1. 09 Jun, 2006 15 commits
    • Michael Ellerman's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Make rtas console _much_ faster · b5374461
      Michael Ellerman authored
      Currently the hvc_rtas driver is painfully slow to use. Our "benchmark" is
      ls -R /etc, which spits out about 27866 characters. The theoretical maximum
      speed would be about 2.2 seconds, the current code takes ~50 seconds.
      
      The core of the problem is that sometimes when the tty layer asks us to push
      characters the firmware isn't able to handle some or all of them, and so
      returns an error. The current code sees this and just returns to the tty code
      with the buffer half sent.
      
      The khvcd thread will eventually wake up and try to push more characters, which
      will usually work because by then the firmware's had time to make room. But
      the khvcd thread only wakes up every 10 milliseconds, which isn't fast enough.
      
      So change the khvcd thread logic so that if there's an incomplete write we
      yield() and then immediately try writing again. Doing so makes POLL_QUICK and
      POLL_WRITE synonymous, so remove POLL_QUICK.
      
      With this patch our "benchmark" takes ~2.8 seconds.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      b5374461
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Implement PR_[GS]ET_UNALIGN prctls for powerpc · e9370ae1
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This gives the ability to control whether alignment exceptions get
      fixed up or reported to the process as a SIGBUS, using the existing
      PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN prctls.  We do not implement the
      option of logging a message on alignment exceptions.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      e9370ae1
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctl · fab5db97
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change
      their endian mode via prctl.
      
      This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up
      alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for
      "PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian.
      
      We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for
      little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian
      user/kernel ABI.  If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is
      restored to what it was when the signal was delivered.
      
      We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and
      one for true little-endian.  Most of the classic 32-bit processors
      support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature
      table.  There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland
      in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry.
      
      This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      fab5db97
    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      [PATCH] Add a prctl to change the endianness of a process. · 651d765d
      Anton Blanchard authored
      This new prctl is intended for changing the execution mode of the
      processor, on processors that support both a little-endian mode and a
      big-endian mode.  It is intended for use by programs such as
      instruction set emulators (for example an x86 emulator on PowerPC),
      which may find it convenient to use the processor in an alternate
      endianness mode when executing translated instructions.
      
      Note that this does not imply the existence of a fully-fledged ABI for
      both endiannesses, or of compatibility code for converting system
      calls done in the non-native endianness mode.  The program is expected
      to arrange for all of its system call arguments to be presented in the
      native endianness.
      
      Switching between big and little-endian mode will require some care in
      constructing the instruction sequence for the switch.  Generally the
      instructions up to the instruction that invokes the prctl system call
      will have to be in the old endianness, and subsequent instructions
      will have to be in the new endianness.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      651d765d
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option · 3b5e905e
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      When debugging early kernel crashes that happen after console_init() and
      before a proper console driver takes over, we often have to go hack into
      udbg.c to prevent it from unregistering so we can "see" what is
      happening. This patch adds a kernel command line option "udbg-immortal"
      instead to avoid having to modify the kernel.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      3b5e905e
    • Michael Neuling's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: oprofile support for POWER6 · e78dbc80
      Michael Neuling authored
      POWER6 moves some of the MMCRA bits and also requires some bits to be
      cleared each PMU interrupt.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      e78dbc80
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: node-aware dma allocations · 8eb6c6e3
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      Make sure dma_alloc_coherent allocates memory from the local node.  This
      is important on Cell where we avoid going through the slow cpu
      interconnect.
      
      Note:  I could only test this patch on Cell, it should be verified on
      some pseries machine by those that have the hardware.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      8eb6c6e3
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: implement pcibus_to_node and pcibus_to_cpumask · 318facbe
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      On 64bit powerpc we can find out what node a pci bus hangs off, so
      implement the topology.h macros that export this information.
      
      For 32bit this seems a little more difficult, but I don't know of 32bit
      powerpc NUMA machines either, so let's leave it out for now.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      318facbe
    • John Rose's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: reorg RTAS delay code · 507279db
      John Rose authored
      This patch attempts to handle RTAS "busy" return codes in a more simple
      and consistent manner.  Typical callers of RTAS shouldn't have to
      manage wait times and delay calls.
      
      This patch also changes the kernel to use msleep() rather than udelay()
      when a runtime delay is necessary.  This will avoid CPU soft lockups
      for extended delay conditions.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      507279db
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc kbuild warning fix · 4a3ecc62
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:339:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:347:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:357:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:373:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:382:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:394:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:842:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      arch/powerpc/Kconfig:847:warning: leading whitespace ignored
      
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      4a3ecc62
    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: add num_pmcs to 970MP cputable entry · 87af41be
      Anton Blanchard authored
      The 970MP cputable entry needs a num_pmcs entry for oprofile to work.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      87af41be
    • Will Schmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: fix of_parse_dma_window · 03ac829b
      Will Schmidt authored
      My js20 appears to lack the ibm,#dma- properties, and boot fails with a
      "Kernel panic - not syncing: iommu_init_table: Can't allocate 0 bytes"
      message.
      
      This adds a fallback to the "#address-cells" property in case the
      "#ibm,dma-address-cells" property is missing.   Tested on js20 and
      power5 lpar.
      
      Unless there is a more elegant solution... :-)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Schmidt <willschm@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      03ac829b
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Fix buglet with MMU hash management · c5cf0e30
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      Our MMU hash management code would not set the "C" bit (changed bit) in
      the hardware PTE when updating a RO PTE into a RW PTE. That would cause
      the hardware to possibly to a write back to the hash table to set it on
      the first store access, which in addition to being a performance issue,
      might also hit a bug when running with native hash management (non-HV)
      as our code is specifically optimized for the case where no write back
      happens.
      
      Thus there is a very small therocial window were a hash PTE can become
      corrupted if that HPTE has just been upgraded to read write, a store
      access happens on it, and that races with another processor evicting
      that same slot. Since eviction (caused by an almost full hash) is
      extremely rare, the bug is very unlikely to happen fortunately.
      
      This fixes by allowing the updating of the protection bits in the native
      hash handling to also set (but not clear) the "C" bit, and, in order to
      also improve performances in the general case, by always setting that
      bit on newly inserted hash PTE so that writeback really never happens.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      c5cf0e30
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc vdso updates · a5bba930
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and
      moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context
      where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation
      closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function
      allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is
      also applied.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a5bba930
    • Renzo Davoli's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: enable PPC_PTRACE_[GS]ETREGS on ppc32 · 98a90c02
      Renzo Davoli authored
      I have tested PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS and PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS on umview.
      
      I do not understand why historically these tags has been defined as
      PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS and PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS instead of simply
      PTRACE_[GS]ETREGS. The other "originality" is that the address must be
      put into the "addr" field instead of the "data" field as stated in the
      manual.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarrenzo davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      98a90c02
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