linux-toradex.git/include/asm-powerpc/ppc_asm.h, branch v2.6.24.2

[POWERPC] Fix modpost warnings from head*.S on ppc32

2007-09-14T13:53:36+00:00

We get warnings like the following from the various ppc32 head*.S files:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x358): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:early_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x380): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:machine_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x384): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:MMU_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3aa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3ae): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')

Added a .text.head section simliar to what other architectures do since
modpost already excludes this from its warnings.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

[POWERPC] Move iSeries startup code out of head_64.S

2007-08-22T06:48:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] iSeries: Fix section mismatch warnings

2007-07-26T06:12:17+00:00

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8124): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.iSeries_early_setup (between '.__start_initialization_iSeries' and '.__mmu_off')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8128): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.early_setup (between '.__start_initialization_iSeries' and '.__mmu_off')

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Cell timebase bug workaround

2006-10-25T01:54:18+00:00

The Cell CPU timebase has an erratum. When reading the entire 64 bits
of the timebase with one mftb instruction, there is a handful of cycles
window during which one might read a value with the low order 32 bits
already reset to 0x00000000 but the high order bits not yet incremeted
by one. This fixes it by reading the timebase again until the low order
32 bits is no longer 0. That might introduce occasional latencies if
hitting mftb just at the wrong time, but no more than 70ns on a cell
blade, and that was considered acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/

2006-04-26T11:56:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

powerpc: Implement accurate task and CPU time accounting

2006-02-24T03:05:56+00:00

This implements accurate task and cpu time accounting for 64-bit
powerpc kernels.  Instead of accounting a whole jiffy of time to a
task on a timer interrupt because that task happened to be running at
the time, we now account time in units of timebase ticks according to
the actual time spent by the task in user mode and kernel mode.  We
also count the time spent processing hardware and software interrupts
accurately.  This is conditional on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.  If
that is not set, we do tick-based approximate accounting as before.

To get this accurate information, we read either the PURR (processor
utilization of resources register) on POWER5 machines, or the timebase
on other machines on

* each entry to the kernel from usermode
* each exit to usermode
* transitions between process context, hard irq context and soft irq
  context in kernel mode
* context switches.

On POWER5 systems with shared-processor logical partitioning we also
read both the PURR and the timebase at each timer interrupt and
context switch in order to determine how much time has been taken by
the hypervisor to run other partitions ("steal" time).  Unfortunately,
since we need values of the PURR on both threads at the same time to
accurately calculate the steal time, and since we can only calculate
steal time on a per-core basis, the apportioning of the steal time
between idle time (time which we ceded to the hypervisor in the idle
loop) and actual stolen time is somewhat approximate at the moment.

This is all based quite heavily on what s390 does, and it uses the
generic interfaces that were added by the s390 developers,
i.e. account_system_time(), account_user_time(), etc.

This patch doesn't add any new interfaces between the kernel and
userspace, and doesn't change the units in which time is reported to
userspace by things such as /proc/stat, /proc//stat, getrusage(),
times(), etc.  Internally the various task and cpu times are stored in
timebase units, but they are converted to USER_HZ units (1/100th of a
second) when reported to userspace.  Some precision is therefore lost
but there should not be any accumulating error, since the internal
accumulation is at full precision.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup LOADADDR etc. asm macros

2006-01-13T10:16:23+00:00

This patch consolidates the variety of macros used for loading 32 or
64-bit constants in assembler (LOADADDR, LOADBASE, SET_REG_TO_*).  The
idea is to make the set of macros consistent across 32 and 64 bit and
to make it more obvious which is the appropriate one to use in a given
situation.  The new macros and their semantics are described in the
comments in ppc_asm.h.

In the process, we change several places that were unnecessarily using
immediate loads on ppc64 to use the GOT/TOC.  Likewise we cleanup a
couple of places where we were clumsily subtracting PAGE_OFFSET with
asm instructions to use assemble-time arithmetic or the toreal() macro
instead.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: sanitize header files for user space includes

2006-01-09T04:13:08+00:00

include/asm-ppc/ had #ifdef __KERNEL__ in all header files that
are not meant for use by user space, include/asm-powerpc does
not have this yet.

This patch gets us a lot closer there. There are a few cases
where I was not sure, so I left them out. I have verified
that no CONFIG_* symbols are used outside of __KERNEL__
any more and that there are no obvious compile errors when
including any of the headers in user space libraries.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros

2005-11-10T02:10:38+00:00

This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
compatibility across different CPUs or configs.  A new header,
asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros.  It
uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files.  Headers (bitops.h,
uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.

ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
that.  As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
here than in asm-compat.h.

While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.

Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).  Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Merge futex.h

2005-11-02T03:48:18+00:00

This patch merges the ppc32 and ppc64 versions of futex.h, essentially
by taking the ppc64 version as the powerpc version.  The old ppc32
version did not implement the futex_atomic_op_inuser() callback (it
always returned -ENOSYS), so FUTEX_WAKE_OP would not work on ppc32.
In fact the ppc64 version of this function is almost suitable for
ppc32 as well - the only change needed is to extend ppc_asm.h with a
macro expanding to to the right pseudo-op to store a pointer (either
".long" or ".llong").

Built and booted on pSeries.  Built for 32-bit powermac.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras