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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T23:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T23:17:30+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
  faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
  guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
  and fixes.  Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
  update.

  Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
  that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
  others are true pulls.  In either case the signoffs should be correct
  now."

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.

I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
  KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
  KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
  KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
  KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
  KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
  KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
  KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
  KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
  KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
  KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  ...
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Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
  faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
  guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
  and fixes.  Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
  update.

  Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
  that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
  others are true pulls.  In either case the signoffs should be correct
  now."

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.

I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
  KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
  KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
  KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
  KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
  KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
  KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
  KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
  KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
  KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
  KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T17:59:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T17:59:07+00:00</published>
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Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
  the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
  arch_dup_task_struct().

  It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
  (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
  avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."

Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
  x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
  coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
  fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
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Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
  the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
  arch_dup_task_struct().

  It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
  (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
  avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."

Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
  x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
  coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
  fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T22:16:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T22:03:51+00:00</published>
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Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.

Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.chen@sunplusct.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.

Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.chen@sunplusct.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove unused cpu_idle_wait()</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T10:35:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-07T17:59:50+00:00</published>
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cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
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cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: booke: category E.HV (GS-mode) support</title>
<updated>2012-04-08T09:51:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-20T15:34:43+00:00</published>
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Chips such as e500mc that implement category E.HV in Power ISA 2.06
provide hardware virtualization features, including a new MSR mode for
guest state.  The guest OS can perform many operations without trapping
into the hypervisor, including transitions to and from guest userspace.

Since we can use SRR1[GS] to reliably tell whether an exception came from
guest state, instead of messing around with IVPR, we use DO_KVM similarly
to book3s.

Current issues include:
 - Machine checks from guest state are not routed to the host handler.
 - The guest can cause a host oops by executing an emulated instruction
   in a page that lacks read permission.  Existing e500/4xx support has
   the same problem.

Includes work by Ashish Kalra &lt;Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com&gt;,
Varun Sethi &lt;Varun.Sethi@freescale.com&gt;, and
Liu Yu &lt;yu.liu@freescale.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
[agraf: remove pt_regs usage]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;

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Chips such as e500mc that implement category E.HV in Power ISA 2.06
provide hardware virtualization features, including a new MSR mode for
guest state.  The guest OS can perform many operations without trapping
into the hypervisor, including transitions to and from guest userspace.

Since we can use SRR1[GS] to reliably tell whether an exception came from
guest state, instead of messing around with IVPR, we use DO_KVM similarly
to book3s.

Current issues include:
 - Machine checks from guest state are not routed to the host handler.
 - The guest can cause a host oops by executing an emulated instruction
   in a page that lacks read permission.  Existing e500/4xx support has
   the same problem.

Includes work by Ashish Kalra &lt;Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com&gt;,
Varun Sethi &lt;Varun.Sethi@freescale.com&gt;, and
Liu Yu &lt;yu.liu@freescale.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
[agraf: remove pt_regs usage]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</published>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cpuidle: Handle power_save=off</title>
<updated>2011-12-08T02:57:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepthi Dharwar</name>
<email>deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-30T02:47:03+00:00</published>
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This patch makes pseries_idle_driver not to be registered when
power_save=off kernel boot option is specified. The
cpuidle_disable variable used here is similar to
its usage on x86. If cpuidle_disable is set then
sysfs entries for cpuidle framework are not created
and the required drivers are not loaded.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta &lt;g.trinabh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj &lt;arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This patch makes pseries_idle_driver not to be registered when
power_save=off kernel boot option is specified. The
cpuidle_disable variable used here is similar to
its usage on x86. If cpuidle_disable is set then
sysfs entries for cpuidle framework are not created
and the required drivers are not loaded.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta &lt;g.trinabh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj &lt;arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow switching of idle routines</title>
<updated>2011-12-08T02:54:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepthi Dharwar</name>
<email>deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-30T02:46:31+00:00</published>
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This patch provides cpu_idle_wait() routine for the powerpc
platform which is required by the cpuidle subsystem. This
routine is required to change the idle handler on SMP systems.
The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
but the powerpc implementation is different.

cpuidle_disable variable is to enable/disable cpuidle
framework if power_save option is set during the boot
time.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta &lt;g.trinabh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj &lt;arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This patch provides cpu_idle_wait() routine for the powerpc
platform which is required by the cpuidle subsystem. This
routine is required to change the idle handler on SMP systems.
The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
but the powerpc implementation is different.

cpuidle_disable variable is to enable/disable cpuidle
framework if power_save option is set during the boot
time.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta &lt;g.trinabh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj &lt;arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/85xx: Save scratch registers to thread info instead of using SPRGs.</title>
<updated>2011-06-23T02:44:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashish Kalra</name>
<email>Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-22T21:48:27+00:00</published>
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We expect this is actually faster, and we end up needing more space than we
can get from the SPRGs in some instances.  This is also useful when running
as a guest OS - SPRGs4-7 do not have guest versions.

8 slots are allocated in thread_info for this even though we only actually
use 4 of them - this allows space for future code to have more scratch
space (and we know we'll need it for things like hugetlb).

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce &lt;beckyb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We expect this is actually faster, and we end up needing more space than we
can get from the SPRGs in some instances.  This is also useful when running
as a guest OS - SPRGs4-7 do not have guest versions.

8 slots are allocated in thread_info for this even though we only actually
use 4 of them - this allows space for future code to have more scratch
space (and we know we'll need it for things like hugetlb).

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce &lt;beckyb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Per process DSCR + some fixes (try#4)</title>
<updated>2011-04-27T04:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Kardashevskiy</name>
<email>aik@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-02T15:18:48+00:00</published>
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The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some
server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch
of data streams.

This patch allows the value to be specified per thread by emulating
the corresponding mfspr and mtspr instructions. Children of such
threads inherit the value. Other threads use a default value that
can be specified in sysfs - /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default.

If a thread starts with non default value in the sysfs entry,
all children threads inherit this non default value even if
the sysfs value is changed later.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some
server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch
of data streams.

This patch allows the value to be specified per thread by emulating
the corresponding mfspr and mtspr instructions. Children of such
threads inherit the value. Other threads use a default value that
can be specified in sysfs - /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default.

If a thread starts with non default value in the sysfs entry,
all children threads inherit this non default value even if
the sysfs value is changed later.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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