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<title>sparc64: Setup sysfs to mark LDOM sockets, cores and threads correctly</title>
<updated>2015-04-22T19:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>chris hyser</name>
<email>chris.hyser@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-22T16:28:31+00:00</published>
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commit 5f4826a362405748bbf73957027b77993e61e1af
Author: chris hyser &lt;chris.hyser@oracle.com&gt;
Date:   Tue Apr 21 10:31:38 2015 -0400

    sparc64: Setup sysfs to mark LDOM sockets, cores and threads correctly

    The current sparc kernel has no representation for sockets though tools
    like lscpu can pull this from sysfs. This patch walks the machine
    description cache and socket hierarchy and marks sockets as well as cores
    and threads such that a representative sysfs is created by
    drivers/base/topology.c.

    Before this patch:
        $ lscpu
        Architecture:          sparc64
        CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
        Byte Order:            Big Endian
        CPU(s):                1024
        On-line CPU(s) list:   0-1023
        Thread(s) per core:    8
        Core(s) per socket:    1     &lt;--- wrong
        Socket(s):             128   &lt;--- wrong
        NUMA node(s):          4
        NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-255
        NUMA node1 CPU(s):     256-511
        NUMA node2 CPU(s):     512-767
        NUMA node3 CPU(s):     768-1023

        After this patch:
        $ lscpu
        Architecture:          sparc64
        CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
        Byte Order:            Big Endian
        CPU(s):                1024
        On-line CPU(s) list:   0-1023
        Thread(s) per core:    8
        Core(s) per socket:    32
        Socket(s):             4
        NUMA node(s):          4
        NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-255
        NUMA node1 CPU(s):     256-511
        NUMA node2 CPU(s):     512-767
        NUMA node3 CPU(s):     768-1023

    Most of this patch was done by Chris with updates by David.

    Signed-off-by: Chris Hyser &lt;chris.hyser@oracle.com&gt;
    Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;david.ahern@oracle.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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commit 5f4826a362405748bbf73957027b77993e61e1af
Author: chris hyser &lt;chris.hyser@oracle.com&gt;
Date:   Tue Apr 21 10:31:38 2015 -0400

    sparc64: Setup sysfs to mark LDOM sockets, cores and threads correctly

    The current sparc kernel has no representation for sockets though tools
    like lscpu can pull this from sysfs. This patch walks the machine
    description cache and socket hierarchy and marks sockets as well as cores
    and threads such that a representative sysfs is created by
    drivers/base/topology.c.

    Before this patch:
        $ lscpu
        Architecture:          sparc64
        CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
        Byte Order:            Big Endian
        CPU(s):                1024
        On-line CPU(s) list:   0-1023
        Thread(s) per core:    8
        Core(s) per socket:    1     &lt;--- wrong
        Socket(s):             128   &lt;--- wrong
        NUMA node(s):          4
        NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-255
        NUMA node1 CPU(s):     256-511
        NUMA node2 CPU(s):     512-767
        NUMA node3 CPU(s):     768-1023

        After this patch:
        $ lscpu
        Architecture:          sparc64
        CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
        Byte Order:            Big Endian
        CPU(s):                1024
        On-line CPU(s) list:   0-1023
        Thread(s) per core:    8
        Core(s) per socket:    32
        Socket(s):             4
        NUMA node(s):          4
        NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-255
        NUMA node1 CPU(s):     256-511
        NUMA node2 CPU(s):     512-767
        NUMA node3 CPU(s):     768-1023

    Most of this patch was done by Chris with updates by David.

    Signed-off-by: Chris Hyser &lt;chris.hyser@oracle.com&gt;
    Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;david.ahern@oracle.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL allocation</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T23:49:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T22:47:11+00:00</published>
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Commit 920c3ed74134 ("[SPARC64]: Add basic infrastructure for MD
add/remove notification") has added __GFP_NOFAIL for the allocation
request but it hasn't mentioned why is this strict requirement really
needed.  The code was handling an allocation failure and propagated it
properly up the callchain so it is not clear why it is needed.

Dave has clarified the intention when I tried to remove the flag as not
being necessary:

: It is a serious failure.
:
: If we miss an MDESC update due to this allocation failure, the update
: is not an event which gets retransmitted so we will lose the updated
: machine description forever.
:
: We really need this allocation to succeed.

So add a comment to clarify the nofail flag and get rid of the failure
check because __GFP_NOFAIL allocation doesn't fail.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Vipul Pandya &lt;vipul@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 920c3ed74134 ("[SPARC64]: Add basic infrastructure for MD
add/remove notification") has added __GFP_NOFAIL for the allocation
request but it hasn't mentioned why is this strict requirement really
needed.  The code was handling an allocation failure and propagated it
properly up the callchain so it is not clear why it is needed.

Dave has clarified the intention when I tried to remove the flag as not
being necessary:

: It is a serious failure.
:
: If we miss an MDESC update due to this allocation failure, the update
: is not an event which gets retransmitted so we will lose the updated
: machine description forever.
:
: We really need this allocation to succeed.

So add a comment to clarify the nofail flag and get rid of the failure
check because __GFP_NOFAIL allocation doesn't fail.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Vipul Pandya &lt;vipul@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc: Add support for seek and shorter read to /dev/mdesc</title>
<updated>2014-07-22T04:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Khalid Aziz</name>
<email>khalid.aziz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-18T15:15:40+00:00</published>
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/dev/mdesc on Linux does not support reading arbitrary number
of bytes and seeking while /dev/mdesc on Solaris does. This
causes tools that work on Solaris to break on Linux. This patch
adds these two capabilities to /dev/mdesc.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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/dev/mdesc on Linux does not support reading arbitrary number
of bytes and seeking while /dev/mdesc on Solaris does. This
causes tools that work on Solaris to break on Linux. This patch
adds these two capabilities to /dev/mdesc.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64, sched: Remove unused sparc64_multi_core</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T11:05:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bhelgaas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-04T21:07:44+00:00</published>
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Remove sparc64_multi_core because it's not used any more.

It was added by a2f9f6bbb30e ("Fix {mc,smt}_capable()"), and the last uses
were removed by e637d96bf462 ("sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and
smt_capable()").

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140304210744.16893.75929.stgit@bhelgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove sparc64_multi_core because it's not used any more.

It was added by a2f9f6bbb30e ("Fix {mc,smt}_capable()"), and the last uses
were removed by e637d96bf462 ("sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and
smt_capable()").

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140304210744.16893.75929.stgit@bhelgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc: delete __cpuinit/__CPUINIT usage from all users</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-17T19:43:14+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/sparc uses of the __cpuinit macros from
C files and removes __CPUINIT from assembly files.  Note that even
though arch/sparc/kernel/trampoline_64.S has instances of ".previous"
in it, they are all paired off against explicit ".section" directives,
and not implicitly paired with __CPUINIT (unlike mips and arm were).

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/sparc uses of the __cpuinit macros from
C files and removes __CPUINIT from assembly files.  Note that even
though arch/sparc/kernel/trampoline_64.S has instances of ".previous"
in it, they are all paired off against explicit ".section" directives,
and not implicitly paired with __CPUINIT (unlike mips and arm were).

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Probe cpu page size support more portably.</title>
<updated>2012-09-07T02:01:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-07T02:01:25+00:00</published>
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On sun4v, interrogate the machine description.  This code is extremely
defensive in nature, and a lot of the checks can probably be removed.

On sun4u things are a lot simpler.  There are the page sizes all chips
support, and then Panther adds 32MB and 256MB pages.

Report the probed value in /proc/cpuinfo

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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On sun4v, interrogate the machine description.  This code is extremely
defensive in nature, and a lot of the checks can probably be removed.

On sun4u things are a lot simpler.  There are the page sizes all chips
support, and then Panther adds 32MB and 256MB pages.

Report the probed value in /proc/cpuinfo

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: add export.h to arch/sparc files as required</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-18T19:57:46+00:00</published>
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These files are only exporting symbols, so they don't need
the full module.h header file.  Previously they were getting
access to EXPORT_SYMBOL implicitly via overuse of module.h
from within other .h files, but that is being cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These files are only exporting symbols, so they don't need
the full module.h header file.  Previously they were getting
access to EXPORT_SYMBOL implicitly via overuse of module.h
from within other .h files, but that is being cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: fix implicit use of uaccess.h header in mdesc.c</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-20T01:15:28+00:00</published>
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Building sparc64 with the module.h cleanup reveals this implicit
include being taken advantage of:

arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_read':
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:900: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_to_user'

Fix it up before the implicit module.h presence is removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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Building sparc64 with the module.h cleanup reveals this implicit
include being taken advantage of:

arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_read':
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:900: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_to_user'

Fix it up before the implicit module.h presence is removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Size mondo queues more sanely.</title>
<updated>2011-08-05T09:38:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-05T09:38:27+00:00</published>
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There is currently no upper limit on the mondo queue sizes we'll use,
which guarentees that we'll eventually his page allocation limits, and
thus allocation failures, due to MAX_ORDER.

Cap the sizes sanely, current limits are:

CPU  MONDO	2 * max_possible_cpus
DEV  MONDO	256 (basically NR_IRQS)
RES  MONDO	128
NRES MONDO	4

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There is currently no upper limit on the mondo queue sizes we'll use,
which guarentees that we'll eventually his page allocation limits, and
thus allocation failures, due to MAX_ORDER.

Cap the sizes sanely, current limits are:

CPU  MONDO	2 * max_possible_cpus
DEV  MONDO	256 (basically NR_IRQS)
RES  MONDO	128
NRES MONDO	4

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: convert old cpumask API into new one</title>
<updated>2011-05-16T20:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-16T20:38:07+00:00</published>
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Adapt new API. Almost change is trivial, most important change are to
remove following like =operator.

 cpumask_t cpu_mask = *mm_cpumask(mm);
 cpus_allowed = current-&gt;cpus_allowed;

Because cpumask_var_t is =operator unsafe. These usage might prevent
kernel core improvement.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Adapt new API. Almost change is trivial, most important change are to
remove following like =operator.

 cpumask_t cpu_mask = *mm_cpumask(mm);
 cpus_allowed = current-&gt;cpus_allowed;

Because cpumask_var_t is =operator unsafe. These usage might prevent
kernel core improvement.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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