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<title>rtc/tpo: Driver to support rtc and wakeup on PowerNV platform</title>
<updated>2014-11-17T07:04:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neelesh Gupta</name>
<email>neelegup@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-14T08:38:36+00:00</published>
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The patch implements the OPAL rtc driver that binds with the rtc
driver subsystem. The driver uses the platform device infrastructure
to probe the rtc device and register it to rtc class framework. The
'wakeup' is supported depending upon the property 'has-tpo' present
in the OF node. It provides a way to load the generic rtc driver in
in the absence of an OPAL driver.

The patch also moves the existing OPAL rtc get/set time interfaces to the
new driver and exposes the necessary OPAL calls using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Test results:
-------------
Host:
[root@tul169p1 ~]# ls -l /sys/class/rtc/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 14 03:07 rtc0 -&gt; ../../devices/opal-rtc/rtc/rtc0
[root@tul169p1 ~]# cat /sys/devices/opal-rtc/rtc/rtc0/time
08:10:07
[root@tul169p1 ~]# echo `date '+%s' -d '+ 2 minutes'` &gt; /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
[root@tul169p1 ~]# cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
1413274345
[root@tul169p1 ~]#

FSP:
$ smgr mfgState
standby
$ rtim timeofday

System time is valid: 2014/10/14 08:12:04.225115

$ smgr mfgState
ipling
$

CC: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
CC: tglx@linutronix.de
CC: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
CC: a.zummo@towertech.it
Signed-off-by: Neelesh Gupta &lt;neelegup@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The patch implements the OPAL rtc driver that binds with the rtc
driver subsystem. The driver uses the platform device infrastructure
to probe the rtc device and register it to rtc class framework. The
'wakeup' is supported depending upon the property 'has-tpo' present
in the OF node. It provides a way to load the generic rtc driver in
in the absence of an OPAL driver.

The patch also moves the existing OPAL rtc get/set time interfaces to the
new driver and exposes the necessary OPAL calls using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Test results:
-------------
Host:
[root@tul169p1 ~]# ls -l /sys/class/rtc/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 14 03:07 rtc0 -&gt; ../../devices/opal-rtc/rtc/rtc0
[root@tul169p1 ~]# cat /sys/devices/opal-rtc/rtc/rtc0/time
08:10:07
[root@tul169p1 ~]# echo `date '+%s' -d '+ 2 minutes'` &gt; /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
[root@tul169p1 ~]# cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
1413274345
[root@tul169p1 ~]#

FSP:
$ smgr mfgState
standby
$ rtim timeofday

System time is valid: 2014/10/14 08:12:04.225115

$ smgr mfgState
ipling
$

CC: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
CC: tglx@linutronix.de
CC: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
CC: a.zummo@towertech.it
Signed-off-by: Neelesh Gupta &lt;neelegup@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses</title>
<updated>2014-11-03T01:12:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-21T20:23:25+00:00</published>
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This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2-&gt;V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2-&gt;V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Make a bunch of things static</title>
<updated>2014-09-25T13:14:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-19T22:55:18+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move more symbol exports next to function definitions</title>
<updated>2014-09-25T13:14:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-19T22:00:02+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: Get rid of cycle_last</title>
<updated>2014-07-23T22:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-16T21:05:13+00:00</published>
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cycle_last was added to the clocksource to support the TSC
validation. We moved that to the core code, so we can get rid of the
extra copy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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cycle_last was added to the clocksource to support the TSC
validation. We moved that to the core code, so we can get rid of the
extra copy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PMAC'</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T07:04:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-20T20:24:58+00:00</published>
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Commit b0d278b7d3ae ("powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling
perf_event_do_pending") added a check for CONFIG_PMAC were a check for
CONFIG_PPC_PMAC was clearly intended.

Fixes: b0d278b7d3ae ("powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling perf_event_do_pending")
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit b0d278b7d3ae ("powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling
perf_event_do_pending") added a check for CONFIG_PMAC were a check for
CONFIG_PPC_PMAC was clearly intended.

Fixes: b0d278b7d3ae ("powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling perf_event_do_pending")
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: irq work racing with timer interrupt can result in timer interrupt hang</title>
<updated>2014-05-12T04:29:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-09T07:47:12+00:00</published>
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I am seeing an issue where a CPU running perf eventually hangs.
Traces show timer interrupts happening every 4 seconds even
when a userspace task is running on the CPU. /proc/timer_list
also shows pending hrtimers have not run in over an hour,
including the scheduler.

Looking closer, decrementers_next_tb is getting set to
0xffffffffffffffff, and at that point we will never take
a timer interrupt again.

In __timer_interrupt() we set decrementers_next_tb to
0xffffffffffffffff and rely on -&gt;event_handler to update it:

        *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
        if (evt-&gt;event_handler)
                evt-&gt;event_handler(evt);

In this case -&gt;event_handler is hrtimer_interrupt. This will eventually
call back through the clockevents code with the next event to be
programmed:

static int decrementer_set_next_event(unsigned long evt,
                                      struct clock_event_device *dev)
{
        /* Don't adjust the decrementer if some irq work is pending */
        if (test_irq_work_pending())
                return 0;
        __get_cpu_var(decrementers_next_tb) = get_tb_or_rtc() + evt;

If irq work came in between these two points, we will return
before updating decrementers_next_tb and we never process a timer
interrupt again.

This looks to have been introduced by 0215f7d8c53f (powerpc: Fix races
with irq_work). Fix it by removing the early exit and relying on
code later on in the function to force an early decrementer:

       /* We may have raced with new irq work */
       if (test_irq_work_pending())
               set_dec(1);

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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I am seeing an issue where a CPU running perf eventually hangs.
Traces show timer interrupts happening every 4 seconds even
when a userspace task is running on the CPU. /proc/timer_list
also shows pending hrtimers have not run in over an hour,
including the scheduler.

Looking closer, decrementers_next_tb is getting set to
0xffffffffffffffff, and at that point we will never take
a timer interrupt again.

In __timer_interrupt() we set decrementers_next_tb to
0xffffffffffffffff and rely on -&gt;event_handler to update it:

        *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
        if (evt-&gt;event_handler)
                evt-&gt;event_handler(evt);

In this case -&gt;event_handler is hrtimer_interrupt. This will eventually
call back through the clockevents code with the next event to be
programmed:

static int decrementer_set_next_event(unsigned long evt,
                                      struct clock_event_device *dev)
{
        /* Don't adjust the decrementer if some irq work is pending */
        if (test_irq_work_pending())
                return 0;
        __get_cpu_var(decrementers_next_tb) = get_tb_or_rtc() + evt;

If irq work came in between these two points, we will return
before updating decrementers_next_tb and we never process a timer
interrupt again.

This looks to have been introduced by 0215f7d8c53f (powerpc: Fix races
with irq_work). Fix it by removing the early exit and relying on
code later on in the function to force an early decrementer:

       /* We may have raced with new irq work */
       if (test_irq_work_pending())
               set_dec(1);

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle/powernv: Add "Fast-Sleep" CPU idle state</title>
<updated>2014-03-05T04:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Preeti U Murthy</name>
<email>preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-26T00:09:06+00:00</published>
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Fast sleep is one of the deep idle states on Power8 in which local timers of
CPUs stop. On PowerPC we do not have an external clock device which can
handle wakeup of such CPUs. Now that we have the support in the tick broadcast
framework for archs that do not sport such a device and the low level support
for fast sleep, enable it in the cpuidle framework on PowerNV.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Fast sleep is one of the deep idle states on Power8 in which local timers of
CPUs stop. On PowerPC we do not have an external clock device which can
handle wakeup of such CPUs. Now that we have the support in the tick broadcast
framework for archs that do not sport such a device and the low level support
for fast sleep, enable it in the cpuidle framework on PowerNV.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Split timer_interrupt() into timer handling and interrupt handling routines</title>
<updated>2014-03-05T04:56:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Preeti U Murthy</name>
<email>preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-26T00:08:01+00:00</published>
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Split timer_interrupt(), which is the local timer interrupt handler on ppc
into routines called during regular interrupt handling and __timer_interrupt(),
which takes care of running local timers and collecting time related stats.

This will enable callers interested only in running expired local timers to
directly call into __timer_interupt(). One of the use cases of this is the
tick broadcast IPI handling in which the sleeping CPUs need to handle the local
timers that have expired.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Split timer_interrupt(), which is the local timer interrupt handler on ppc
into routines called during regular interrupt handling and __timer_interrupt(),
which takes care of running local timers and collecting time related stats.

This will enable callers interested only in running expired local timers to
directly call into __timer_interupt(). One of the use cases of this is the
tick broadcast IPI handling in which the sleeping CPUs need to handle the local
timers that have expired.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Implement tick broadcast IPI as a fixed IPI message</title>
<updated>2014-03-05T04:55:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-26T00:07:43+00:00</published>
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For scalability and performance reasons, we want the tick broadcast IPIs
to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages
are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than
the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers are fixed and hence
they don't involve costly operations such as adding IPI handlers to the target
CPU's function queue, acquiring locks for synchronization etc.

Luckily we have an unused IPI message slot, so use that to implement
tick broadcast IPIs efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[Functions renamed to tick_broadcast* and Changelog modified by
 Preeti U. Murthy&lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;]
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt; [For the PS3 part]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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For scalability and performance reasons, we want the tick broadcast IPIs
to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages
are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than
the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers are fixed and hence
they don't involve costly operations such as adding IPI handlers to the target
CPU's function queue, acquiring locks for synchronization etc.

Luckily we have an unused IPI message slot, so use that to implement
tick broadcast IPIs efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[Functions renamed to tick_broadcast* and Changelog modified by
 Preeti U. Murthy&lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;]
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt; [For the PS3 part]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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