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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/asm-s390, branch v2.6.25-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[S390] dynamic page tables.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-09T17:24:37+00:00</published>
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Add support for different number of page table levels dependent
on the highest address used for a process. This will cause a 31 bit
process to use a two level page table instead of the four level page
table that is the default after the pud has been introduced. Likewise
a normal 64 bit process will use three levels instead of four. Only
if a process runs out of the 4 tera bytes which can be addressed with
a three level page table the fourth level is dynamically added. Then
the process can use up to 8 peta byte.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Add support for different number of page table levels dependent
on the highest address used for a process. This will cause a 31 bit
process to use a two level page table instead of the four level page
table that is the default after the pud has been introduced. Likewise
a normal 64 bit process will use three levels instead of four. Only
if a process runs out of the 4 tera bytes which can be addressed with
a three level page table the fourth level is dynamically added. Then
the process can use up to 8 peta byte.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] Add four level page tables for CONFIG_64BIT=y.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-09T17:24:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] 1K/2K page table pages.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-09T17:24:35+00:00</published>
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This patch implements 1K/2K page table pages for s390.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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This patch implements 1K/2K page table pages for s390.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] Remove a.out header file.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-09T17:24:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] VMEM_MAX_PHYS overflow on 31 bit.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-09T17:24:31+00:00</published>
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With the new space saving spinlock_t and a non-debug configuration
the struct page only has 32 bytes for 31 bit s390. The causes an
overflow in the calculation of VMEM_MAX_PHYS which renders the
kernel unbootable.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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With the new space saving spinlock_t and a non-debug configuration
the struct page only has 32 bytes for 31 bit s390. The causes an
overflow in the calculation of VMEM_MAX_PHYS which renders the
kernel unbootable.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] Fix __ffs_word_loop/__ffz_word_loop inlnie assembly.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-09T17:24:29+00:00</published>
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The black art of inline assemblies.. The new __ffs_word_loop/
__ffz_word_loop inline assemblies need an early clobber for the
two input/output variables.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The black art of inline assemblies.. The new __ffs_word_loop/
__ffz_word_loop inline assemblies need an early clobber for the
two input/output variables.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] Wire up new timerfd syscalls.</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:24:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-09T17:24:28+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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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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<entry>
<title>aout: move STACK_TOP[_MAX] to asm/processor.h</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-08T12:19:26+00:00</published>
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Move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're
required whether or not A.OUT format is available.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.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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Move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're
required whether or not A.OUT format is available.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.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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<entry>
<title>tty: s390 support for termios2.</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:18:40+00:00</published>
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Backend for s390.

Acked-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: 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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Backend for s390.

Acked-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: 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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