linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c, branch v3.2

powerpc: various straight conversions from module.h --> export.h

2011-10-31T23:30:44+00:00

All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

notifiers: sys: move reboot notifiers into reboot.h

2011-07-26T03:57:14+00:00

It is not necessary to share the same notifier.h.

This patch already moves register_reboot_notifier() and
unregister_reboot_notifier() from kernel/notifier.c to kernel/sys.c.

[amwang@redhat.com: make allyesconfig succeed on ppc64]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/pseries: Add page coalescing support

2011-05-04T06:02:21+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/rtas: Only sleep in rtas_busy_delay if we have useful work to do

2011-04-27T04:18:50+00:00

RTAS returns extended error codes as a hint of how long the
OS might want to wait before retrying a call. If we have nothing
else useful to do we may as well call back straight away.

This was found when testing the new dynamic dma window feature.
Firmware split the zeroing of the TCE table into 32k chunks but
returned 9901 (which is a suggested wait of 10ms). All up this took
about 10 minutes to complete since msleep is jiffies based and will
round 10ms up to 20ms.

With the patch below we take 3 seconds to complete the same test.
The hint firmware is returning in the RTAS call should definitely
be decreased, but even if we slept 1ms each iteration this would
take 32s.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Disable VPHN polling during a suspend operation

2010-12-09T04:36:30+00:00

Tie the polling mechanism into the ibm,suspend-me rtas call to
stop/restart polling before/after a suspend, hibernate, migrate,
or checkpoint restart operation. This ensures that the system has a
chance to disable the polling if the partition is migrated to a system
that does not support VPHN (and vice versa).

Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2010-10-22T04:19:54+00:00

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (71 commits)
  powerpc/44x: Update ppc44x_defconfig
  powerpc/watchdog: Make default timeout for Book-E watchdog a Kconfig option
  fsl_rio: Add comments for sRIO registers.
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add e55xx (64-bit) smp defconfig
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add p5020 DS board support
  powerpc/fsl-booke64: Use TLB CAMs to cover linear mapping on FSL 64-bit chips
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL Arch v1.0 MMU in setup_page_sizes
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL 64-bit e5500 core
  powerpc/85xx: add cache-sram support
  powerpc/85xx: add ngPIXIS FPGA device tree node to the P1022DS board
  powerpc: Fix compile error with paca code on ppc64e
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add p3041 DS board support
  oprofile/fsl emb: Don't set MSR[PMM] until after clearing the interrupt.
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add PCI device ids for P2040/P3041/P5010/P5020 QoirQ chips
  powerpc/mpc8xxx_gpio: Add support for 'qoriq-gpio' controllers
  powerpc/fsl_booke: Add support to boot from core other than 0
  powerpc/p1022: Add probing for individual DMA channels
  powerpc/fsl_soc: Search all global-utilities nodes for rstccr
  powerpc: Fix invalid page flags in create TLB CAM path for PTE_64BIT
  powerpc/mpc83xx: Support for MPC8308 P1M board
  ...

Fix up conflict with the generic irq_work changes in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c

powerpc/pseries: Export rtas_ibm_suspend_me()

2010-10-13T05:19:02+00:00

Export the rtas_ibm_suspend_me() routine.  This is needed to perform
partition migration in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc3' into x86/memblock

2010-08-31T07:45:46+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c
	mm/memblock.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

memblock: Remove rmo_size, burry it in arch/powerpc where it belongs

2010-08-05T02:56:08+00:00

The RMA (RMO is a misnomer) is a concept specific to ppc64 (in fact
server ppc64 though I hijack it on embedded ppc64 for similar purposes)
and represents the area of memory that can be accessed in real mode
(aka with MMU off), or on embedded, from the exception vectors (which
is bolted in the TLB) which pretty much boils down to the same thing.

We take that out of the generic MEMBLOCK data structure and move it into
arch/powerpc where it belongs, renaming it to "RMA" while at it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt