linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm, branch linux-2.6.33.y

perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing

2011-03-21T19:45:51+00:00

commit 0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 upstream.

Events on POWER7 can roll back if a speculative event doesn't
eventually complete. Unfortunately in some rare cases they will
raise a performance monitor exception. We need to catch this to
ensure we reset the PMC. In all cases the PMC will be 256 or less
cycles from overflow.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <20110309143842.6c22845e@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/pseries: Add hcall to read 4 ptes at a time in real mode

2011-03-21T19:45:32+00:00

commit f90ece28c1f5b3ec13fe481406857fe92f4bc7d1 upstream.

This adds plpar_pte_read_4_raw() which can be used read 4 PTEs from
PHYP at a time, while in real mode.

It also creates a new hcall9 which can be used in real mode.  It's the
same as plpar_hcall9 but minus the tracing hcall statistics which may
require variables outside the RMO.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh babulal 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()

2011-03-21T19:44:13+00:00

commit c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 upstream.

compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area.  A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.

This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.

This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures.  This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.

Reported-by: Ben Hawkes 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/cpm: Reintroduce global spi_pram struct (fixes build issue)

2010-08-02T17:26:39+00:00

commit 56825c88ff438f4dbb51a44591cc29e707fe783a upstream.

spi_t was removed in commit 644b2a680ccc51a9ec4d6beb12e9d47d2dee98e2
("powerpc/cpm: Remove SPI defines and spi structs"), the commit assumed
that spi_t isn't used anywhere outside of the spi_mpc8xxx driver. But
it appears that the struct is needed for micropatch code. So, let's
reintroduce the struct.

Fixes the following build issue:

    CC      arch/powerpc/sysdev/micropatch.o
  micropatch.c: In function 'cpm_load_patch':
  micropatch.c:629: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
  micropatch.c:629: error: 'spp' undeclared (first use in this function)
  micropatch.c:629: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  micropatch.c:629: error: for each function it appears in.)

Reported-by: LEROY Christophe 
Reported-by: Tony Breeds 
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/perf_event: Fix oops due to perf_event_do_pending call

2010-05-26T21:32:07+00:00

commit 0fe1ac48bef018bed896307cd12f6ca9b5e704ab upstream.

Anton Blanchard found that large POWER systems would occasionally
crash in the exception exit path when profiling with perf_events.
The symptom was that an interrupt would occur late in the exit path
when the MSR[RI] (recoverable interrupt) bit was clear.  Interrupts
should be hard-disabled at this point but they were enabled.  Because
the interrupt was not recoverable the system panicked.

The reason is that the exception exit path was calling
perf_event_do_pending after hard-disabling interrupts, and
perf_event_do_pending will re-enable interrupts.

The simplest and cleanest fix for this is to use the same mechanism
that 32-bit powerpc does, namely to cause a self-IPI by setting the
decrementer to 1.  This means we can remove the tests in the exception
exit path and raw_local_irq_restore.

This also makes sure that the call to perf_event_do_pending from
timer_interrupt() happens within irq_enter/irq_exit.  (Note that
calling perf_event_do_pending from timer_interrupt does not mean that
there is a possible 1/HZ latency; setting the decrementer to 1 ensures
that the timer interrupt will happen immediately, i.e. within one
timebase tick, which is a few nanoseconds or 10s of nanoseconds.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: TIF_ABI_PENDING bit removal

2010-02-01T03:00:30+00:00

Here are the powerpc bits to remove TIF_ABI_PENDING now that
set_personality() is called at the appropriate place in exec.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: cpumask_of_node() should handle -1 as a node

2010-01-15T02:20:08+00:00

pcibus_to_node can return -1 if we cannot determine which node a pci bus
is on. If passed -1, cpumask_of_node will negatively index the lookup array
and pull in random data:

# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpus
00000000,00000003,00000000,00000000
# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpulist
64-65

Change cpumask_of_node to check for -1 and return cpu_all_mask in this
case:

# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpus
ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff
# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpulist
0-127

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge commit 'kumar/next' into merge

2009-12-20T22:30:42+00:00

powerpc: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()

2009-12-18T03:54:27+00:00

Use the new unreachable() macro instead of for(;;);

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
CC: Paul Mackerras 
CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild

2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00

* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)