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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c, branch linux-3.1.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>atomic: use &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:06+00:00</published>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T05:59:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T05:59:39+00:00</published>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (99 commits)
  drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c
  powerpc/85xx: fix mpic configuration in CAMP mode
  powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
  powerpc/64: Make server perfmon only built on ppc64 server devices
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvc_vio.c build due to recent changes
  powerpc: Exporting boot_cpuid_phys
  powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output
  hvc_console: Add kdb support
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvterm_raw_get_chars to accept &lt; 16 chars, fixing xmon
  powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks
  powerpc: Enable lockup and hung task detectors in pseries and ppc64 defeconfigs
  powerpc: Add mpt2sas driver to pseries and ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Disable IRQs off tracer in ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Sync pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix dropped console output
  hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
  powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/mm: Fix output of total_ram.
  powerpc/cpufreq: Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
  powerpc: Correct annotations of pmu registration functions
  ...

Fix up trivial Kconfig/Makefile conflicts in arch/powerpc, drivers, and
drivers/cpufreq
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (99 commits)
  drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c
  powerpc/85xx: fix mpic configuration in CAMP mode
  powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
  powerpc/64: Make server perfmon only built on ppc64 server devices
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvc_vio.c build due to recent changes
  powerpc: Exporting boot_cpuid_phys
  powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output
  hvc_console: Add kdb support
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvterm_raw_get_chars to accept &lt; 16 chars, fixing xmon
  powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks
  powerpc: Enable lockup and hung task detectors in pseries and ppc64 defeconfigs
  powerpc: Add mpt2sas driver to pseries and ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Disable IRQs off tracer in ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Sync pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix dropped console output
  hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
  powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/mm: Fix output of total_ram.
  powerpc/cpufreq: Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
  powerpc: Correct annotations of pmu registration functions
  ...

Fix up trivial Kconfig/Makefile conflicts in arch/powerpc, drivers, and
drivers/cpufreq
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:21:34+00:00</published>
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This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Create next_tlbcam_idx percpu variable for FSL_BOOKE</title>
<updated>2011-07-08T05:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Becky Bruce</name>
<email>beckyb@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-28T19:54:47+00:00</published>
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This is used to round-robin TLBCAM entries.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce &lt;beckyb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This is used to round-robin TLBCAM entries.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce &lt;beckyb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e-64: Reraise doorbell when masked by soft-irq-disable</title>
<updated>2011-06-29T06:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-22T11:19:49+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Avoid extra indirect function call in sending IPIs</title>
<updated>2011-06-20T01:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-25T23:34:12+00:00</published>
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On many platforms (including pSeries), smp_ops-&gt;message_pass is always
smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass.  This changes arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c so
that if smp_ops-&gt;message_pass is NULL, it calls smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass
directly.

This means that a platform doesn't need to set both .message_pass and
.cause_ipi, only one of them.  It is a slight performance improvement
in that it gets rid of an indirect function call at the expense of a
predictable conditional branch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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On many platforms (including pSeries), smp_ops-&gt;message_pass is always
smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass.  This changes arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c so
that if smp_ops-&gt;message_pass is NULL, it calls smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass
directly.

This means that a platform doesn't need to set both .message_pass and
.cause_ipi, only one of them.  It is a slight performance improvement
in that it gets rid of an indirect function call at the expense of a
predictable conditional branch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cell: Use common smp ipi actions</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T03:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T20:34:18+00:00</published>
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The cell iic interrupt controller has enough software caused interrupts
to use a unique interrupt for each of the 4 messages powerpc uses.
This means each interrupt gets its own irq action/data combination.

Use the seperate, optimized, arch common ipi action functions
registered via the helper smp_request_message_ipi instead passing the
message as action data to a single action that then demultipexes to
the required acton via a switch statement.

smp_request_message_ipi will register the action as IRQF_PER_CPU
and IRQF_DISABLED, and WARN if the allocation fails for some reason,
so no need to print on that failure.  It will return positive if
the message will not be used by the kernel, in which case we can
free the virq.

In addition to elimiating inefficient code, this also corrects the
error that a kernel built with kexec but without a debugger would
not register the ipi for kdump to notify the other cpus of a crash.

This also restores the debugger action to be static to kernel/smp.c.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The cell iic interrupt controller has enough software caused interrupts
to use a unique interrupt for each of the 4 messages powerpc uses.
This means each interrupt gets its own irq action/data combination.

Use the seperate, optimized, arch common ipi action functions
registered via the helper smp_request_message_ipi instead passing the
message as action data to a single action that then demultipexes to
the required acton via a switch statement.

smp_request_message_ipi will register the action as IRQF_PER_CPU
and IRQF_DISABLED, and WARN if the allocation fails for some reason,
so no need to print on that failure.  It will return positive if
the message will not be used by the kernel, in which case we can
free the virq.

In addition to elimiating inefficient code, this also corrects the
error that a kernel built with kexec but without a debugger would
not register the ipi for kdump to notify the other cpus of a crash.

This also restores the debugger action to be static to kernel/smp.c.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into merge</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T05:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T05:36:52+00:00</published>
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Manual merge of arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c and add missing scheduler_ipi()
call to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Manual merge of arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c and add missing scheduler_ipi()
call to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' into next</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T07:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T07:00:06+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use bytes instead of bitops in smp ipi multiplexing</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T05:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-10T19:29:46+00:00</published>
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Since there are only 4 messages, we can replace the atomic bit set
(which uses atomic load reserve and store conditional sequence) with
a byte stores to seperate bytes.  We still have to perform a load
reserve and store conditional sequence to avoid loosing messages on
reception but we can do that with a single call to xchg.

The do {} while and __BIG_ENDIAN specific mask testing was chosen by
looking at the generated asm code.  On gcc-4.4, the bit masking becomes
a simple bit mask and test of the register returned from xchg without
storing and loading the value to the stack like attempts with a union
of bytes and an int (or worse, loading single bit constants from the
constant pool into non-voliatle registers that had to be preseved on
the stack).  The do {} while avoids an unconditional branch to the
end of the loop to test the entry / repeat condition of a while loop
and instead optimises for the expected single iteration of the loop.

We have a full mb() at the beginning to cover ordering between send,
ipi, and receive so we can use xchg_local and forgo the further
acquire and release barriers of xchg.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Since there are only 4 messages, we can replace the atomic bit set
(which uses atomic load reserve and store conditional sequence) with
a byte stores to seperate bytes.  We still have to perform a load
reserve and store conditional sequence to avoid loosing messages on
reception but we can do that with a single call to xchg.

The do {} while and __BIG_ENDIAN specific mask testing was chosen by
looking at the generated asm code.  On gcc-4.4, the bit masking becomes
a simple bit mask and test of the register returned from xchg without
storing and loading the value to the stack like attempts with a union
of bytes and an int (or worse, loading single bit constants from the
constant pool into non-voliatle registers that had to be preseved on
the stack).  The do {} while avoids an unconditional branch to the
end of the loop to test the entry / repeat condition of a while loop
and instead optimises for the expected single iteration of the loop.

We have a full mb() at the beginning to cover ordering between send,
ipi, and receive so we can use xchg_local and forgo the further
acquire and release barriers of xchg.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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