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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/asm-powerpc, branch v2.6.19.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Add powerpc get/set_rtc_time interface to new generic rtc class"</title>
<updated>2006-11-22T01:13:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-21T16:31:14+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 7a69af63e788a324d162201a0b23df41bcf158dd.

As advised by David Brownell:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=116387226902131&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 7a69af63e788a324d162201a0b23df41bcf158dd.

As advised by David Brownell:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=116387226902131&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Wire up sys_move_pages</title>
<updated>2006-11-15T23:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-13T03:52:42+00:00</published>
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All the infrastructure is already in place for this, so we only need
to allocate a syscall number and hook it up.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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All the infrastructure is already in place for this, so we only need
to allocate a syscall number and hook it up.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Add the thread_siblings files to sysfs</title>
<updated>2006-11-15T23:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-13T03:51:46+00:00</published>
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This adds the /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/topology/thread_siblings
files on powerpc.  These files are already available on other
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This adds the /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/topology/thread_siblings
files on powerpc.  These files are already available on other
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: wire up sys_migrate_pages</title>
<updated>2006-11-03T20:27:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-03T06:07:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Make mmiowb's io_sync preempt safe</title>
<updated>2006-11-01T03:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-31T18:41:51+00:00</published>
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If mmiowb() is always used prior to releasing spinlock as Doc suggests,
then it's safe against preemption; but I'm not convinced that's always
the case.  If preemption occurs between sync and get_paca()-&gt;io_sync = 0,
I believe there's no problem.  But in the unlikely event that gcc does
the store relative to another register than r13 (as it did with current),
then there's a small danger of setting another cpu's io_sync to 0, after
it had just set it to 1.  Rewrite ppc64 mmiowb to prevent that.

The remaining io_sync assignments in io.h all get_paca()-&gt;io_sync = 1,
which is harmless even if preempted to the wrong cpu (the context switch
itself syncs); and those in spinlock.h are while preemption is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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If mmiowb() is always used prior to releasing spinlock as Doc suggests,
then it's safe against preemption; but I'm not convinced that's always
the case.  If preemption occurs between sync and get_paca()-&gt;io_sync = 0,
I believe there's no problem.  But in the unlikely event that gcc does
the store relative to another register than r13 (as it did with current),
then there's a small danger of setting another cpu's io_sync to 0, after
it had just set it to 1.  Rewrite ppc64 mmiowb to prevent that.

The remaining io_sync assignments in io.h all get_paca()-&gt;io_sync = 1,
which is harmless even if preempted to the wrong cpu (the context switch
itself syncs); and those in spinlock.h are while preemption is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>[POWERPC] Make current preempt-safe</title>
<updated>2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-31T18:39:31+00:00</published>
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Repeated -j20 kernel builds on a G5 Quad running an SMP PREEMPT kernel
would often collapse within a day, some exec failing with "Bad address".
In each case examined, load_elf_binary was doing a kernel_read, but
generic_file_aio_read's access_ok saw current-&gt;thread.fs.seg as USER_DS
instead of KERNEL_DS.

objdump of filemap.o shows gcc 4.1.0 emitting "mr r5,r13 ... ld r9,416(r5)"
here for get_paca()-&gt;__current, instead of the expected and much more usual
"ld r9,416(r13)"; I've seen other gcc4s do the same, but perhaps not gcc3s.

So, if the task is preempted and rescheduled on a different cpu in between
the mr and the ld, r5 will be looking at a different paca_struct from the
one it's now on, pick up the wrong __current, and perhaps the wrong seg.
Presumably much worse could happen elsewhere, though that split is rare.

Other architectures appear to be safe (x86_64's read_pda is more limiting
than get_paca), but ppc64 needs to force "current" into one instruction.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Repeated -j20 kernel builds on a G5 Quad running an SMP PREEMPT kernel
would often collapse within a day, some exec failing with "Bad address".
In each case examined, load_elf_binary was doing a kernel_read, but
generic_file_aio_read's access_ok saw current-&gt;thread.fs.seg as USER_DS
instead of KERNEL_DS.

objdump of filemap.o shows gcc 4.1.0 emitting "mr r5,r13 ... ld r9,416(r5)"
here for get_paca()-&gt;__current, instead of the expected and much more usual
"ld r9,416(r13)"; I've seen other gcc4s do the same, but perhaps not gcc3s.

So, if the task is preempted and rescheduled on a different cpu in between
the mr and the ld, r5 will be looking at a different paca_struct from the
one it's now on, pick up the wrong __current, and perhaps the wrong seg.
Presumably much worse could happen elsewhere, though that split is rare.

Other architectures appear to be safe (x86_64's read_pda is more limiting
than get_paca), but ppc64 needs to force "current" into one instruction.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Use 4kB iommu pages even on 64kB-page systems</title>
<updated>2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linas Vepstas</name>
<email>linas@austin.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-30T05:15:59+00:00</published>
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The 10Gigabit ethernet device drivers appear to be able to chew
up all 256MB of TCE mappings on pSeries systems, as evidenced by
numerous error messages:

 iommu_alloc failed, tbl c0000000010d5c48 vaddr c0000000d875eff0 npages 1

Some experimentation indicates that this is essentially because
one 1500 byte ethernet MTU gets mapped as a 64K DMA region when
the large 64K pages are enabled. Thus, it doesn't take much to
exhaust all of the available DMA mappings for a high-speed card.

This patch changes the iommu allocator to work with its own
unique, distinct page size. Although the patch is long, its
actually quite simple: it just #defines a distinct IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE
and then uses this in all the places that matter.

As a side effect, it also dramatically improves network performance
on platforms with H-calls on iommu translation inserts/removes (since
we no longer call it 16 times for a 1500 bytes packet when the iommu HW
is still 4k).

In the future, we might want to make the IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE a variable
in the iommu_table instance, thus allowing support for different HW
page sizes in the iommu itself.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas &lt;linas@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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The 10Gigabit ethernet device drivers appear to be able to chew
up all 256MB of TCE mappings on pSeries systems, as evidenced by
numerous error messages:

 iommu_alloc failed, tbl c0000000010d5c48 vaddr c0000000d875eff0 npages 1

Some experimentation indicates that this is essentially because
one 1500 byte ethernet MTU gets mapped as a 64K DMA region when
the large 64K pages are enabled. Thus, it doesn't take much to
exhaust all of the available DMA mappings for a high-speed card.

This patch changes the iommu allocator to work with its own
unique, distinct page size. Although the patch is long, its
actually quite simple: it just #defines a distinct IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE
and then uses this in all the places that matter.

As a side effect, it also dramatically improves network performance
on platforms with H-calls on iommu translation inserts/removes (since
we no longer call it 16 times for a 1500 bytes packet when the iommu HW
is still 4k).

In the future, we might want to make the IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE a variable
in the iommu_table instance, thus allowing support for different HW
page sizes in the iommu itself.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas &lt;linas@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix oprofile support for e500 in arch/powerpc</title>
<updated>2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Fleming</name>
<email>afleming@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-27T20:06:32+00:00</published>
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Fixed a compile error in building the 85xx support with oprofile, and in
the process cleaned up some issues with the fsl_booke performance monitor
code.

* Reorganized FSL Book-E performance monitoring code so that the 7450
  wouldn't be built if the e500 was, and cleaned it up so it was more
  self-contained.

* Added a cpu_setup function for FSL Book-E.  The original
  cpu_setup function prototype had no arguments, assuming that
  the reg_setup function would copy the required information into
  variables which represented the registers.  This was silly for
  e500, since it has 1 register per counter (rather than 3 for
  all counters), so the code has been restructured to have
  cpu_setup take the current counter config array as an argument,
  with op_powerpc_setup() invoking op_powerpc_cpu_setup() through
  on_each_cpu(), and op_powerpc_cpu_setup() invoking the
  model-specific cpu_setup function with an argument.  The
  argument is ignored on all other platforms at present.

* Fixed a confusing line where a trinary operator only had two
  arguments

Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming &lt;afleming@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Fixed a compile error in building the 85xx support with oprofile, and in
the process cleaned up some issues with the fsl_booke performance monitor
code.

* Reorganized FSL Book-E performance monitoring code so that the 7450
  wouldn't be built if the e500 was, and cleaned it up so it was more
  self-contained.

* Added a cpu_setup function for FSL Book-E.  The original
  cpu_setup function prototype had no arguments, assuming that
  the reg_setup function would copy the required information into
  variables which represented the registers.  This was silly for
  e500, since it has 1 register per counter (rather than 3 for
  all counters), so the code has been restructured to have
  cpu_setup take the current counter config array as an argument,
  with op_powerpc_setup() invoking op_powerpc_cpu_setup() through
  on_each_cpu(), and op_powerpc_cpu_setup() invoking the
  model-specific cpu_setup function with an argument.  The
  argument is ignored on all other platforms at present.

* Fixed a confusing line where a trinary operator only had two
  arguments

Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming &lt;afleming@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix rmb() for e500-based machines it</title>
<updated>2006-11-01T03:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Fleming</name>
<email>afleming@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-27T19:31:07+00:00</published>
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The e500 core generates an illegal instruction exception when it tries
to execute the lwsync instruction, which we currently use for rmb().
This fixes it by using the LWSYNC macro, which turns into a plain sync
on 32-bit machines.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming &lt;afleming@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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The e500 core generates an illegal instruction exception when it tries
to execute the lwsync instruction, which we currently use for rmb().
This fixes it by using the LWSYNC macro, which turns into a plain sync
on 32-bit machines.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming &lt;afleming@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix CHRP platforms with only 8259</title>
<updated>2006-10-25T03:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-25T03:22:27+00:00</published>
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On CHRP platforms with only a 8259 controller, we should set the
default IRQ host to the 8259 driver's one for the IRQ probing
fallbacks to work in case the IRQ tree is incorrect (like on
Pegasos for example). Without this fix, we get a bunch of WARN_ON's
during boot.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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On CHRP platforms with only a 8259 controller, we should set the
default IRQ host to the 8259 driver's one for the IRQ probing
fallbacks to work in case the IRQ tree is incorrect (like on
Pegasos for example). Without this fix, we get a bunch of WARN_ON's
during boot.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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