linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics, branch v3.2.54

powerpc: Make sure IPI handlers see data written by IPI senders

2012-09-19T14:04:42+00:00

commit 9fb1b36ca1234e64a5d1cc573175303395e3354d upstream.

We have been observing hangs, both of KVM guest vcpu tasks and more
generally, where a process that is woken doesn't properly wake up and
continue to run, but instead sticks in TASK_WAKING state.  This
happens because the update of rq->wake_list in ttwu_queue_remote()
is not ordered with the update of ipi_message in
smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass(), and the reading of rq->wake_list in
scheduler_ipi() is not ordered with the reading of ipi_message in
smp_ipi_demux().  Thus it is possible for the IPI receiver not to see
the updated rq->wake_list and therefore conclude that there is nothing
for it to do.

In order to make sure that anything done before smp_send_reschedule()
is ordered before anything done in the resulting call to scheduler_ipi(),
this adds barriers in smp_muxed_message_pass() and smp_ipi_demux().
The barrier in smp_muxed_message_pass() is a full barrier to ensure that
there is a full ordering between the smp_send_reschedule() caller and
scheduler_ipi().  In smp_ipi_demux(), we use xchg() rather than
xchg_local() because xchg() includes release and acquire barriers.
Using xchg() rather than xchg_local() makes sense given that
ipi_message is not just accessed locally.

This moves the barrier between setting the message and calling the
cause_ipi() function into the individual cause_ipi implementations.
Most of them -- those that used outb, out_8 or similar -- already had
a full barrier because out_8 etc. include a sync before the MMIO
store.  This adds an explicit barrier in the two remaining cases.

These changes made no measurable difference to the speed of IPIs as
measured using a simple ping-pong latency test across two CPUs on
different cores of a POWER7 machine.

The analysis of the reason why processes were not waking up properly
is due to Milton Miller.

Reported-by: Milton Miller 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/xics: Harden xics hypervisor backend

2012-09-19T14:04:42+00:00

commit 3ce21cdfe93efffa4ffba9cf3ca2576d3d60d6dc upstream.

During kdump stress testing I sometimes see the kdump kernel panic
with:

  Interrupt 0x306 (real) is invalid, disabling it.
  Kernel panic - not syncing: bad return code EOI - rc = -4, value=ff000306

Instead of panicing print the error message, dump the stack the first
time it happens and continue on. Add some more information to the
debug messages as well.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

powerpc/irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED

2011-11-08T03:51:46+00:00

Since commit [e58aa3d2: genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled],
We run all interrupt handlers with interrupts disabled
and we even check and yell when an interrupt handler
returns with interrupts enabled (see commit [b738a50a:
genirq: Warn when handler enables interrupts]).

So now this flag is a NOOP and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Geoff Levand 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL ICS backend

2011-09-20T06:09:59+00:00

OPAL handles HW access to the various ICS or equivalent chips
for us (with the exception of p5ioc2 based HEA which uses a

different backend) similarily to what RTAS does on pSeries.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/xics: Add __init to marker icp_native_init()

2011-09-19T23:20:02+00:00

This should fix the following warning:

 LD      arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/built-in.o
WARNING: arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/built-in.o(.text+0x1310): Section mismatch in
reference from the function .icp_native_init() to the function
.init.text:.icp_native_init_one_node()
The function .icp_native_init() references
the function __init .icp_native_init_one_node().
This is often because .icp_native_init lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of .icp_native_init_one_node is wrong.

icp_native_init() is only referenced in `arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/xics-common.c'
by xics_init() which is itself marked with __init.

= not built-tested =

Reported-by: Timur Tabi 
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2011-07-25T20:56:39+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)

KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes

2011-07-12T10:16:57+00:00

This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one
hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads
per core on POWER7.  The host still has to run single-threaded.

This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT
capability.  The return value of the ioctl querying this capability
is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4.

To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads
active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined.
This will put the secondary threads into nap mode.  KVM will then
wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while
they are still offline).  To wake the secondary threads, we send
them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in
arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c.  In other words, at this stage
we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and
we are using icp-native.c to drive it.  Since the woken thread will
need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base
physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys()
for use in the low-level KVM book3s code.

When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core.
The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the
number of threads per core in the host.  This number is exported
to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability.  If qemu wishes
to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu
numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core.

We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute
the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host.  We currently
implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads
are runnable or blocked.  This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere
in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU
by the other vcpus.

When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the
vcpu threads.  The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep
until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu,
or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu
thread goes from busy in host state to blocked).

It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g.
because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already
running.  In that case it can start to run immediately as long as
the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest.
We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start
to execute the guest.  It synchronizes with the other threads via
the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go
into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it
is ready to actually enter the guest.

Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread
number and the vcpu number.  Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus
as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered
hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all
the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are
runnable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

treewide: Convert uses of struct resource to resource_size(ptr)

2011-06-10T12:55:36+00:00

Several fixes as well where the +1 was missing.

Done via coccinelle scripts like:

@@
struct resource *ptr;
@@

- ptr->end - ptr->start + 1
+ resource_size(ptr)

and some grep and typing.

Mostly uncompiled, no cross-compilers.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

powerpc: Add virq_is_host to reduce virq_to_host usage

2011-05-19T05:31:59+00:00

Some irq_host implementations are using virq_to_host to check if
they are the irq_host for a virtual irq.  To allow us to make space
versus time tradeoffs, replace this usage with an assertive
virq_is_host that confirms or denies the irq is associated with the
given irq_host.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/xics: Cleanup xics_host_map and ipi

2011-05-19T05:31:33+00:00

Since we already have a special case in map to set the ipi handler, use
the desired flow.

If we don't find an ics to handle the interrupt complain instead of
returning 0 without having set a chip or handler.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt