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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/lib, branch v4.0</title>
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<title>powerpc/lib: Makefile, use obj64-y to consolidate 64-bit rules</title>
<updated>2015-01-28T04:00:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2014-12-22T04:18:43+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/lib: Makefile, consolidate obj-y sections</title>
<updated>2015-01-28T04:00:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2014-12-22T04:14:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Add 64bit optimised memcmp</title>
<updated>2015-01-23T03:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2015-01-21T01:27:38+00:00</published>
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I noticed ksm spending quite a lot of time in memcmp on a large
KVM box. The current memcmp loop is very unoptimised - byte at a
time compares with no loop unrolling. We can do much much better.

Optimise the loop in a few ways:

- Unroll the byte at a time loop

- For large (at least 32 byte) comparisons that are also 8 byte
  aligned, use an unrolled modulo scheduled loop using 8 byte
  loads. This is similar to our glibc memcmp.

A simple microbenchmark testing 10000000 iterations of an 8192 byte
memcmp was used to measure the performance:

baseline:	29.93 s

modified:	 1.70 s

Just over 17x faster.

v2: Incorporated some suggestions from Segher:

- Use andi. instead of rdlicl.

- Convert bdnzt eq, to bdnz. It's just duplicating the earlier compare
  and was a relic from a previous version.

- Don't use cr5, we have plans to use that CR field for fast local
  atomics.

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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I noticed ksm spending quite a lot of time in memcmp on a large
KVM box. The current memcmp loop is very unoptimised - byte at a
time compares with no loop unrolling. We can do much much better.

Optimise the loop in a few ways:

- Unroll the byte at a time loop

- For large (at least 32 byte) comparisons that are also 8 byte
  aligned, use an unrolled modulo scheduled loop using 8 byte
  loads. This is similar to our glibc memcmp.

A simple microbenchmark testing 10000000 iterations of an 8192 byte
memcmp was used to measure the performance:

baseline:	29.93 s

modified:	 1.70 s

Just over 17x faster.

v2: Incorporated some suggestions from Segher:

- Use andi. instead of rdlicl.

- Convert bdnzt eq, to bdnz. It's just duplicating the earlier compare
  and was a relic from a previous version.

- Don't use cr5, we have plans to use that CR field for fast local
  atomics.

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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<title>powerpc/lib: Do not include string.o in obj-y twice</title>
<updated>2014-12-29T04:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Ruprecht</name>
<email>rupran@einserver.de</email>
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<published>2014-12-17T11:05:13+00:00</published>
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In the Makefile, string.o (which is generated from string.S) is
included into the list of objects being built unconditionally
(obj-y) in line 12.

Additionally, if CONFIG_PPC64 is set, it is included again in
line 17.

This patch removes the latter unnecessary inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ruprecht &lt;rupran@einserver.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In the Makefile, string.o (which is generated from string.S) is
included into the list of objects being built unconditionally
(obj-y) in line 12.

Additionally, if CONFIG_PPC64 is set, it is included again in
line 17.

This patch removes the latter unnecessary inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ruprecht &lt;rupran@einserver.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T18:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-12-12T18:08:06+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree update from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff: documentation updates, printk() fixes, etc"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  intel_ips: fix a type in error message
  cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Move newline to end of error message
  ps3rom: fix error return code
  treewide: fix typo in printk and Kconfig
  ARM: dts: bcm63138: change "interupts" to "interrupts"
  Replace mentions of "list_struct" to "list_head"
  kernel: trace: fix printk message
  scsi: mpt2sas: fix ioctl in comment
  zbud, zswap: change module author email
  clocksource: Fix 'clcoksource' typo in comment
  arm: fix wording of "Crotex" in CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS3 help
  gpio: msm-v1: make boolean argument more obvious
  usb: Fix typo in usb-serial-simple.c
  PCI: Fix comment typo 'COMFIG_PM_OPS'
  powerpc: Fix comment typo 'CONIFG_8xx'
  powerpc: Fix comment typos 'CONFiG_ALTIVEC'
  clk: st: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  isci: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  usb: gadget: zero: Spelling s/infrastucture/infrastructure/
  treewide: Fix company name in module descriptions
  ...
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Pull trivial tree update from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff: documentation updates, printk() fixes, etc"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  intel_ips: fix a type in error message
  cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Move newline to end of error message
  ps3rom: fix error return code
  treewide: fix typo in printk and Kconfig
  ARM: dts: bcm63138: change "interupts" to "interrupts"
  Replace mentions of "list_struct" to "list_head"
  kernel: trace: fix printk message
  scsi: mpt2sas: fix ioctl in comment
  zbud, zswap: change module author email
  clocksource: Fix 'clcoksource' typo in comment
  arm: fix wording of "Crotex" in CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS3 help
  gpio: msm-v1: make boolean argument more obvious
  usb: Fix typo in usb-serial-simple.c
  PCI: Fix comment typo 'COMFIG_PM_OPS'
  powerpc: Fix comment typo 'CONIFG_8xx'
  powerpc: Fix comment typos 'CONFiG_ALTIVEC'
  clk: st: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  isci: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  usb: gadget: zero: Spelling s/infrastucture/infrastructure/
  treewide: Fix company name in module descriptions
  ...
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<title>Merge Linus' tree to be be to apply submitted patches to newer code than</title>
<updated>2014-11-20T13:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2014-11-20T13:42:02+00:00</published>
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current trivial.git base
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<title>powerpc: Remove more traces of bootmem</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T10:41:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-18T05:47:35+00:00</published>
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Although we are now selecting NO_BOOTMEM, we still have some traces of
bootmem lying around. That is because even with NO_BOOTMEM there is
still a shim that converts bootmem calls into memblock calls, but
ultimately we want to remove all traces of bootmem.

Most of the patch is conversions from alloc_bootmem() to
memblock_virt_alloc(). In general a call such as:

  p = (struct foo *)alloc_bootmem(x);

Becomes:

  p = memblock_virt_alloc(x, 0);

We don't need the cast because memblock_virt_alloc() returns a void *.
The alignment value of zero tells memblock to use the default alignment,
which is SMP_CACHE_BYTES, the same value alloc_bootmem() uses.

We remove a number of NULL checks on the result of
memblock_virt_alloc(). That is because memblock_virt_alloc() will panic
if it can't allocate, in exactly the same way as alloc_bootmem(), so the
NULL checks are and always have been redundant.

The memory returned by memblock_virt_alloc() is already zeroed, so we
remove several memsets of the result of memblock_virt_alloc().

Finally we convert a few uses of __alloc_bootmem(x, y, MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)
to just plain memblock_virt_alloc(). We don't use memblock_alloc_base()
because MAX_DMA_ADDRESS is ~0ul on powerpc, so limiting the allocation
to that is pointless, 16XB ought to be enough for anyone.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Although we are now selecting NO_BOOTMEM, we still have some traces of
bootmem lying around. That is because even with NO_BOOTMEM there is
still a shim that converts bootmem calls into memblock calls, but
ultimately we want to remove all traces of bootmem.

Most of the patch is conversions from alloc_bootmem() to
memblock_virt_alloc(). In general a call such as:

  p = (struct foo *)alloc_bootmem(x);

Becomes:

  p = memblock_virt_alloc(x, 0);

We don't need the cast because memblock_virt_alloc() returns a void *.
The alignment value of zero tells memblock to use the default alignment,
which is SMP_CACHE_BYTES, the same value alloc_bootmem() uses.

We remove a number of NULL checks on the result of
memblock_virt_alloc(). That is because memblock_virt_alloc() will panic
if it can't allocate, in exactly the same way as alloc_bootmem(), so the
NULL checks are and always have been redundant.

The memory returned by memblock_virt_alloc() is already zeroed, so we
remove several memsets of the result of memblock_virt_alloc().

Finally we convert a few uses of __alloc_bootmem(x, y, MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)
to just plain memblock_virt_alloc(). We don't use memblock_alloc_base()
because MAX_DMA_ADDRESS is ~0ul on powerpc, so limiting the allocation
to that is pointless, 16XB ought to be enough for anyone.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix compilation of emulate_step()</title>
<updated>2014-11-12T04:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-03T04:46:43+00:00</published>
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Commit be96f63375a1 ("powerpc: Split out instruction analysis
part of emulate_step()") added some calls to do_fp_load()
and do_fp_store(), which fail to compile on configs with
CONFIG_PPC_FPU=n and CONFIG_PPC_EMULATE_SSTEP=y.  This fixes
the compile by adding #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU around the code
that calls these functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit be96f63375a1 ("powerpc: Split out instruction analysis
part of emulate_step()") added some calls to do_fp_load()
and do_fp_store(), which fail to compile on configs with
CONFIG_PPC_FPU=n and CONFIG_PPC_EMULATE_SSTEP=y.  This fixes
the compile by adding #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU around the code
that calls these functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove unused devm_ioremap_prot()</title>
<updated>2014-11-09T22:59:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyle McMartin</name>
<email>kyle@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-25T16:54:25+00:00</published>
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Added in 2008, but has never had any in-tree users, and no other
architectures provide it.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Added in 2008, but has never had any in-tree users, and no other
architectures provide it.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix comment typos 'CONFiG_ALTIVEC'</title>
<updated>2014-10-29T13:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-26T17:45:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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