linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S, branch linux-3.13.y

powerpc: Fix fatal SLB miss when restoring PPR

2013-11-06T03:13:53+00:00

When restoring the PPR value, we incorrectly access the thread structure
at a time where MSR:RI is clear, which means we cannot recover from nested
faults. However the thread structure isn't covered by the "bolted" SLB
entries and thus accessing can fault.

This fixes it by splitting the code so that the PPR value is loaded into
a GPR before MSR:RI is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/ppc64: Remove the unneeded load of ti_flags in resume_kernel

2013-10-11T05:49:25+00:00

We already got the value of current_thread_info and ti_flags and store
them into r9 and r4 respectively before jumping to resume_kernel. So
there is no reason to reload them again.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Endian safe trampoline

2013-10-11T05:48:34+00:00

Create a trampoline that works in either endian and flips to
the expected endian. Use it for primary and secondary thread
entry as well as RTAS and OF call return.

Credit for finding the magic instruction goes to Paul Mackerras

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

powerpc: Cleanup handling of the DSCR bit in the FSCR register

2013-08-27T05:05:22+00:00

As suggested by paulus we can simplify the Data Stream Control Register
(DSCR) Facility Status and Control Register (FSCR) handling.

Firstly, we simplify the asm by using a rldimi.

Secondly, we now use the FSCR only to control the DSCR facility, rather
than both the FSCR and HFSCR.  Users will see no functional change from
this but will get a minor speedup as they will trap into the kernel only
once (rather than twice) when they first touch the DSCR.  Also, this
changes removes a bunch of ugly FTR_SECTION code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'merge' into next

2013-08-27T05:03:30+00:00

Merge stuff that already went into Linus via "merge" which
are pre-reqs for subsequent patches

powerpc: Fix little endian lppaca, slb_shadow and dtl_entry

2013-08-14T05:33:35+00:00

The lppaca, slb_shadow and dtl_entry hypervisor structures are
big endian, so we have to byte swap them in little endian builds.

LE KVM hosts will also need to be fixed but for now add an #error
to remind us.

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

powerpc/ppc64: Rename SOFT_DISABLE_INTS with RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE

2013-08-14T04:57:47+00:00

The SOFT_DISABLE_INTS seems an odd name for something that updates the
software state to be consistent with interrupts being hard disabled, so
rename SOFT_DISABLE_INTS with RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE to avoid this confusion.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Save the TAR register earlier

2013-08-09T08:07:08+00:00

This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in
__switch_to.  It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this.

We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional
memory reclaim/recheckpoint path.  We are going to do this in a subsequent
patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a
transaction.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Cc:  [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix context switch DSCR on POWER8

2013-08-09T08:07:05+00:00

POWER8 allows the DSCR to be accessed directly from userspace via a new SPR
number 0x3 (Rather than 0x11.  DSCR SPR number 0x11 is still used on POWER8 but
like POWER7, is only accessible in HV and OS modes).  Currently, we allow this
by setting H/FSCR DSCR bit on boot.

Unfortunately this doesn't work, as the kernel needs to see the DSCR change so
that it knows to no longer restore the system wide version of DSCR on context
switch (ie. to set thread.dscr_inherit).

This clears the H/FSCR DSCR bit initially.  If a process then accesses the DSCR
(via SPR 0x3), it'll trap into the kernel where we set thread.dscr_inherit in
facility_unavailable_exception().

We also change _switch() so that we set or clear the H/FSCR DSCR bit based on
the thread.dscr_inherit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Cc:  [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Restore dbcr0 on user space exit

2013-06-20T07:04:19+00:00

On BookE (Branch taken + Single Step) is as same as Branch Taken
on BookS and in Linux we simulate BookS behavior for BookE as well.
When doing so, in Branch taken handling we want to set DBCR0_IC but
we update the current->thread->dbcr0 and not DBCR0.

Now on 64bit the current->thread.dbcr0 (and other debug registers)
is synchronized ONLY on context switch flow. But after handling
Branch taken in debug exception if we return back to user space
without context switch then single stepping change (DBCR0_ICMP)
does not get written in h/w DBCR0 and Instruction Complete exception
does not happen.

This fixes using ptrace reliably on BookE-PowerPC

lmbench latency test (lat_syscall) Results are (they varies a little
on each run)

1) ./lat_syscall  /dev/shm/uImage

action:	Open	read	write	stat	fstat	null
Before:	3.8618	0.2017	0.2851	1.6789	0.2256	0.0856
After:	3.8580	0.2017	0.2851	1.6955	0.2255	0.0856

1) ./lat_syscall -P 2 -N 10  /dev/shm/uImage
action:	Open	read	write	stat	fstat	null
Before:	4.1388	0.2238	0.3066	1.7106	0.2256	0.0856
After:	4.1413	0.2236	0.3062	1.7107	0.2256	0.0856

[ Slightly modified to avoid extra branch in the fast path
  on Book3S and fix build on all non-BookE 64-bit -- BenH
]

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt