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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics, branch v3.3.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/xics: Reset the CPPR if H_EOI fails</title>
<updated>2011-12-08T03:02:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-30T00:23:15+00:00</published>
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I have an intermittent kdump fail where the hypervisor fails an H_EOI.
As a result our CPPR is never reset to 0xff and we no longer accept
interrupts.

This patch calls icp_hv_set_cppr to reset the CPPR if H_EOI fails,
fixing the kdump fail.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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I have an intermittent kdump fail where the hypervisor fails an H_EOI.
As a result our CPPR is never reset to 0xff and we no longer accept
interrupts.

This patch calls icp_hv_set_cppr to reset the CPPR if H_EOI fails,
fixing the kdump fail.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/xics: Harden xics hypervisor backend</title>
<updated>2011-11-28T00:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-24T19:39:36+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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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 &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Mark IPI interrupts IRQF_NO_THREAD</title>
<updated>2011-11-25T03:14:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-05T02:30:50+00:00</published>
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IPI handlers cannot be threaded. Remove the obsolete IRQF_DISABLED
flag (see commit e58aa3d2) while at it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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IPI handlers cannot be threaded. Remove the obsolete IRQF_DISABLED
flag (see commit e58aa3d2) while at it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED</title>
<updated>2011-11-08T03:51:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yong Zhang</name>
<email>yong.zhang0@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-21T23:56:27+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;yong.zhang0@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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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 &lt;yong.zhang0@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL ICS backend</title>
<updated>2011-09-20T06:09:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-19T17:45:02+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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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 &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/xics: Add __init to marker icp_native_init()</title>
<updated>2011-09-19T23:20:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaud Lacombe</name>
<email>lacombar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-25T06:07:13+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe &lt;lacombar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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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 &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe &lt;lacombar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2011-07-25T20:56:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-25T20:56:39+00:00</published>
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* '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' -&gt; `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -&gt; squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm =&gt; 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 -&gt; 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)
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* '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' -&gt; `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -&gt; squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm =&gt; 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 -&gt; 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)
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:23:08+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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 &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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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-&gt;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 &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Convert uses of struct resource to resource_size(ptr)</title>
<updated>2011-06-10T12:55:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-09T16:13:32+00:00</published>
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Several fixes as well where the +1 was missing.

Done via coccinelle scripts like:

@@
struct resource *ptr;
@@

- ptr-&gt;end - ptr-&gt;start + 1
+ resource_size(ptr)

and some grep and typing.

Mostly uncompiled, no cross-compilers.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Several fixes as well where the +1 was missing.

Done via coccinelle scripts like:

@@
struct resource *ptr;
@@

- ptr-&gt;end - ptr-&gt;start + 1
+ resource_size(ptr)

and some grep and typing.

Mostly uncompiled, no cross-compilers.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add virq_is_host to reduce virq_to_host usage</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T05:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-10T19:30:36+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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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 &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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