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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c, branch v3.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T03:20:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T07:50:47+00:00</published>
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The pseries platform code unconditionally overrides
memory_block_size_bytes regardless of the running platform.

Create a ppc_md hook that so each platform can choose to
do what it wants.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The pseries platform code unconditionally overrides
memory_block_size_bytes regardless of the running platform.

Create a ppc_md hook that so each platform can choose to
do what it wants.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix SMP issues with ppc64le ABIv2</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T00:54:06+00:00</published>
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There is no need to put a function descriptor in
__secondary_hold_spinloop. Use ppc_function_entry to get the
instruction address and put it in __secondary_hold_spinloop instead.

Also fix an issue where we assumed cur_cpu_spec held a function
descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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There is no need to put a function descriptor in
__secondary_hold_spinloop. Use ppc_function_entry to get the
instruction address and put it in __secondary_hold_spinloop instead.

Also fix an issue where we assumed cur_cpu_spec held a function
descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't try to set LPCR unless we're in hypervisor mode</title>
<updated>2014-04-13T00:58:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-11T06:43:35+00:00</published>
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Commit 8f619b5429d9 ("powerpc/ppc64: Do not turn AIL (reloc-on
interrupts) too early") added code to set the AIL bit in the LPCR
without checking whether the kernel is running in hypervisor mode.  The
result is that when the kernel is running as a guest (i.e., under
PowerKVM or PowerVM), the processor takes a privileged instruction
interrupt at that point, causing a panic.  The visible result is that
the kernel hangs after printing "returning from prom_init".

This fixes it by checking for hypervisor mode being available before
setting LPCR.  If we are not in hypervisor mode, we enable relocation-on
interrupts later in pSeries_setup_arch using the H_SET_MODE hcall.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 8f619b5429d9 ("powerpc/ppc64: Do not turn AIL (reloc-on
interrupts) too early") added code to set the AIL bit in the LPCR
without checking whether the kernel is running in hypervisor mode.  The
result is that when the kernel is running as a guest (i.e., under
PowerKVM or PowerVM), the processor takes a privileged instruction
interrupt at that point, causing a panic.  The visible result is that
the kernel hangs after printing "returning from prom_init".

This fixes it by checking for hypervisor mode being available before
setting LPCR.  If we are not in hypervisor mode, we enable relocation-on
interrupts later in pSeries_setup_arch using the H_SET_MODE hcall.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/ppc64: Do not turn AIL (reloc-on interrupts) too early</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T00:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T02:36:30+00:00</published>
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Turn them on at the same time as we allow MSR_IR/DR in the paca
kernel MSR, ie, after the MMU has been setup enough to be able
to handle relocated access to the linear mapping.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Turn them on at the same time as we allow MSR_IR/DR in the paca
kernel MSR, ie, after the MMU has been setup enough to be able
to handle relocated access to the linear mapping.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ppc64: Gracefully handle early interrupts</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T00:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T02:36:29+00:00</published>
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If we take an interrupt such as a trap caused by a BUG_ON before the
MMU has been setup, the interrupt handlers try to enable virutal mode
and cause a recursive crash, making the original problem very hard
to debug.

This fixes it by adjusting the "kernel_msr" value in the PACA so that
it only has MSR_IR and MSR_DR (translation for instruction and data)
set after the MMU has been initialized for the processor.

We may still not have a console yet but at least we don't get into
a recursive fault (and early debug console or memory dump via JTAG
of the kernel buffer *will* give us the proper error).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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If we take an interrupt such as a trap caused by a BUG_ON before the
MMU has been setup, the interrupt handlers try to enable virutal mode
and cause a recursive crash, making the original problem very hard
to debug.

This fixes it by adjusting the "kernel_msr" value in the PACA so that
it only has MSR_IR and MSR_DR (translation for instruction and data)
set after the MMU has been initialized for the processor.

We may still not have a console yet but at least we don't get into
a recursive fault (and early debug console or memory dump via JTAG
of the kernel buffer *will* give us the proper error).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Make boot_cpuid common between 32 and 64-bit</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T00:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T02:36:27+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Move the definition to setup-common.c and set the init value
to -1 on both 32 and 64-bit (it was 0 on 64-bit).

Additionally add a check to prom.c to garantee that the init
value has been udpated after the DT scan.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Move the definition to setup-common.c and set the init value
to -1 on both 32 and 64-bit (it was 0 on 64-bit).

Additionally add a check to prom.c to garantee that the init
value has been udpated after the DT scan.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/e6500: Make TLB lock recursive</title>
<updated>2014-03-20T00:57:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T20:48:35+00:00</published>
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Once special level interrupts are supported, we may take nested TLB
misses -- so allow the same thread to acquire the lock recursively.

The lock will not be effective against the nested TLB miss handler
trying to write the same entry as the interrupted TLB miss handler, but
that's also a problem on non-threaded CPUs that lack TLB write
conditional.  This will be addressed in the patch that enables crit/mc
support by invalidating the TLB on return from level exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Once special level interrupts are supported, we may take nested TLB
misses -- so allow the same thread to acquire the lock recursively.

The lock will not be effective against the nested TLB miss handler
trying to write the same entry as the interrupted TLB miss handler, but
that's also a problem on non-threaded CPUs that lack TLB write
conditional.  This will be addressed in the patch that enables crit/mc
support by invalidating the TLB on return from level exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e: initialize crit/mc/dbg kernel stack pointers</title>
<updated>2014-03-20T00:57:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiejun Chen</name>
<email>tiejun.chen@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-23T09:31:21+00:00</published>
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We already allocated critical/machine/debug check exceptions, but
we also should initialize those associated kernel stack pointers
for use by special exceptions in the PACA.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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We already allocated critical/machine/debug check exceptions, but
we also should initialize those associated kernel stack pointers
for use by special exceptions in the PACA.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T05:11:26+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "So here's my next branch for powerpc.  A bit late as I was on vacation
  last week.  It's mostly the same stuff that was in next already, I
  just added two patches today which are the wiring up of lockref for
  powerpc, which for some reason fell through the cracks last time and
  is trivial.

  The highlights are, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes:

   - Reworked Machine Check handling on kernels running without a
     hypervisor (or acting as a hypervisor).  Provides hooks to handle
     some errors in real mode such as TLB errors, handle SLB errors,
     etc...

   - Support for retrieving memory error information from the service
     processor on IBM servers running without a hypervisor and routing
     them to the memory poison infrastructure.

   - _PAGE_NUMA support on server processors

   - 32-bit BookE relocatable kernel support

   - FSL e6500 hardware tablewalk support

   - A bunch of new/revived board support

   - FSL e6500 deeper idle states and altivec powerdown support

  You'll notice a generic mm change here, it has been acked by the
  relevant authorities and is a pre-req for our _PAGE_NUMA support"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (121 commits)
  powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked()
  powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
  powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
  powerpc/eeh: Escalate error on non-existing PE
  powerpc/eeh: Handle multiple EEH errors
  powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers
  powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
  powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
  powerpc: Fix races with irq_work
  Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
  pseries/cpuidle: Remove redundant call to ppc64_runlatch_off() in cpu idle routines
  powerpc: Make add_system_ram_resources() __init
  powerpc: add SATA_MV to ppc64_defconfig
  powerpc/powernv: Increase candidate fw image size
  powerpc: Add debug checks to catch invalid cpu-to-node mappings
  powerpc: Fix the setup of CPU-to-Node mappings during CPU online
  powerpc/iommu: Don't detach device without IOMMU group
  powerpc/eeh: Hotplug improvement
  powerpc/eeh: Call opal_pci_reinit() on powernv for restoring config space
  powerpc/eeh: Add restore_config operation
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "So here's my next branch for powerpc.  A bit late as I was on vacation
  last week.  It's mostly the same stuff that was in next already, I
  just added two patches today which are the wiring up of lockref for
  powerpc, which for some reason fell through the cracks last time and
  is trivial.

  The highlights are, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes:

   - Reworked Machine Check handling on kernels running without a
     hypervisor (or acting as a hypervisor).  Provides hooks to handle
     some errors in real mode such as TLB errors, handle SLB errors,
     etc...

   - Support for retrieving memory error information from the service
     processor on IBM servers running without a hypervisor and routing
     them to the memory poison infrastructure.

   - _PAGE_NUMA support on server processors

   - 32-bit BookE relocatable kernel support

   - FSL e6500 hardware tablewalk support

   - A bunch of new/revived board support

   - FSL e6500 deeper idle states and altivec powerdown support

  You'll notice a generic mm change here, it has been acked by the
  relevant authorities and is a pre-req for our _PAGE_NUMA support"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (121 commits)
  powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked()
  powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
  powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
  powerpc/eeh: Escalate error on non-existing PE
  powerpc/eeh: Handle multiple EEH errors
  powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers
  powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
  powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
  powerpc: Fix races with irq_work
  Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
  pseries/cpuidle: Remove redundant call to ppc64_runlatch_off() in cpu idle routines
  powerpc: Make add_system_ram_resources() __init
  powerpc: add SATA_MV to ppc64_defconfig
  powerpc/powernv: Increase candidate fw image size
  powerpc: Add debug checks to catch invalid cpu-to-node mappings
  powerpc: Fix the setup of CPU-to-Node mappings during CPU online
  powerpc/iommu: Don't detach device without IOMMU group
  powerpc/eeh: Hotplug improvement
  powerpc/eeh: Call opal_pci_reinit() on powernv for restoring config space
  powerpc/eeh: Add restore_config operation
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/e6500: TLB miss handler with hardware tablewalk support</title>
<updated>2014-01-09T23:52:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-12T00:22:38+00:00</published>
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There are a few things that make the existing hw tablewalk handlers
unsuitable for e6500:

 - Indirect entries go in TLB1 (though the resulting direct entries go in
   TLB0).

 - It has threads, but no "tlbsrx." -- so we need a spinlock and
   a normal "tlbsx".  Because we need this lock, hardware tablewalk
   is mandatory on e6500 unless we want to add spinlock+tlbsx to
   the normal bolted TLB miss handler.

 - TLB1 has no HES (nor next-victim hint) so we need software round robin
   (TODO: integrate this round robin data with hugetlb/KVM)

 - The existing tablewalk handlers map half of a page table at a time,
   because IBM hardware has a fixed 1MiB indirect page size.  e6500
   has variable size indirect entries, with a minimum of 2MiB.
   So we can't do the half-page indirect mapping, and even if we
   could it would be less efficient than mapping the full page.

 - Like on e5500, the linear mapping is bolted, so we don't need the
   overhead of supporting nested tlb misses.

Note that hardware tablewalk does not work in rev1 of e6500.
We do not expect to support e6500 rev1 in mainline Linux.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Mihai Caraman &lt;mihai.caraman@freescale.com&gt;
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There are a few things that make the existing hw tablewalk handlers
unsuitable for e6500:

 - Indirect entries go in TLB1 (though the resulting direct entries go in
   TLB0).

 - It has threads, but no "tlbsrx." -- so we need a spinlock and
   a normal "tlbsx".  Because we need this lock, hardware tablewalk
   is mandatory on e6500 unless we want to add spinlock+tlbsx to
   the normal bolted TLB miss handler.

 - TLB1 has no HES (nor next-victim hint) so we need software round robin
   (TODO: integrate this round robin data with hugetlb/KVM)

 - The existing tablewalk handlers map half of a page table at a time,
   because IBM hardware has a fixed 1MiB indirect page size.  e6500
   has variable size indirect entries, with a minimum of 2MiB.
   So we can't do the half-page indirect mapping, and even if we
   could it would be less efficient than mapping the full page.

 - Like on e5500, the linear mapping is bolted, so we don't need the
   overhead of supporting nested tlb misses.

Note that hardware tablewalk does not work in rev1 of e6500.
We do not expect to support e6500 rev1 in mainline Linux.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Mihai Caraman &lt;mihai.caraman@freescale.com&gt;
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