to commit 8d30c14cab30d405a05f2aaceda1e9ad57800f36,
that patch removed a work-around for the 8xx. Adding it
back makes my problem go away.

Signed-off-by: Rex Feany 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/mm: Remove duplicated #include

2009-09-24T05:31:42+00:00

Remove duplicated #include('s) in
  arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

kcore: use registerd physmem information

2009-09-23T14:39:41+00:00

For /proc/kcore, each arch registers its memory range by kclist_add().
In usual,

	- range of physical memory
	- range of vmalloc area
	- text, etc...

are registered but "range of physical memory" has some troubles.  It
doesn't updated at memory hotplug and it tend to include unnecessary
memory holes.  Now, /proc/iomem (kernel/resource.c) includes required
physical memory range information and it's properly updated at memory
hotplug.  Then, it's good to avoid using its own code(duplicating
information) and to rebuild kclist for physical memory based on
/proc/iomem.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

walk system ram range

2009-09-23T14:39:41+00:00

Originally, walk_memory_resource() was introduced to traverse all memory
of "System RAM" for detecting memory hotplug/unplug range.  For doing so,
flags of IORESOUCE_MEM|IORESOURCE_BUSY was used and this was enough for
memory hotplug.

But for using other purpose, /proc/kcore, this may includes some firmware
area marked as IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOUCE_MEM.  This patch makes the
check strict to find out busy "System RAM".

Note: PPC64 keeps their own walk_memory_resouce(), which walk through
ppc64's lmb informaton.  Because old kclist_add() is called per lmb, this
patch makes no difference in behavior, finally.

And this patch removes CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG check from this function.
Because pfn_valid() just show "there is memmap or not* and cannot be used
for "there is physical memory or not", this function is useful in generic
to scan physical memory range.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Cc: Américo Wang 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Roland Dreier 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kcore: register vmalloc area in generic way

2009-09-23T14:39:41+00:00

For /proc/kcore, vmalloc areas are registered per arch.  But, all of them
registers same range of [VMALLOC_START...VMALLOC_END) This patch unifies
them.  By this.  archs which have no kclist_add() hooks can see vmalloc
area correctly.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kcore: add kclist types

2009-09-23T14:39:41+00:00

Presently, kclist_add() only eats start address and size as its arguments.
Considering to make kclist dynamically reconfigulable, it's necessary to
know which kclists are for System RAM and which are not.

This patch add kclist types as
  KCORE_RAM
  KCORE_VMALLOC
  KCORE_TEXT
  KCORE_OTHER

This "type" is used in a patch following this for detecting KCORE_RAM.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arches: drop superfluous casts in nr_free_pages() callers

2009-09-22T14:17:34+00:00

Commit 96177299416dbccb73b54e6b344260154a445375 ("Drop free_pages()")
modified nr_free_pages() to return 'unsigned long' instead of 'unsigned
int'.  This made the casts to 'unsigned long' in most callers superfluous,
so remove them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Howells 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

2009-09-21T12:28:04+00:00

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar