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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T02:15:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-02-12T02:15:38+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Update of all defconfigs

 - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs

 - Some PS3 updates from Geoff

 - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton

 - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen

 - Several cxl updates from Ian &amp; Ryan

 - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody &amp; Sukadev

 - Freescale updates from Scott:
    "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
     device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
     error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
  cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
  cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
  cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
  powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
  powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
  powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
  cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
  powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
  powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
  perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
  powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Update of all defconfigs

 - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs

 - Some PS3 updates from Geoff

 - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton

 - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen

 - Several cxl updates from Ian &amp; Ryan

 - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody &amp; Sukadev

 - Freescale updates from Scott:
    "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
     device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
     error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
  cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
  cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
  cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
  powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
  powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
  powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
  cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
  powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
  powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
  perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
  powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Fix another endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon</title>
<updated>2015-01-18T22:58:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Dufour</name>
<email>ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-15T17:23:47+00:00</published>
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The commit 3b8a3c010969 ("powerpc/pseries: Fix endiannes issue in RTAS
call from xmon") was fixing an endianness issue in the call made from
xmon to RTAS.

However, as Michael Ellerman noticed, this fix was not complete, the
token value was not byte swapped. This lead to call an unexpected and
most of the time unexisting RTAS function, which is silently ignored by
RTAS.

This fix addresses this hole.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The commit 3b8a3c010969 ("powerpc/pseries: Fix endiannes issue in RTAS
call from xmon") was fixing an endianness issue in the call made from
xmon to RTAS.

However, as Michael Ellerman noticed, this fix was not complete, the
token value was not byte swapped. This lead to call an unexpected and
most of the time unexisting RTAS function, which is silently ignored by
RTAS.

This fix addresses this hole.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: use isspace/isxdigit/isalnum from linux/ctype.h</title>
<updated>2014-12-29T04:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Bernat</name>
<email>vincent@bernat.im</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-15T11:43:47+00:00</published>
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isxdigit() macro definition is the same.

isalnum() from linux/ctype.h will accept additional latin non-ASCII
characters. This is harmless since this macro is used in scanhex() which
parses user input.

isspace() from linux/ctype.h will accept vertical tab and form feed but
not NULL. The use of this macro is modified to accept NULL as
well. Additional characters are harmless since this macro is also only
used in scanhex().

Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat &lt;vincent@bernat.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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isxdigit() macro definition is the same.

isalnum() from linux/ctype.h will accept additional latin non-ASCII
characters. This is harmless since this macro is used in scanhex() which
parses user input.

isspace() from linux/ctype.h will accept vertical tab and form feed but
not NULL. The use of this macro is modified to accept NULL as
well. Additional characters are harmless since this macro is also only
used in scanhex().

Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat &lt;vincent@bernat.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T01:48:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-12T01:48:14+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some nice cleanups like removing bootmem, and removal of
  __get_cpu_var().

  There is one patch to mm/gup.c.  This is the generic GUP
  implementation, but is only used by us and arm(64).  We have an ack
  from Steve Capper, and although we didn't get an ack from Andrew he
  told us to take the patch through the powerpc tree.

  There's one cxl patch.  This is in drivers/misc, but Greg said he was
  happy for us to manage fixes for it.

  There is an infrastructure patch to support an IPMI driver for OPAL.

  There is also an RTC driver for OPAL.  We weren't able to get any
  response from the RTC maintainer, Alessandro Zummo, so in the end we
  just merged the driver.

  The usual batch of Freescale updates from Scott"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (101 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Return to cpu offline loop when finished in KVM guest
  powerpc/book3s: Fix partial invalidation of TLBs in MCE code.
  powerpc/mm: don't do tlbie for updatepp request with NO HPTE fault
  powerpc/xmon: Cleanup the breakpoint flags
  powerpc/xmon: Enable HW instruction breakpoint on POWER8
  powerpc/mm/thp: Use tlbiel if possible
  powerpc/mm/thp: Remove code duplication
  powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Sanity check gigantic hugepage count
  powerpc/oprofile: Disable pagefaults during user stack read
  powerpc/mm: Check for matching hpte without taking hpte lock
  powerpc: Drop useless warning in eeh_init()
  powerpc/powernv: Cleanup unused MCE definitions/declarations.
  powerpc/eeh: Dump PHB diag-data early
  powerpc/eeh: Recover EEH error on ownership change for BCM5719
  powerpc/eeh: Set EEH_PE_RESET on PE reset
  powerpc/eeh: Refactor eeh_reset_pe()
  powerpc: Remove more traces of bootmem
  powerpc/pseries: Initialise nvram_pstore_info's buf_lock
  cxl: Name interrupts in /proc/interrupt
  cxl: Return error to PSL if IRQ demultiplexing fails &amp; print clearer warning
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some nice cleanups like removing bootmem, and removal of
  __get_cpu_var().

  There is one patch to mm/gup.c.  This is the generic GUP
  implementation, but is only used by us and arm(64).  We have an ack
  from Steve Capper, and although we didn't get an ack from Andrew he
  told us to take the patch through the powerpc tree.

  There's one cxl patch.  This is in drivers/misc, but Greg said he was
  happy for us to manage fixes for it.

  There is an infrastructure patch to support an IPMI driver for OPAL.

  There is also an RTC driver for OPAL.  We weren't able to get any
  response from the RTC maintainer, Alessandro Zummo, so in the end we
  just merged the driver.

  The usual batch of Freescale updates from Scott"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (101 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Return to cpu offline loop when finished in KVM guest
  powerpc/book3s: Fix partial invalidation of TLBs in MCE code.
  powerpc/mm: don't do tlbie for updatepp request with NO HPTE fault
  powerpc/xmon: Cleanup the breakpoint flags
  powerpc/xmon: Enable HW instruction breakpoint on POWER8
  powerpc/mm/thp: Use tlbiel if possible
  powerpc/mm/thp: Remove code duplication
  powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Sanity check gigantic hugepage count
  powerpc/oprofile: Disable pagefaults during user stack read
  powerpc/mm: Check for matching hpte without taking hpte lock
  powerpc: Drop useless warning in eeh_init()
  powerpc/powernv: Cleanup unused MCE definitions/declarations.
  powerpc/eeh: Dump PHB diag-data early
  powerpc/eeh: Recover EEH error on ownership change for BCM5719
  powerpc/eeh: Set EEH_PE_RESET on PE reset
  powerpc/eeh: Refactor eeh_reset_pe()
  powerpc: Remove more traces of bootmem
  powerpc/pseries: Initialise nvram_pstore_info's buf_lock
  cxl: Name interrupts in /proc/interrupt
  cxl: Return error to PSL if IRQ demultiplexing fails &amp; print clearer warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Cleanup the breakpoint flags</title>
<updated>2014-12-02T03:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-01T05:54:13+00:00</published>
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Drop BP_IABR_TE, which though used, does not do anything useful. Rename
BP_IABR to BP_CIABR. Renumber the flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Drop BP_IABR_TE, which though used, does not do anything useful. Rename
BP_IABR to BP_CIABR. Renumber the flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Enable HW instruction breakpoint on POWER8</title>
<updated>2014-12-02T03:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-28T04:36:42+00:00</published>
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This patch enables support for hardware instruction breakpoint in xmon
on POWER8 platform with the help of a new register called the CIABR
(Completed Instruction Address Breakpoint Register). With this patch, a
single hardware instruction breakpoint can be added and cleared during
any active xmon debug session. The hardware based instruction breakpoint
mechanism works correctly with the existing TRAP based instruction
breakpoint available on xmon.

There are no powerpc CPU with CPU_FTR_IABR feature any more. This patch
has re-purposed all the existing IABR related code to work with CIABR
register based HW instruction breakpoint.

This has one odd feature, which is that when we hit a breakpoint xmon
doesn't tell us we have hit the breakpoint. This is because xmon is
expecting bp-&gt;address == regs-&gt;nip. Because CIABR fires on completition
regs-&gt;nip points to the instruction after the breakpoint. We could fix
that, but it would then confuse other parts of the xmon code which think
we need to emulate the instruction. [mpe]

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This patch enables support for hardware instruction breakpoint in xmon
on POWER8 platform with the help of a new register called the CIABR
(Completed Instruction Address Breakpoint Register). With this patch, a
single hardware instruction breakpoint can be added and cleared during
any active xmon debug session. The hardware based instruction breakpoint
mechanism works correctly with the existing TRAP based instruction
breakpoint available on xmon.

There are no powerpc CPU with CPU_FTR_IABR feature any more. This patch
has re-purposed all the existing IABR related code to work with CIABR
register based HW instruction breakpoint.

This has one odd feature, which is that when we hit a breakpoint xmon
doesn't tell us we have hit the breakpoint. This is because xmon is
expecting bp-&gt;address == regs-&gt;nip. Because CIABR fires on completition
regs-&gt;nip points to the instruction after the breakpoint. We could fix
that, but it would then confuse other parts of the xmon code which think
we need to emulate the instruction. [mpe]

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Fix endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon</title>
<updated>2014-11-26T22:32:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Dufour</name>
<email>ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-24T14:07:53+00:00</published>
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On pseries system (LPAR) xmon failed to enter when running in LE mode,
system is hunging. Inititating xmon will lead to such an output on the
console:

SysRq : Entering xmon
cpu 0x15: Vector: 0  at [c0000003f39ffb10]
    pc: c00000000007ed7c: sysrq_handle_xmon+0x5c/0x70
    lr: c00000000007ed7c: sysrq_handle_xmon+0x5c/0x70
    sp: c0000003f39ffc70
   msr: 8000000000009033
  current = 0xc0000003fafa7180
  paca    = 0xc000000007d75e80	 softe: 0	 irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 14617, comm = bash
Bad kernel stack pointer fafb4b0 at eca7cc4
cpu 0x15: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000007f07d40]
    pc: 000000000eca7cc4
    lr: 000000000eca7c44
    sp: fafb4b0
   msr: 8000000000001000
   dar: 10000000
 dsisr: 42000000
  current = 0xc0000003fafa7180
  paca    = 0xc000000007d75e80	 softe: 0	 irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 14617, comm = bash
cpu 0x15: Exception 300 (Data Access) in xmon, returning to main loop
xmon: WARNING: bad recursive fault on cpu 0x15

The root cause is that xmon is calling RTAS to turn off the surveillance
when entering xmon, and RTAS is requiring big endian parameters.

This patch is byte swapping the RTAS arguments when running in LE mode.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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On pseries system (LPAR) xmon failed to enter when running in LE mode,
system is hunging. Inititating xmon will lead to such an output on the
console:

SysRq : Entering xmon
cpu 0x15: Vector: 0  at [c0000003f39ffb10]
    pc: c00000000007ed7c: sysrq_handle_xmon+0x5c/0x70
    lr: c00000000007ed7c: sysrq_handle_xmon+0x5c/0x70
    sp: c0000003f39ffc70
   msr: 8000000000009033
  current = 0xc0000003fafa7180
  paca    = 0xc000000007d75e80	 softe: 0	 irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 14617, comm = bash
Bad kernel stack pointer fafb4b0 at eca7cc4
cpu 0x15: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000007f07d40]
    pc: 000000000eca7cc4
    lr: 000000000eca7c44
    sp: fafb4b0
   msr: 8000000000001000
   dar: 10000000
 dsisr: 42000000
  current = 0xc0000003fafa7180
  paca    = 0xc000000007d75e80	 softe: 0	 irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 14617, comm = bash
cpu 0x15: Exception 300 (Data Access) in xmon, returning to main loop
xmon: WARNING: bad recursive fault on cpu 0x15

The root cause is that xmon is calling RTAS to turn off the surveillance
when entering xmon, and RTAS is requiring big endian parameters.

This patch is byte swapping the RTAS arguments when running in LE mode.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Fix build when 4xx=y and 44x=n</title>
<updated>2014-11-12T05:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-12T05:54:54+00:00</published>
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dump_tlb_44x() is only defined when 44x=y, but the ifdef in xmon.c
checks for 4xx, leading to a build failure:

  arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:912:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'dump_tlb_44x'

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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dump_tlb_44x() is only defined when 44x=y, but the ifdef in xmon.c
checks for 4xx, leading to a build failure:

  arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:912:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'dump_tlb_44x'

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Convert power off logic to pm_power_off</title>
<updated>2014-11-03T01:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>agraf@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T14:01:09+00:00</published>
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The generic Linux framework to power off the machine is a function pointer
called pm_power_off. The trick about this pointer is that device drivers can
potentially implement it rather than board files.

Today on powerpc we set pm_power_off to invoke our generic full machine power
off logic which then calls ppc_md.power_off to invoke machine specific power
off.

However, when we want to add a power off GPIO via the "gpio-poweroff" driver,
this card house falls apart. That driver only registers itself if pm_power_off
is NULL to ensure it doesn't override board specific logic. However, since we
always set pm_power_off to the generic power off logic (which will just not
power off the machine if no ppc_md.power_off call is implemented), we can't
implement power off via the generic GPIO power off driver.

To fix this up, let's get rid of the ppc_md.power_off logic and just always use
pm_power_off as was intended. Then individual drivers such as the GPIO power off
driver can implement power off logic via that function pointer.

With this patch set applied and a few patches on top of QEMU that implement a
power off GPIO on the virt e500 machine, I can successfully turn off my virtual
machine after halt.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
[mpe: Squash into one patch and update changelog based on cover letter]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The generic Linux framework to power off the machine is a function pointer
called pm_power_off. The trick about this pointer is that device drivers can
potentially implement it rather than board files.

Today on powerpc we set pm_power_off to invoke our generic full machine power
off logic which then calls ppc_md.power_off to invoke machine specific power
off.

However, when we want to add a power off GPIO via the "gpio-poweroff" driver,
this card house falls apart. That driver only registers itself if pm_power_off
is NULL to ensure it doesn't override board specific logic. However, since we
always set pm_power_off to the generic power off logic (which will just not
power off the machine if no ppc_md.power_off call is implemented), we can't
implement power off via the generic GPIO power off driver.

To fix this up, let's get rid of the ppc_md.power_off logic and just always use
pm_power_off as was intended. Then individual drivers such as the GPIO power off
driver can implement power off logic via that function pointer.

With this patch set applied and a few patches on top of QEMU that implement a
power off GPIO on the virt e500 machine, I can successfully turn off my virtual
machine after halt.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
[mpe: Squash into one patch and update changelog based on cover letter]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Hard disable interrupts in xmon</title>
<updated>2014-08-13T05:13:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2014-08-05T04:55:00+00:00</published>
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xmon only soft disables interrupts. This seems like a bad idea - we
certainly don't want decrementer and PMU exceptions going off when
we are debugging something inside xmon.

This issue was uncovered when the hard lockup detector went off
inside xmon. To ensure we wont get a spurious hard lockup warning,
I also call touch_nmi_watchdog() when exiting xmon.

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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xmon only soft disables interrupts. This seems like a bad idea - we
certainly don't want decrementer and PMU exceptions going off when
we are debugging something inside xmon.

This issue was uncovered when the hard lockup detector went off
inside xmon. To ensure we wont get a spurious hard lockup warning,
I also call touch_nmi_watchdog() when exiting xmon.

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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