Adds support for page coalescing, which is a feature on IBM Power servers which allows for coalescing identical pages between logical partitions. Hint text pages as coalesce candidates, since they are the most likely pages to be able to be coalesced between partitions. This patch also exports some page coalescing statistics available from firmware via lparcfg. [BenH: Moved a couple of things around to fix compile problems] Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Adds the ability to print decimal numbers and adds some more format string variants Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently we look pretty stupid when printing out a bunch of things in prom_init.c. eg. Max number of cores passed to firmware: 0x0000000000000080 So I've change this to print in decimal: Max number of cores passed to firmware: 128 (NR_CPUS = 256) This required adding a prom_print_dec() function and changing some prom_printk() calls from %x to %lu. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If we configure with CONFIG_SMP=n or set NR_CPUS less than the number of SMT threads we will set the max cores property to 0 in the ibm,client-architecture-support structure. On new versions of firmware that understand this property it obliges and terminates our partition. Use DIV_ROUND_UP so we handle not only the CONFIG_SMP=n case but also the case where NR_CPUS isn't a multiple of the number of SMT threads. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Firmware changed the way it represents memory and cpu affinity on POWER7. Unfortunately the old method now caps the topology to work around issues with legacy operating systems. For Linux to get the correct topology we need to use the new form 1 affinity information. We set the form 1 field in the client architecture, and if we see "1" in the ibm,associativity-form property firmware supports form 1 affinity and we should look at the first field in the ibm,associativity-reference-points array. If not we use the second field as we always have. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Updated variant of a patch by Joel Schopp. The field containing the number of supported cores which we pass to firmware via the ibm,client-architecture call was set by a previous patch statically as high as is possible (NR_CPUS). However, that value isn't quite right for a system that supports multiple threads per core, thus permitting the firmware to assign more cores to a Linux partition than it can really cope with. This patch improves it by using the device-tree to determine the number of threads supported by the processors in order to adjust the value passed to firmware. Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds 2 fields to the ibm_architecture_vec array. The first of these fields indicates the number of cores which Linux can boot. It does not account for SMT, so it may result in cpus assigned to Linux which cannot be booted. A second patch follows that dynamically updates this for SMT. The second field just indicates that our OS is Linux, and not another OS. The system may or may not use this hint to performance tune settings for Linux. Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On machines without the ibm,client-architecture-support call we were missing a newline. We may as well print the full name in all its glory too - its ibm,client-architecture-support, not ibm,client-architecture as I mistakenly wrote (a name only an IBM architect could love). For my penance I will write out ibm,client-architecture-support 100 times. Before: Calling ibm,client-architecture...command line: root=/dev/sda6 console=hvc0 quiet After: Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... not implemented command line: root=/dev/sda6 console=hvc0 Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Evaluate mem kernel parameter for early memory allocations. If mem is set no allocation in the region above the given boundary is allowed. The current code doesn't take care about this and allocate memory above the given mem boundary. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Those definitions are currently declared extern in the .c file where they are used, move them to a header file instead. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>