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<title>Merge branch 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-08-05T22:57:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-05T22:57:35+00:00</published>
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* 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (63 commits)
  of/platform: Register of_platform_drivers with an "of:" prefix
  of/address: Clean up function declarations
  of/spi: call of_register_spi_devices() from spi core code
  of: Provide default of_node_to_nid() implementation.
  of/device: Make of_device_make_bus_id() usable by other code.
  of/irq: Fix endian issues in parsing interrupt specifiers
  of: Fix phandle endian issues
  of/flattree: fix of_flat_dt_is_compatible() to match the full compatible string
  of: remove of_default_bus_ids
  of: make of_find_device_by_node generic
  microblaze: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
  sparc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
  powerpc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
  of/device: Replace of_device with platform_device in includes and core code
  of/device: Protect against binding of_platform_drivers to non-OF devices
  of: remove asm/of_device.h
  of: remove asm/of_platform.h
  of/platform: remove all of_bus_type and of_platform_bus_type references
  of: Merge of_platform_bus_type with platform_bus_type
  drivercore/of: Add OF style matching to platform bus
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/microblaze/kernel/Makefile due to just
some obj-y removals by the devicetree branch, while the microblaze
updates added a new file.
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* 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (63 commits)
  of/platform: Register of_platform_drivers with an "of:" prefix
  of/address: Clean up function declarations
  of/spi: call of_register_spi_devices() from spi core code
  of: Provide default of_node_to_nid() implementation.
  of/device: Make of_device_make_bus_id() usable by other code.
  of/irq: Fix endian issues in parsing interrupt specifiers
  of: Fix phandle endian issues
  of/flattree: fix of_flat_dt_is_compatible() to match the full compatible string
  of: remove of_default_bus_ids
  of: make of_find_device_by_node generic
  microblaze: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
  sparc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
  powerpc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
  of/device: Replace of_device with platform_device in includes and core code
  of/device: Protect against binding of_platform_drivers to non-OF devices
  of: remove asm/of_device.h
  of: remove asm/of_platform.h
  of/platform: remove all of_bus_type and of_platform_bus_type references
  of: Merge of_platform_bus_type with platform_bus_type
  drivercore/of: Add OF style matching to platform bus
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/microblaze/kernel/Makefile due to just
some obj-y removals by the devicetree branch, while the microblaze
updates added a new file.
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e: Add generic 64-bit idle powersave support</title>
<updated>2010-07-14T04:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-14T04:12:16+00:00</published>
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We use a similar technique to ppc32: We set a thread local flag
to indicate that we are about to enter or have entered the stop
state, and have fixup code in the async interrupt entry code that
reacts to this flag to make us return to a different location
(sets NIP to LINK in our case).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
--
v2. Fix lockdep bug
    Re-mask interrupts when coming back from idle
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We use a similar technique to ppc32: We set a thread local flag
to indicate that we are about to enter or have entered the stop
state, and have fixup code in the async interrupt entry code that
reacts to this flag to make us return to a different location
(sets NIP to LINK in our case).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
--
v2. Fix lockdep bug
    Re-mask interrupts when coming back from idle
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<title>powerpc/book3e: Hookup doorbells exceptions on 64-bit Book3E</title>
<updated>2010-07-09T06:11:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-09T05:31:28+00:00</published>
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Note that critical doorbells are an unimplemented stub just like
other critical or machine check handlers, since we haven't done
support for "levelled" exceptions yet.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Note that critical doorbells are an unimplemented stub just like
other critical or machine check handlers, since we haven't done
support for "levelled" exceptions yet.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>of: Merge of_device_alloc() and of_device_make_bus_id()</title>
<updated>2010-07-05T22:14:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grant Likely</name>
<email>grant.likely@secretlab.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-08T13:48:14+00:00</published>
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This patch merges the common routines of_device_alloc() and
of_device_make_bus_id() from powerpc and microblaze.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
CC: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
CC: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
CC: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
CC: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
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This patch merges the common routines of_device_alloc() and
of_device_make_bus_id() from powerpc and microblaze.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
CC: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
CC: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
CC: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
CC: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
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<entry>
<title>powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors</title>
<updated>2010-06-22T09:40:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>K.Prasad</name>
<email>prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-15T06:05:19+00:00</published>
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Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC
64-bit server (Book III S) processors.  This allows access to a
given location to be used as an event that can be counted or
profiled by the perf_events subsystem.

This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can
also be used for process debugging via ptrace.  When perf_event
hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem
manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then
creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint.

[Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt; to
- emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the
  per-task breakpoints
- perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through
  arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint()
]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC
64-bit server (Book III S) processors.  This allows access to a
given location to be used as an event that can be counted or
profiled by the perf_events subsystem.

This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can
also be used for process debugging via ptrace.  When perf_event
hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem
manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then
creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint.

[Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt; to
- emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the
  per-task breakpoints
- perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through
  arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint()
]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/fsl-booke: Add hibernation support for FSL BookE processors</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T12:41:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Vorontsov</name>
<email>avorontsov@mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-17T18:56:52+00:00</published>
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This is started as swsusp_32.S modifications, but the amount of #ifdefs
made the whole file horribly unreadable, so let's put the support into
its own separate file.

The code should be relatively easy to modify to support 44x BookEs as
well, but since I don't have any 44x to test, let's confine the code to
FSL BookE. (The only FSL-specific part so far is 'flush_dcache_L1'.)

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;avorontsov@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This is started as swsusp_32.S modifications, but the amount of #ifdefs
made the whole file horribly unreadable, so let's put the support into
its own separate file.

The code should be relatively easy to modify to support 44x BookEs as
well, but since I don't have any 44x to test, let's confine the code to
FSL BookE. (The only FSL-specific part so far is 'flush_dcache_L1'.)

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;avorontsov@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: e500 support</title>
<updated>2010-03-05T09:04:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T00:09:45+00:00</published>
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This implements perf_event support for the Freescale embedded performance
monitor, based on the existing perf_event.c that supports server/classic
chips.

Some limitations:
- Performance monitor interrupts are regular EE interrupts, and thus you
  can't profile places with interrupts disabled.  We may want to implement
  soft IRQ-disabling, with perfmon interrupts exempted and treated as NMIs.
- When trying to schedule multiple event groups at once, and using
  restricted events, situations could arise where scheduling fails even
  though it would be possible.  Consider three groups, each with two events.
  One group has restricted events, the others don't.  The two non-restricted
  groups are scheduled, then one is removed, which happens to occupy the two
  counters that can't do restricted events.  The remaining non-restricted
  group will not be moved to the non-restricted-capable counters to make
  room if the restricted group tries to be scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This implements perf_event support for the Freescale embedded performance
monitor, based on the existing perf_event.c that supports server/classic
chips.

Some limitations:
- Performance monitor interrupts are regular EE interrupts, and thus you
  can't profile places with interrupts disabled.  We may want to implement
  soft IRQ-disabling, with perfmon interrupts exempted and treated as NMIs.
- When trying to schedule multiple event groups at once, and using
  restricted events, situations could arise where scheduling fails even
  though it would be possible.  Consider three groups, each with two events.
  One group has restricted events, the others don't.  The two non-restricted
  groups are scheduled, then one is removed, which happens to occupy the two
  counters that can't do restricted events.  The remaining non-restricted
  group will not be moved to the non-restricted-capable counters to make
  room if the restricted group tries to be scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Build callchain code regardless of hardware event support.</title>
<updated>2010-03-04T16:46:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T00:04:33+00:00</published>
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It's also useful for software events, as well as future support for
other types of hardware counters.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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It's also useful for software events, as well as future support for
other types of hardware counters.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/chrp: Use the same RTAS daemon as pSeries</title>
<updated>2009-10-30T06:20:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T19:30:05+00:00</published>
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The CHRP code has some fishy timer based code to scan the RTAS event
log, which uses a 1KB stack buffer and doesn't even use the results.

The pSeries code as a nicer daemon that allows userspace to read the
event log and basically uses the same RTAS interface

This patch moves rtasd.c out of platform/pseries and makes it usable
by CHRP, after removing the old crufty event log mechanism in there.

The nvram logging part of the daemon is still only available on 64-bit
since the underlying nvram management routines aren't currently shared.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The CHRP code has some fishy timer based code to scan the RTAS event
log, which uses a 1KB stack buffer and doesn't even use the results.

The pSeries code as a nicer daemon that allows userspace to read the
event log and basically uses the same RTAS interface

This patch moves rtasd.c out of platform/pseries and makes it usable
by CHRP, after removing the old crufty event log mechanism in there.

The nvram logging part of the daemon is still only available on 64-bit
since the underlying nvram management routines aren't currently shared.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move /proc/ppc64 to /proc/powerpc and add symlink</title>
<updated>2009-10-30T06:20:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T19:29:13+00:00</published>
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Some of the stuff in /proc/ppc64 such as the RTAS bits are actually
useful to some 32-bit platforms. Rename the file, and create a
symlink on 64-bit for backward compatibility

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Some of the stuff in /proc/ppc64 such as the RTAS bits are actually
useful to some 32-bit platforms. Rename the file, and create a
symlink on 64-bit for backward compatibility

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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