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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/asm-ppc, branch v2.6.26-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>[RAPIDIO] Move include/asm-ppc/rio.h to asm-powerpc</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T09:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Wei</name>
<email>wei.zhang@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-18T20:33:40+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei &lt;wei.zhang@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei &lt;wei.zhang@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce pte_special pte bit</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:13:00+00:00</published>
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s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory
model (which is more dynamic than most).  Instead, they had proposed to
implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in
the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted:

vm_normal_page()
{
	...
        if (unlikely(vma-&gt;vm_flags &amp; (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) {
                if (vma-&gt;vm_flags &amp; VM_MIXEDMAP) {
#ifdef s390
			if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
				return NULL;
#else
                        if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
                                return NULL;
#endif
                        goto out;
                }
	...
}

This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine
refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based
schemes.  So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based
scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get
slightly better code generation in the process):

vm_normal_page()
{
#ifdef s390
	if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
		return NULL;
	return pte_page(pte);
#else
	...
#endif
}

And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather
than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this.
Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may
not be able to spare pte bits.  This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more
ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate.

So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c.  It is
currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any
compiled code changes to mm/memory.o.

BTW:
I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion.
The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually
implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it
depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the
only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function --
the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and
accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do
not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and
we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there
out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then
we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I
don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions,
while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both
mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&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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s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory
model (which is more dynamic than most).  Instead, they had proposed to
implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in
the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted:

vm_normal_page()
{
	...
        if (unlikely(vma-&gt;vm_flags &amp; (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) {
                if (vma-&gt;vm_flags &amp; VM_MIXEDMAP) {
#ifdef s390
			if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
				return NULL;
#else
                        if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
                                return NULL;
#endif
                        goto out;
                }
	...
}

This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine
refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based
schemes.  So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based
scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get
slightly better code generation in the process):

vm_normal_page()
{
#ifdef s390
	if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
		return NULL;
	return pte_page(pte);
#else
	...
#endif
}

And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather
than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this.
Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may
not be able to spare pte bits.  This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more
ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate.

So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c.  It is
currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any
compiled code changes to mm/memory.o.

BTW:
I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion.
The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually
implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it
depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the
only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function --
the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and
accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do
not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and
we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there
out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then
we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I
don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions,
while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both
mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&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>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] 4xx: Fix duplicate phys_addr_t definition</title>
<updated>2008-04-24T10:57:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Boyer</name>
<email>jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-22T00:49:34+00:00</published>
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Commit d04ceb3fc294ea2c4f538a04343f3a473953a3b0 moved phys_addr_t
definitions to include/asm-powerpc/types.h.  However, arch/ppc 440
builds had a duplicate definition in include/asm-ppc/mmu.h that caused
the build to fail.

This removes the duplicate definition in arch/ppc.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Commit d04ceb3fc294ea2c4f538a04343f3a473953a3b0 moved phys_addr_t
definitions to include/asm-powerpc/types.h.  However, arch/ppc 440
builds had a duplicate definition in include/asm-ppc/mmu.h that caused
the build to fail.

This removes the duplicate definition in arch/ppc.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'powerpc-next' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc</title>
<updated>2008-04-24T10:57:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-24T10:57:20+00:00</published>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PPC] Remove mpc885ads and mpc86x ads boards from arch/ppc</title>
<updated>2008-04-21T15:19:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-19T15:48:34+00:00</published>
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We have a board port in arch/powerpc so we dont need this one anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
We have a board port in arch/powerpc so we dont need this one anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PPC] Remove mpc8272 ads board from arch/ppc</title>
<updated>2008-04-21T15:19:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-19T15:41:43+00:00</published>
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We have a board port in arch/powerpc so we dont need this one anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We have a board port in arch/powerpc so we dont need this one anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h</title>
<updated>2008-04-19T02:16:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>matthew@wil.cx</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-26T15:00:17+00:00</published>
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None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.  It's possible that they (or some user of them) rely
on it dragging in some unrelated header file, but I can't build all
these files, so we'll have to fix any build failures as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.  It's possible that they (or some user of them) rely
on it dragging in some unrelated header file, but I can't build all
these files, so we'll have to fix any build failures as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PPC] 8xx: swap bug-fix</title>
<updated>2008-03-07T22:56:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuri Tikhonov</name>
<email>yur@emcraft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-02T07:47:31+00:00</published>
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This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based machines.

Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on low-memory platfor
those are actually non-operable without it.

Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov &lt;yur@emcraft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based machines.

Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on low-memory platfor
those are actually non-operable without it.

Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov &lt;yur@emcraft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix arch/ppc compilation - add typedef for pgtable_t</title>
<updated>2008-02-14T11:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roese</name>
<email>sr@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-11T09:41:18+00:00</published>
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Commit 2f569afd9ced9ebec9a6eb3dbf6f83429be0a7b4 ("CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs.
sub-page page tables.") breaks compilation of arch/ppc since it
introduces the pgtable_t type which was not added to arch/ppc.

This adds the missing typedef.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Commit 2f569afd9ced9ebec9a6eb3dbf6f83429be0a7b4 ("CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs.
sub-page page tables.") breaks compilation of arch/ppc since it
introduces the pgtable_t type which was not added to arch/ppc.

This adds the missing typedef.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:22:04+00:00</published>
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Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390.  These sub-page
page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization
instruction with KVM.  The SIE instruction requires that the page tables
have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries
(pgste).  The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE
instruction.  The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor
for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking.
To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return
1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE.

Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K.  That means
the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct
page.  Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one
cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than
32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be
accessible since its not kmapped).

Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a
pgtable_t.  For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a
later patch.  For everybody else it will be a (struct page *).  The
additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the
NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and
a destructor pgtable_page_dtor.  The page table allocation and free
functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or
freed.  pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer.
 To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with
pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added.  It replaces the pmd_page
call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&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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Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390.  These sub-page
page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization
instruction with KVM.  The SIE instruction requires that the page tables
have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries
(pgste).  The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE
instruction.  The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor
for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking.
To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return
1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE.

Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K.  That means
the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct
page.  Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one
cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than
32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be
accessible since its not kmapped).

Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a
pgtable_t.  For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a
later patch.  For everybody else it will be a (struct page *).  The
additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the
NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and
a destructor pgtable_page_dtor.  The page table allocation and free
functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or
freed.  pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer.
 To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with
pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added.  It replaces the pmd_page
call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&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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