- 09 Dec, 2009 13 commits
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
Currently the cpu-allocation/deallocation process comprises of two steps: - Set the indicators and to update the device tree with DLPAR node information. - Online/offline the allocated/deallocated CPU. This is achieved by writing to the sysfs tunables "probe" during allocation and "release" during deallocation. At the sametime, the userspace can independently online/offline the CPUs of the system using the sysfs tunable "online". It is quite possible that when a userspace tool offlines a CPU for the purpose of deallocation and is in the process of updating the device tree, some other userspace tool could bring the CPU back online by writing to the "online" sysfs tunable thereby causing the deallocate process to fail. The solution to this is to serialize writes to the "probe/release" sysfs tunable with the writes to the "online" sysfs tunable. This patch employs a mutex to provide this serialization, which is a no-op on all architectures except PPC_PSERIES Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
Currently the cpu-allocation/deallocation on pSeries is a two step process from the Userspace. - Set the indicators and update the device tree by writing to the sysfs tunable "probe" during allocation and "release" during deallocation. - Online / Offline the CPUs of the allocated/would_be_deallocated node by writing to the sysfs tunable "online". This patch adds kernel code to online/offline the CPUs soon_after/just_before they have been allocated/would_be_deallocated. This way, the userspace tool that performs DLPAR operations would only have to deal with one set of sysfs tunables namely "probe" and release". Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Valentine Barshak authored
Remove the CPU from the online map to prevent smp_call_function from sending messages to a stopped CPU. Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nathan Fontenot authored
This patch adds the specific routines to probe and release (add and remove) cpu resource for the powerpc pseries platform and registers these handlers with the ppc_md callout structure. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nathan Fontenot authored
Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to Documentation/ABI. There are no changes to any of the C code from v2 of the patch. In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system. This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate cpu probe/release. The probe/release interface provides for allowing each arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding and removing cpus to/from the system. This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts from writes to the sysfs files. The creation and use of these files is regulated by the CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the capability will have the files created. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nathan Fontenot authored
The Dynamic Logical Partitioning capabilities of the powerpc pseries platform allows for the addition and removal of resources (i.e. CPU's, memory, and PCI devices) from a partition. The removal of a resource involves removing the resource's node from the device tree and then returning the resource to firmware via the rtas set-indicator call. To add a resource, it is first obtained from firmware via the rtas set-indicator call and then a new device tree node is created using the ibm,configure-coinnector rtas call and added to the device tree. This patch provides the kernel DLPAR infrastructure in a new filed named dlpar.c. The functionality provided is for acquiring and releasing a resource from firmware and the parsing of information returned from the ibm,configure-connector rtas call. Additionally this exports the pSeries reconfiguration notifier chain so that it can be invoked when device tree updates are made. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Darrick J. Wong authored
In commit 0512a9a8, we unilaterally zero the "pwm invert" bit in the fan behavior configuration register. On my PowerBook G4, this results in the fans going to full speed at low temperature and shutting off at high temperature because the pwm invert bit is supposed to be set. Therefore, record the pwm invert bit at driver load time, and write the bit into the fan behavior control register. This restores correct behavior on my PBG4 and should work around the bit being set to the wrong value after suspend/resume (which is what the original patch was trying to fix). It also fixes a minor omission where the pwm invert bit correction is NOT performed when switching into automatic mode. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> CC: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michel Dänzer authored
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michel Dänzer authored
Also short-circuit empty updates. Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Dave Airlie authored
This allows offb to be used for initial framebuffer, and a kms driver to take over later in the boot sequence. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This is a libata driver for the "macio" IDE controller used on most Apple PowerMac and PowerBooks. It's a libata equivalent of drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c It supports all the features of its predecessor, including mediabay hotplug and suspend/resume. It should also support module load/unload. The timing calculations have been simplified to use pre-calculated tables compared to drivers/ide/pmac.c and it uses the new mediabay interface provided by a previous patch. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
In libata-sff, ata_sff_post_internal_cmd() directly calls ata_bmdma_stop() instead of ap->ops->bmdma_stop(). This can be a problem for controllers that use their own bmdma_stop for which the generic sff one isn't suitable Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The hotplug mediabay has tendrils deep into drivers/ide code which makes a libata port reather difficult. In addition it's ugly and could be done better. This reworks the interface between the mediabay and the rest of the world so that: - Any macio_driver can now have a mediabay_event callback which will be called when that driver sits on a mediabay and it's been either plugged or unplugged. The device type is passed as an argument. We can now move all the IDE cruft into the IDE driver itself - A check_media_bay() function can be used to take a peek at the type of device currently in the bay if any, a cleaner variant of the previous function with the same name. - A pair of lock/unlock functions are exposed to allow the IDE driver to block the hotplug callbacks during the initial setup and probing of the bay in order to avoid nasty race conditions. - The mediabay code no longer needs to spin on the status register of the IDE interface when it detects an IDE device, this is done just fine by the IDE code itself Overall, less code, simpler, and allows for another driver than our old drivers/ide based one. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 08 Dec, 2009 7 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This adds dma_parms to macio devices and initializes them with default values. This will allow pata_macio to setup the appropriate max segment size for the block layer. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This adds some basic devres support. When enabled via macio_enable_devres() resources requested by drivers will be automatically released. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Alexander Graf authored
Currently userspace has no chance to find out which virtual address space we're in and resolve addresses. While that is a big problem for migration, it's also unpleasent when debugging, as gdb and the monitor don't work on virtual addresses. This patch exports enough of the MMU segment state to userspace to make debugging work and thus also includes the groundwork for migration. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Amit Shah authored
The virtio console, which uses hvc, will get the ability to hot-unplug ports. Export hvc_remove so that virtio_console can disassociate with hvc. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Bolko Maass authored
Windfarm SMU control is explicitly missing support for a second CPU pump in G5 PowerMacs. Such machines actually exist (specifically Quads with a second pump), so this patch adds detection for it. Signed-off by: Bolko Maass <bmaass@math.uni-bremen.de> CC: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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David Gibson authored
Commit a0668cdc cleans up the handling of kmem_caches for allocating various levels of pagetables. Unfortunately, it conflicts badly with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT, due to the latter's cleverly hidden technique of adding some extra allocation space to the top level page directory to store the extra information it needs. Since that extra allocation really doesn't fit into the cleaned up page directory allocating scheme, this patch alters CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT to instead allocate its struct subpage_prot_table as part of the mm_context_t. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 01 Dec, 2009 1 commit
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This reverts commit c045256d. It breaks build when CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT is not set. I will commit a fixed version separately Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 27 Nov, 2009 3 commits
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Michal Simek authored
Many boards have a bug-free ns16550 compatible serial port, which we should register as PORT_16550A. This introduces a new value "ns16550a" for the compatible property of of_serial to let a firmware choose that model instead of using the crippled PORT_16550 mode. Reported-by: Alon Ziv <alonz@nolaviz.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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David Gibson authored
Commit a4fe3ce7 introduced a new get_user_pages() path for hugepages on powerpc. Unfortunately, there is a bug in it's loop logic, which can cause it to overrun the end of the intended region. This came about by copying the logic from the normal page path, which assumes the address and end parameters have been pagesize aligned at the top-level. Since they're not *hugepage* size aligned, the simplistic logic could step over the end of the gup region without triggering the loop end condition. This patch fixes the bug by using the technique that the normal page path uses in levels above the lowest to truncate the ending address to something we know we'll match with. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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David Gibson authored
Commit a0668cdc cleans up the handling of kmem_caches for allocating various levels of pagetables. Unfortunately, it conflicts badly with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT, due to the latter's cleverly hidden technique of adding some extra allocation space to the top level page directory to store the extra information it needs. Since that extra allocation really doesn't fit into the cleaned up page directory allocating scheme, this patch alters CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT to instead allocate its struct subpage_prot_table as part of the mm_context_t. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 24 Nov, 2009 15 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Commit 87ec0e98 in kumar's next branch broke one of my test configs since it looks like Anton forgot about that mpc832x_rdb platform which still uses the old style probing for the SPI stuff. I'll let them do a cleaner fix that probably involves changing the probing method and getting rid of the platform device but for now this will do to fix it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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arnd@arndb.de authored
This patch was submitted, discussed, and eventually Acked by everyone, yet still isn't in the tree. See: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1240/Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@anrdb.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Becky Bruce authored
Code was added to mm/higmem.c that depends on several kmap types that powerpc does not support. We add dummy invalid definitions for KM_NMI, KM_NM_PTE, and KM_IRQ_PTE. According to list discussion, this fix should not be needed anymore starting with 2.6.33. The code is commented to this effect so hopefully we will remember to remove this. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
We can kill unused swiotlb variable. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Since they are static inline functions. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The code under "if (is_global_init())" is bogus, and is_global_init() itself is not right in mt case. Contrary to what the comment says, nowadays force_sig_info() does kill init even if the handler is SIG_DFL. Note that force_sig_info() clears SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE exactly for this case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
When a CPU is offlined on POWER currently, we call rtas_stop_self() and hand the CPU back to the resource pool. This path is used for DLPAR which will cause a change in the LPAR configuration which will be visible outside. This patch changes the default state a CPU is put into when it is offlined. On platforms which support ceding the processor to the hypervisor with latency hint specifier value, during a cpu offline operation, instead of calling rtas_stop_self(), we cede the vCPU to the hypervisor while passing a latency hint specifier value. The Hypervisor can use this hint to provide better energy savings. Also, during the offline operation, the control of the vCPU remains with the LPAR as oppposed to returning it to the resource pool. The patch achieves this by creating an infrastructure to set the preferred_offline_state() which can be either - CPU_STATE_OFFLINE: which is the current behaviour of calling rtas_stop_self() - CPU_STATE_INACTIVE: which cedes the vCPU to the hypervisor with the latency hint specifier. The codepath which wants to perform a DLPAR operation can set the preferred_offline_state() of a CPU to CPU_STATE_OFFLINE before invoking cpu_down(). The patch also provides a boot-time command line argument to disable/enable CPU_STATE_INACTIVE. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
This patch provides an extended_cede_processor() helper function which takes the cede latency hint as an argument. This hint is to be passed on to the hypervisor to cede to the corresponding state on platforms which support it. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Move ehea hcall definitions into hvcall.h. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The typename member of struct irq_chip was kept for migration purposes and is obsolete since more than 2 years. Fix up the leftovers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated. Init the lock array at runtime instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek() as it obviously protects nothing. The file offset is safe in essence. The ioctl can be converted to unlocked_ioctl because it just calls pmac_get_partition() which reads a value from an array which was initialized at early boot time. No need for serialization. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The ioctl is only used for powermac systems and reads a partition number from an array which is initialized at boot time way before the nvram code is initialized. So it's safe to switch to unlocked_ioctl. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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roel kluin authored
size_t len cannot be less than 0. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 23 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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