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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Make enter_rtas() private</title>
<updated>2015-12-17T11:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-24T11:26:12+00:00</published>
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There are no longer any users of enter_rtas() outside of rtas.c, so make
it "private", by moving the declaration inside rtas.c. Hopefully this
will encourage people to use one of the wrappers which takes the sharp
edges off the RTAS calling sequence.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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There are no longer any users of enter_rtas() outside of rtas.c, so make
it "private", by moving the declaration inside rtas.c. Hopefully this
will encourage people to use one of the wrappers which takes the sharp
edges off the RTAS calling sequence.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Use rtas_call_unlocked() in call_rtas_display_status()</title>
<updated>2015-12-17T11:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-24T11:26:11+00:00</published>
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Although call_rtas_display_status() does actually want to use the
regular RTAS locking, it doesn't want the extra logic that is in
rtas_call(), so currently it open codes the logic.

Instead we can use rtas_call_unlocked(), after taking the RTAS lock.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Although call_rtas_display_status() does actually want to use the
regular RTAS locking, it doesn't want the extra logic that is in
rtas_call(), so currently it open codes the logic.

Instead we can use rtas_call_unlocked(), after taking the RTAS lock.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Add rtas_call_unlocked()</title>
<updated>2015-12-17T11:40:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-16T10:01:42+00:00</published>
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Most users of RTAS (Run-Time Abstraction Services) use rtas_call(),
which deals with locking as well as endian handling.

However we have two users outside of rtas.c that can't use rtas_call()
because they have different locking requirements.

The hotplug CPU code can't take the RTAS lock because the CPU would go
offline with the lock held and no other CPUs would be able to call RTAS
until the CPU came back online.

The xmon code doesn't want to take the lock because it would risk dead
locking when we are trying to recover from a crash.

Both sites required multiple patches when we added little endian
support, proving that programmers can't do endian right.

Although that ship has sailed, we can still clean the code up by
providing an unlocked version of rtas_call() which avoids the need to
open code the logic elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Most users of RTAS (Run-Time Abstraction Services) use rtas_call(),
which deals with locking as well as endian handling.

However we have two users outside of rtas.c that can't use rtas_call()
because they have different locking requirements.

The hotplug CPU code can't take the RTAS lock because the CPU would go
offline with the lock held and no other CPUs would be able to call RTAS
until the CPU came back online.

The xmon code doesn't want to take the lock because it would risk dead
locking when we are trying to recover from a crash.

Both sites required multiple patches when we added little endian
support, proving that programmers can't do endian right.

Although that ship has sailed, we can still clean the code up by
providing an unlocked version of rtas_call() which avoids the need to
open code the logic elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T00:03:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasant Hegde</name>
<email>hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-16T10:23:29+00:00</published>
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Currently we do not validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas(). This
leads to a kernel oops when user space calls rtas system call on a powernv
platform (see below). This patch adds code to validate rtas.entry before
making enter_rtas() call.

  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
  SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA PowerNV
  task: c000000004294b80 ti: c0000007e1a78000 task.ti: c0000007e1a78000
  NIP: 0000000000000000 LR: 0000000000009c14 CTR: c000000000423140
  REGS: c0000007e1a7b920 TRAP: 0e40   Not tainted  (3.18.17-340.el7_1.pkvm3_1_0.2400.1.ppc64le)
  MSR: 1000000000081000 &lt;HV,ME&gt;  CR: 00000000  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c000000000009c0c SOFTE: 0
  NIP [0000000000000000]           (null)
  LR [0000000000009c14] 0x9c14
  Call Trace:
  [c0000007e1a7bba0] [c00000000041a7f4] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x54/0x110 (unreliable)
  [c0000007e1a7bd80] [c00000000002ddc0] ppc_rtas+0x150/0x2d0
  [c0000007e1a7be30] [c000000000009358] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+
Fixes: 55190f88789a ("powerpc: Add skeleton PowerNV platform")
Reported-by: NAGESWARA R. SASTRY &lt;nasastry@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde &lt;hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Reword change log, trim oops, and add stable + fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently we do not validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas(). This
leads to a kernel oops when user space calls rtas system call on a powernv
platform (see below). This patch adds code to validate rtas.entry before
making enter_rtas() call.

  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
  SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA PowerNV
  task: c000000004294b80 ti: c0000007e1a78000 task.ti: c0000007e1a78000
  NIP: 0000000000000000 LR: 0000000000009c14 CTR: c000000000423140
  REGS: c0000007e1a7b920 TRAP: 0e40   Not tainted  (3.18.17-340.el7_1.pkvm3_1_0.2400.1.ppc64le)
  MSR: 1000000000081000 &lt;HV,ME&gt;  CR: 00000000  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c000000000009c0c SOFTE: 0
  NIP [0000000000000000]           (null)
  LR [0000000000009c14] 0x9c14
  Call Trace:
  [c0000007e1a7bba0] [c00000000041a7f4] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x54/0x110 (unreliable)
  [c0000007e1a7bd80] [c00000000002ddc0] ppc_rtas+0x150/0x2d0
  [c0000007e1a7be30] [c000000000009358] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+
Fixes: 55190f88789a ("powerpc: Add skeleton PowerNV platform")
Reported-by: NAGESWARA R. SASTRY &lt;nasastry@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde &lt;hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Reword change log, trim oops, and add stable + fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Introduce rtas_get_sensor_fast() for IRQ handlers</title>
<updated>2015-07-23T09:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-17T10:46:58+00:00</published>
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The EPOW interrupt handler uses rtas_get_sensor(), which in turn
uses rtas_busy_delay() to wait for RTAS becoming ready in case it
is necessary. But rtas_busy_delay() is annotated with might_sleep()
and thus may not be used by interrupts handlers like the EPOW handler!
This leads to the following BUG when CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is
enabled:

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:496
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.2.0-rc2-thuth #6
 Call Trace:
 [c00000007ffe7b90] [c000000000807670] dump_stack+0xa0/0xdc (unreliable)
 [c00000007ffe7bc0] [c0000000000e1f14] ___might_sleep+0x134/0x180
 [c00000007ffe7c20] [c00000000002aec0] rtas_busy_delay+0x30/0xd0
 [c00000007ffe7c50] [c00000000002bde4] rtas_get_sensor+0x74/0xe0
 [c00000007ffe7ce0] [c000000000083264] ras_epow_interrupt+0x44/0x450
 [c00000007ffe7d90] [c000000000120260] handle_irq_event_percpu+0xa0/0x300
 [c00000007ffe7e70] [c000000000120524] handle_irq_event+0x64/0xc0
 [c00000007ffe7eb0] [c000000000124dbc] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xec/0x260
 [c00000007ffe7ef0] [c00000000011f4f0] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x80
 [c00000007ffe7f20] [c000000000010f3c] __do_irq+0x8c/0x200
 [c00000007ffe7f90] [c0000000000236cc] call_do_irq+0x14/0x24
 [c00000007e6f39e0] [c000000000011144] do_IRQ+0x94/0x110
 [c00000007e6f3a30] [c000000000002594] hardware_interrupt_common+0x114/0x180

Fix this issue by introducing a new rtas_get_sensor_fast() function
that does not use rtas_busy_delay() - and thus can only be used for
sensors that do not cause a BUSY condition - known as "fast" sensors.

The EPOW sensor is defined to be "fast" in sPAPR - mpe.

Fixes: 587f83e8dd50 ("powerpc/pseries: Use rtas_get_sensor in RAS code")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot &lt;nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The EPOW interrupt handler uses rtas_get_sensor(), which in turn
uses rtas_busy_delay() to wait for RTAS becoming ready in case it
is necessary. But rtas_busy_delay() is annotated with might_sleep()
and thus may not be used by interrupts handlers like the EPOW handler!
This leads to the following BUG when CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is
enabled:

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:496
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.2.0-rc2-thuth #6
 Call Trace:
 [c00000007ffe7b90] [c000000000807670] dump_stack+0xa0/0xdc (unreliable)
 [c00000007ffe7bc0] [c0000000000e1f14] ___might_sleep+0x134/0x180
 [c00000007ffe7c20] [c00000000002aec0] rtas_busy_delay+0x30/0xd0
 [c00000007ffe7c50] [c00000000002bde4] rtas_get_sensor+0x74/0xe0
 [c00000007ffe7ce0] [c000000000083264] ras_epow_interrupt+0x44/0x450
 [c00000007ffe7d90] [c000000000120260] handle_irq_event_percpu+0xa0/0x300
 [c00000007ffe7e70] [c000000000120524] handle_irq_event+0x64/0xc0
 [c00000007ffe7eb0] [c000000000124dbc] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xec/0x260
 [c00000007ffe7ef0] [c00000000011f4f0] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x80
 [c00000007ffe7f20] [c000000000010f3c] __do_irq+0x8c/0x200
 [c00000007ffe7f90] [c0000000000236cc] call_do_irq+0x14/0x24
 [c00000007e6f39e0] [c000000000011144] do_IRQ+0x94/0x110
 [c00000007e6f3a30] [c000000000002594] hardware_interrupt_common+0x114/0x180

Fix this issue by introducing a new rtas_get_sensor_fast() function
that does not use rtas_busy_delay() - and thus can only be used for
sensors that do not cause a BUSY condition - known as "fast" sensors.

The EPOW sensor is defined to be "fast" in sPAPR - mpe.

Fixes: 587f83e8dd50 ("powerpc/pseries: Use rtas_get_sensor in RAS code")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot &lt;nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Replace magic values with defines</title>
<updated>2015-07-23T06:27:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-22T16:56:47+00:00</published>
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rtas.h already has some nice #defines for RTAS return status
codes - let's use them instead of hard-coded "magic" values!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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rtas.h already has some nice #defines for RTAS return status
codes - let's use them instead of hard-coded "magic" values!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Replace mem_init_done with slab_is_available()</title>
<updated>2015-04-10T10:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-30T03:10:37+00:00</published>
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We have a powerpc specific global called mem_init_done which is "set on
boot once kmalloc can be called".

But that's not *quite* true. We set it at the bottom of mem_init(), and
rely on the fact that mm_init() calls kmem_cache_init() immediately
after that, and nothing is running in parallel.

So replace it with the generic and 100% correct slab_is_available().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We have a powerpc specific global called mem_init_done which is "set on
boot once kmalloc can be called".

But that's not *quite* true. We set it at the bottom of mem_init(), and
rely on the fact that mm_init() calls kmem_cache_init() immediately
after that, and nothing is running in parallel.

So replace it with the generic and 100% correct slab_is_available().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Simplify check for suspendability during suspend/migration</title>
<updated>2015-03-28T01:20:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tyrel Datwyler</name>
<email>tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-27T19:47:25+00:00</published>
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During suspend/migration operation we must wait for the VASI state reported
by the hypervisor to become Suspending prior to making the ibm,suspend-me
RTAS call. Calling routines to rtas_ibm_supend_me() pass a vasi_state variable
that exposes the VASI state to the caller. This is unnecessary as the caller
only really cares about the following three conditions; if there is an error
we should bailout, success indicating we have suspended and woken back up so
proceed to device tree update, or we are not suspendable yet so try calling
rtas_ibm_suspend_me again shortly.

This patch removes the extraneous vasi_state variable and simply uses the
return code to communicate how to proceed. We either succeed, fail, or get
-EAGAIN in which case we sleep for a second before trying to call
rtas_ibm_suspend_me again. The behaviour of ppc_rtas() remains the same,
but migrate_store() now returns the propogated error code on failure.
Previously -1 was returned from migrate_store() in the  failure case which
equates to -EPERM and was clearly wrong.

Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nathan Fontenont &lt;nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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During suspend/migration operation we must wait for the VASI state reported
by the hypervisor to become Suspending prior to making the ibm,suspend-me
RTAS call. Calling routines to rtas_ibm_supend_me() pass a vasi_state variable
that exposes the VASI state to the caller. This is unnecessary as the caller
only really cares about the following three conditions; if there is an error
we should bailout, success indicating we have suspended and woken back up so
proceed to device tree update, or we are not suspendable yet so try calling
rtas_ibm_suspend_me again shortly.

This patch removes the extraneous vasi_state variable and simply uses the
return code to communicate how to proceed. We either succeed, fail, or get
-EAGAIN in which case we sleep for a second before trying to call
rtas_ibm_suspend_me again. The behaviour of ppc_rtas() remains the same,
but migrate_store() now returns the propogated error code on failure.
Previously -1 was returned from migrate_store() in the  failure case which
equates to -EPERM and was clearly wrong.

Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nathan Fontenont &lt;nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Fix endian problems with LE migration</title>
<updated>2015-01-27T03:03:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-21T02:32:00+00:00</published>
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RTAS events require arguments be passed in big endian while hypercalls
have their arguments passed in registers and the values should therefore
be in CPU endian.

The "ibm,suspend_me" 'RTAS' call makes a sequence of hypercalls to setup
one true RTAS call. This means that "ibm,suspend_me" is handled
specially in the ppc_rtas() syscall.

The ppc_rtas() syscall has its arguments in big endian and can therefore
pass these arguments directly to the RTAS call. "ibm,suspend_me" is
handled specially from within ppc_rtas() (by calling rtas_ibm_suspend_me())
which has left an endian bug on little endian systems due to the
requirement of hypercalls. The return value from rtas_ibm_suspend_me()
gets returned in cpu endian, and is left unconverted, also a bug on
little endian systems.

rtas_ibm_suspend_me() does not actually make use of the rtas_args that
it is passed. This patch removes the convoluted use of the rtas_args
struct to pass params to rtas_ibm_suspend_me() in favour of passing what
it needs as actual arguments. This patch also ensures the two callers of
rtas_ibm_suspend_me() pass function parameters in cpu endian and in the
case of ppc_rtas(), converts the return value.

migrate_store() (the other caller of rtas_ibm_suspend_me()) is from a
sysfs file which deals with everything in cpu endian so this function
only underwent cleanup.

This patch has been tested with KVM both LE and BE and on PowerVM both
LE and BE. Under QEMU/KVM the migration happens without touching these
code pathes.

For PowerVM there is no obvious regression on BE and the LE code path
now provides the correct parameters to the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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RTAS events require arguments be passed in big endian while hypercalls
have their arguments passed in registers and the values should therefore
be in CPU endian.

The "ibm,suspend_me" 'RTAS' call makes a sequence of hypercalls to setup
one true RTAS call. This means that "ibm,suspend_me" is handled
specially in the ppc_rtas() syscall.

The ppc_rtas() syscall has its arguments in big endian and can therefore
pass these arguments directly to the RTAS call. "ibm,suspend_me" is
handled specially from within ppc_rtas() (by calling rtas_ibm_suspend_me())
which has left an endian bug on little endian systems due to the
requirement of hypercalls. The return value from rtas_ibm_suspend_me()
gets returned in cpu endian, and is left unconverted, also a bug on
little endian systems.

rtas_ibm_suspend_me() does not actually make use of the rtas_args that
it is passed. This patch removes the convoluted use of the rtas_args
struct to pass params to rtas_ibm_suspend_me() in favour of passing what
it needs as actual arguments. This patch also ensures the two callers of
rtas_ibm_suspend_me() pass function parameters in cpu endian and in the
case of ppc_rtas(), converts the return value.

migrate_store() (the other caller of rtas_ibm_suspend_me()) is from a
sysfs file which deals with everything in cpu endian so this function
only underwent cleanup.

This patch has been tested with KVM both LE and BE and on PowerVM both
LE and BE. Under QEMU/KVM the migration happens without touching these
code pathes.

For PowerVM there is no obvious regression on BE and the LE code path
now provides the correct parameters to the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Remove some old bootmem related comments</title>
<updated>2014-11-09T22:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-17T12:15:34+00:00</published>
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Now bootmem is gone from powerpc we can remove comments mentioning it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Emil Medve &lt;Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Now bootmem is gone from powerpc we can remove comments mentioning it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Emil Medve &lt;Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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