- 01 Jul, 2013 24 commits
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Michael Ellerman authored
Similar to the facility unavailble exception, except the facilities are controlled by HFSCR. Adapt the facility_unavailable_exception() so it can be called for either the regular or Hypervisor facility unavailable exceptions. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Ellerman authored
The exception at 0xf60 is not the TM (Transactional Memory) unavailable exception, it is the "Facility Unavailable Exception", rename it as such. Flesh out the handler to acknowledge the fact that it can be called for many reasons, one of which is TM being unavailable. Use STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON() for the exception body, for some reason we had it open-coded, I've checked the generated code is identical. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Ellerman authored
KVMTEST is a macro which checks whether we are taking an exception from guest context, if so we branch out of line and eventually call into the KVM code to handle the switch. When running real guests on bare metal (HV KVM) the hardware ensures that we never take a relocation on exception when transitioning from guest to host. For PR KVM we disable relocation on exceptions ourself in kvmppc_core_init_vm(), as of commit a413f474 "Disable relocation on exceptions whenever PR KVM is active". So convert all the RELON macros to use NOTEST, and drop the remaining KVM_HANDLER() definitions we have for 0xe40 and 0xe80. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.9+] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Ellerman authored
We have relocation on exception handlers defined for h_data_storage and h_instr_storage. However we will never take relocation on exceptions for these because they can only come from a guest, and we never take relocation on exceptions when we transition from guest to host. We also have a handler for hmi_exception (Hypervisor Maintenance) which is defined in the architecture to never be delivered with relocation on, see see v2.07 Book III-S section 6.5. So remove the handlers, leaving a branch to self just to be double extra paranoid. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.9+] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nathan Fontenot authored
The topology update code that updates the cpu node registration in sysfs should not be called while in stop_machine(). The register/unregister calls take a lock and may sleep. This patch moves these calls outside of the call to stop_machine(). Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
Update MAINTAINERS to reflect recent changes. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Chen Gang authored
the smp_release_cpus is a normal funciton and called in normal environments, but it calls the __initdata spinning_secondaries. need modify spinning_secondaries to match smp_release_cpus. the related warning: (the linker report boot_paca.33377, but it should be spinning_secondaries) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x23176): Section mismatch in reference from the function .smp_release_cpus() to the variable .init.data:boot_paca.33377 The function .smp_release_cpus() references the variable __initdata boot_paca.33377. This is often because .smp_release_cpus lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of boot_paca.33377 is wrong. WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x231fe): Section mismatch in reference from the function .smp_release_cpus() to the variable .init.data:boot_paca.33377 The function .smp_release_cpus() references the variable __initdata boot_paca.33377. This is often because .smp_release_cpus lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of boot_paca.33377 is wrong. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Wolfram Sang authored
A few new i2c-drivers came into the kernel which clear the clientdata-pointer on exit or error. This is obsolete meanwhile, the core will do it. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Chen Gang authored
When error occurs, need return the related error code to let upper caller know about it. ppc_md.nvram_size() can return the error code (e.g. core99_nvram_size() in 'arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.c'). Also set ret value when only need it, so can save structions for normal cases. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Li Zhong authored
It seems following race is possible: cpu0 cpux smp_init->cpu_up->_cpu_up __cpu_up kick_cpu(1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- waiting online ... ... notify CPU_STARTING set cpux active set cpux online ------------------------------------------------------------------------- finish waiting online ... sched_init_smp init_sched_domains(cpu_active_mask) build_sched_domains set cpux sibling info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Execution of cpu0 and cpux could be concurrent between two separator lines. So if the cpux sibling information was set too late (normally impossible, but could be triggered by adding some delay in start_secondary, after setting cpu online), build_sched_domains() running on cpu0 might see cpux active, with an empty sibling mask, then cause some bad address accessing like following: [ 0.099855] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc00000038518078f [ 0.099868] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000b7a64 [ 0.099883] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 0.099895] PREEMPT SMP NR_CPUS=16 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries [ 0.099922] Modules linked in: [ 0.099940] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc1-00120-gb973425c-dirty #16 [ 0.099956] task: c0000001fed80000 ti: c0000001fed7c000 task.ti: c0000001fed7c000 [ 0.099971] NIP: c0000000000b7a64 LR: c0000000000b7a40 CTR: c0000000000b4934 [ 0.099985] REGS: c0000001fed7f760 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (3.10.0-rc1-00120-gb973425c-dirty) [ 0.099997] MSR: 8000000000009032 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 24272828 XER: 20000003 [ 0.100045] SOFTE: 1 [ 0.100053] CFAR: c000000000445ee8 [ 0.100064] DAR: c00000038518078f, DSISR: 40000000 [ 0.100073] GPR00: 0000000000000080 c0000001fed7f9e0 c000000000c84d48 0000000000000010 GPR04: 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 c0000001fc55e090 0000000000000000 GPR08: ffffffffffffffff c000000000b80b30 c000000000c962d8 00000003845ffc5f GPR12: 0000000000000000 c00000000f33d000 c00000000000b9e4 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 GPR20: c000000000ccf750 0000000000000000 c000000000c94d48 c0000001fc504000 GPR24: c0000001fc504000 c0000001fecef848 c000000000c94d48 c000000000ccf000 GPR28: c0000001fc522090 0000000000000010 c0000001fecef848 c0000001fed7fae0 [ 0.100293] NIP [c0000000000b7a64] .get_group+0x84/0xc4 [ 0.100307] LR [c0000000000b7a40] .get_group+0x60/0xc4 [ 0.100318] Call Trace: [ 0.100332] [c0000001fed7f9e0] [c0000000000dbce4] .lock_is_held+0xa8/0xd0 (unreliable) [ 0.100354] [c0000001fed7fa70] [c0000000000bf62c] .build_sched_domains+0x728/0xd14 [ 0.100375] [c0000001fed7fbe0] [c000000000af67bc] .sched_init_smp+0x4fc/0x654 [ 0.100394] [c0000001fed7fce0] [c000000000adce24] .kernel_init_freeable+0x17c/0x30c [ 0.100413] [c0000001fed7fdb0] [c00000000000ba08] .kernel_init+0x24/0x12c [ 0.100431] [c0000001fed7fe30] [c000000000009f74] .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x68 [ 0.100445] Instruction dump: [ 0.100456] 38800010 38a00000 4838e3f5 60000000 7c6307b4 2fbf0000 419e0040 3d220001 [ 0.100496] 78601f24 39491590 e93e0008 7d6a002a <7d69582a> f97f0000 7d4a002a e93e0010 [ 0.100559] ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]--- This patch tries to move the sibling maps updating before notify_cpu_starting() and cpu online, and a write barrier there to make sure sibling maps are updated before active and online mask. Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
cuda_init_via() is called from find_via_cuda() only, which is __init. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Paul Gortmaker authored
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the powerpc uses of the __cpuinit macros. There are no __CPUINIT users in assembly files in powerpc. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Joe Perches authored
This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Joe Perches authored
This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
pci_iommu_init() and pci_direct_iommu_init() are not referenced anywhere, so remove them. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Kevin Hao authored
For an unknown relocation type since the value of r4 is just the 8bit relocation type, the sum of r4 and r7 may yield an invalid memory address. For example: In normal case: r4 = c00xxxxx r7 = 40000000 r4 + r7 = 000xxxxx For an unknown relocation type: r4 = 000000xx r7 = 40000000 r4 + r7 = 400000xx 400000xx is an invalid memory address for a board which has just 512M memory. And for operations such as dcbst or icbi may cause bus error for an invalid memory address on some platforms and then cause the board reset. So we should skip the flush/invalidate the d/icache for an unknown relocation type. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aaro Koskinen authored
With pm81/pm91/pm121, when the overtemperature state is entered, and when it remains on after skipped ticks, the driver will try to leave it too soon (immediately on the next tick). This is because the active FAILURE_OVERTEMP state is not visible in "new_failure" variable of the current tick. Furthermore, the driver will keep trying to clear condition in subsequent ticks as FAILURE_OVERTEMP remains set in the "last_failure" variable. These will start to trigger WARNINGS from windfarm core: [ 100.082735] windfarm: Clamping CPU frequency to minimum ! [ 100.108132] windfarm: Overtemp condition detected ! [ 101.952908] windfarm: Overtemp condition cleared ! [...] [ 102.980388] WARNING: at drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c:463 [...] [ 103.982227] WARNING: at drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c:463 [...] [ 105.030494] WARNING: at drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c:463 [...] [ 105.973666] WARNING: at drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c:463 [...] [ 106.977913] WARNING: at drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c:463 Fix by adding a helper global variable. We leave the overtemp state only after all failure bits have been cleared. I saw this error on iMac G5 iSight (pm121). Also pm81/pm91 are fixed based on the observation that these are almost identical/copy-pasted code. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
Currently, we're using the combo (PCI bus + devfn) in the PCI config accessors and PCI config accessors in EEH depends on them. However, it's not safe to refer the PCI bus which might have been removed during hotplug. So we're using device node in the PCI config accessors and the corresponding backends just reuse them. The patch also fix one potential risk: We possiblly have frozen PE during the early PCI probe time, but we haven't setup the PE mapping yet. So the errors should be counted to PE#0. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
The patch is for avoiding following build warnings: The function .pnv_pci_ioda_fixup() references the function __init .eeh_init(). This is often because .pnv_pci_ioda_fixup lacks a __init The function .pnv_pci_ioda_fixup() references the function __init .eeh_addr_cache_build(). This is often because .pnv_pci_ioda_fixup lacks a __init Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
We needn't the the whole backtrace other than one-line message in the error reporting interrupt handler. For errors triggered by access PCI config space or MMIO, we replace "WARN(1, ...)" with pr_err() and dump_stack(). The patch also adds more output messages to indicate what EEH core is doing. Besides, some printk() are replaced with pr_warning(). Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
On the PowerNV platform, the EEH address cache isn't built correctly because we skipped the EEH devices without binding PE. The patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
We have 2 fields in "struct pnv_phb" to trace the states. The patch replace the fields with one and introduces flags for that. The patch doesn't impact the logic. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
After reset (e.g. complete reset) in order to bring the fenced PHB back, the PCIe link might not be ready yet. The patch intends to make sure the PCIe link is ready before accessing its subordinate PCI devices. The patch also fixes that wrong values restored to PCI_COMMAND register for PCI bridges. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
When the PHB is fenced or dead, it's pointless to collect the data from PCI config space of subordinate PCI devices since it should return 0xFF's. The patch also fixes overwritten buffer while getting PCI config data. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 30 Jun, 2013 3 commits
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Michael Neuling authored
When we treclaim and trecheckpoint there's an unavoidable period when r1 will not be a valid kernel stack pointer. This patch clears the MSR recoverable interrupt (RI) bit over these regions to indicate we have an invalid kernel stack pointer. For treclaim, the region over which we clear MSR RI is larger than required to avoid the need for an extra costly mtmsrd. Thanks to Paulus for suggesting this change. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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James Yang authored
String instruction emulation would erroneously result in a segfault if the upper bits of the EA are set and is so high that it fails access check. Truncate the EA to 32 bits if the process is 32-bit. Signed-off-by: James Yang <James.Yang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Sebastien Bessiere authored
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Bessiere <sebastien.bessiere@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 25 Jun, 2013 8 commits
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Currently, HPAGE_PMD_* constans rely on PMD_SHIFT regardless of CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE. PMD_SHIFT is not defined everywhere (e.g. arm nommu case). It means we can't use anything like this in generic code: if (PageTransHuge(page)) zero_huge_user(page, 0, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); else clear_highpage(page); For !THP case, PageTransHuge() is 0 and compiler can eliminate zero_huge_user() call. But it still need to be valid C expression, means HPAGE_PMD_SIZE has to expand to something compiler can understand. Previously, HPAGE_PMD_* were defined to BUILD_BUG() for !THP. Let's come back to it. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
To replace down() with down_interrutible() to avoid following warning: [c00000007ba7b710] [c000000000014410] .__switch_to+0x1b0/0x380 [c00000007ba7b7c0] [c0000000007b408c] .__schedule+0x3ec/0x970 [c00000007ba7ba50] [c0000000007b1f24] .schedule_timeout+0x1a4/0x2b0 [c00000007ba7bb30] [c0000000007b34a4] .__down+0xa4/0x104 [c00000007ba7bbf0] [c0000000000b9230] .down+0x60/0x70 [c00000007ba7bc80] [c0000000000336d0] .eeh_event_handler+0x70/0x190 [c00000007ba7bd30] [c0000000000b1a58] .kthread+0xe8/0xf0 [c00000007ba7be30] [c00000000000a05c] .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x8 This also avoids keeping the load average up while doing nothing. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
Originally, eeh_mutex was introduced to protect the PE hierarchy tree and the attached EEH devices because EEH core was possiblly running with multiple threads to access the PE hierarchy tree. However, we now have only one kthread in EEH core. So we needn't the eeh_mutex and just remove it. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nathan Fontenot authored
Building with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE disabled causes the following build wearnings; powerpc/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h: In function ‘__hash_page_thp’: powerpc/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:354: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void This patch adds a return -1 to the static inline for __hash_page_thp() to correct the warnings. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aruna Balakrishnaiah authored
Since now we have pstore support for nvram in pseries, enable it in the default config. With this config option enabled, pstore infra-structure will be used to read/write the messages from/to nvram. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Neuling authored
In 9422de3e "powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers" we changed the way we mark extraneous irqs with this: - info->extraneous_interrupt = !((bp->attr.bp_addr <= dar) && - (dar - bp->attr.bp_addr < bp->attr.bp_len)); + if (!((bp->attr.bp_addr <= dar) && + (dar - bp->attr.bp_addr < bp->attr.bp_len))) + info->type |= HW_BRK_TYPE_EXTRANEOUS_IRQ; Unfortunately this is bogus as it never clears extraneous IRQ if it's already set. This correctly clears extraneous IRQ before possibly setting it. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Neuling authored
The smallest match region for both the DABR and DAWR is 8 bytes, so the kernel needs to filter matches when users want to look at regions smaller than this. Currently we set the length of PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT breakpoints to 8. This is wrong as in exact mode we should only match on 1 address, hence the length should be 1. This ensures that the kernel will filter out any exact mode hardware breakpoint matches on any addresses other than the requested one. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 21 Jun, 2013 5 commits
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Hugepage invalidate involves invalidating multiple hpte entries. Optimize the operation using H_BULK_REMOVE on lpar platforms. On native, reduce the number of tlb flush. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
We enable only if the we support 16MB page size. Reviewed-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
We find all the overlapping vma and mark them such that we don't allocate hugepage in that range. Also we split existing huge page so that the normal page hash can be invalidated and new page faulted in with new protection bits. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
With THP we set pmd to none, before we do pte_clear. Hence we can't walk page table to get the pte lock ptr and verify whether it is locked. THP do take pte lock before calling pte_clear. So we don't change the locking rules here. It is that we can't use page table walking to check whether pte locks are held with THP. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
GCC is very likely to read the pagetables just once and cache them in the local stack or in a register, but it is can also decide to re-read the pagetables. The problem is that the pagetable in those places can change from under gcc. With THP/hugetlbfs the pmd (and pgd for hugetlbfs giga pages) can change under gup_fast. The pages won't be freed untill we finish gup fast because we have irq disabled and we free these pages via rcu callback. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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