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<title>powerpc/85xx: use the BRx registers to enable indirect mode on the P1022DS</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:22:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Timur Tabi</name>
<email>timur@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-05T15:08:28+00:00</published>
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commit 6bd825f02966be8ba544047cab313d6032c23819 upstream.

In order to enable the DIU video controller on the P1022DS, the FPGA needs
to be switched to "indirect mode", where the localbus is disabled and
the FPGA is accessed via writes to localbus chip select signals CS0 and CS1.

To obtain the address of CS0 and CS1, the platform driver uses an "indirect
pixis mode" device tree node.  This node assumes that the localbus 'ranges'
property is sorted in chip-select order.  That is, reg value 0 maps to
CS0, reg value 1 maps to CS1, etc.  This is how the 'ranges' property is
supposed to be arranged.

Unfortunately, the 'ranges' property is often mis-arranged, and not just on
the P1022DS.  Linux normally does not care, since it does not program the
localbus.  But the indirect-mode code on the P1022DS does care.

The "proper" fix is to have U-Boot fix the 'ranges' property, but this would
be too cumbersome.  The names and 'reg' properties of all the localbus
devices would also need to be updated, and determining which localbus device
maps to which chip select is board-specific.

Instead, we determine the CS0/CS1 base addresses the same way that U-boot
does -- by reading the BRx registers directly and mapping them to physical
addresses.  This code is simpler and more reliable, and it does not require
a U-boot or device tree change.

Since the indirect pixis device tree node is no longer needed, the node is
deleted from the DTS.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6bd825f02966be8ba544047cab313d6032c23819 upstream.

In order to enable the DIU video controller on the P1022DS, the FPGA needs
to be switched to "indirect mode", where the localbus is disabled and
the FPGA is accessed via writes to localbus chip select signals CS0 and CS1.

To obtain the address of CS0 and CS1, the platform driver uses an "indirect
pixis mode" device tree node.  This node assumes that the localbus 'ranges'
property is sorted in chip-select order.  That is, reg value 0 maps to
CS0, reg value 1 maps to CS1, etc.  This is how the 'ranges' property is
supposed to be arranged.

Unfortunately, the 'ranges' property is often mis-arranged, and not just on
the P1022DS.  Linux normally does not care, since it does not program the
localbus.  But the indirect-mode code on the P1022DS does care.

The "proper" fix is to have U-Boot fix the 'ranges' property, but this would
be too cumbersome.  The names and 'reg' properties of all the localbus
devices would also need to be updated, and determining which localbus device
maps to which chip select is board-specific.

Instead, we determine the CS0/CS1 base addresses the same way that U-boot
does -- by reading the BRx registers directly and mapping them to physical
addresses.  This code is simpler and more reliable, and it does not require
a U-boot or device tree change.

Since the indirect pixis device tree node is no longer needed, the node is
deleted from the DTS.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/eeh: Check handle_eeh_events() return value</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:22:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kleber Sacilotto de Souza</name>
<email>klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-12T17:14:36+00:00</published>
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commit 10db8d212864cb6741df7d7fafda5ab6661f6f88 upstream.

Function eeh_event_handler() dereferences the pointer returned by
handle_eeh_events() without checking, causing a crash if NULL was
returned, which is expected in some situations.

This patch fixes this bug by checking for the value returned by
handle_eeh_events() before dereferencing it.

Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza &lt;klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 10db8d212864cb6741df7d7fafda5ab6661f6f88 upstream.

Function eeh_event_handler() dereferences the pointer returned by
handle_eeh_events() without checking, causing a crash if NULL was
returned, which is expected in some situations.

This patch fixes this bug by checking for the value returned by
handle_eeh_events() before dereferencing it.

Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza &lt;klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add "memory" attribute for mfmsr()</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiejun Chen</name>
<email>tiejun.chen@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-11T04:22:46+00:00</published>
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commit b416c9a10baae6a177b4f9ee858b8d309542fbef upstream.

Add "memory" attribute in inline assembly language as a compiler
barrier to make sure 4.6.x GCC don't reorder mfmsr().

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b416c9a10baae6a177b4f9ee858b8d309542fbef upstream.

Add "memory" attribute in inline assembly language as a compiler
barrier to make sure 4.6.x GCC don't reorder mfmsr().

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: Fix assembly trampoline register usage</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>roger blofeld</name>
<email>blofeldus@yahoo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-21T05:27:14+00:00</published>
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commit fd5a42980e1cf327b7240adf5e7b51ea41c23437 upstream.

Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12
instead of r11 with newer gcc's.

Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld &lt;blofeldus@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fd5a42980e1cf327b7240adf5e7b51ea41c23437 upstream.

Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12
instead of r11 with newer gcc's.

Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld &lt;blofeldus@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-upstream-master' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T15:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Avi Kivity</name>
<email>avi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-11T15:49:20+00:00</published>
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PPC fix from Alex Graf: "It contains an important bug fix which
can lead to guest freezes when using PAPR guests with PR KVM."

* 'for-upstream-master' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6:
  powerpc/kvm: Fix "PR" KVM implementation of H_CEDE

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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PPC fix from Alex Graf: "It contains an important bug fix which
can lead to guest freezes when using PAPR guests with PR KVM."

* 'for-upstream-master' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6:
  powerpc/kvm: Fix "PR" KVM implementation of H_CEDE

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm: Fix "PR" KVM implementation of H_CEDE</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T15:36:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-09T22:48:17+00:00</published>
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H_CEDE should enable the vcpu's MSR:EE bit. It does on "HV" KVM (it's
burried in the assembly code though) and as far as I can tell, qemu
does it as well.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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H_CEDE should enable the vcpu's MSR:EE bit. It does on "HV" KVM (it's
burried in the assembly code though) and as far as I can tell, qemu
does it as well.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/numa: Avoid stupid uninitialized warning from gcc</title>
<updated>2012-07-10T09:16:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-05T16:30:33+00:00</published>
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Newer gcc are being a bit blind here (it's pretty obvious we don't
reach the code path using the array if we haven't initialized the
pointer) but none of that is performance critical so let's just
silence it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Newer gcc are being a bit blind here (it's pretty obvious we don't
reach the code path using the array if we haven't initialized the
pointer) but none of that is performance critical so let's just
silence it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix build of some debug irq code</title>
<updated>2012-07-10T09:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-10T08:37:56+00:00</published>
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There was a typo, checking for CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAG instead of
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS causing some useful debug code to not be
built

This in turns causes a build error on BookE 64-bit due to incorrect
semicolons at the end of a couple of macros, so let's fix that too

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.4]
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There was a typo, checking for CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAG instead of
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS causing some useful debug code to not be
built

This in turns causes a build error on BookE 64-bit due to incorrect
semicolons at the end of a couple of macros, so let's fix that too

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.4]
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: More fixes for lazy IRQ vs. idle</title>
<updated>2012-07-10T09:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-10T08:36:40+00:00</published>
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Looks like we still have issues with pSeries and Cell idle code
vs. the lazy irq state. In fact, the reset fixes that went upstream
are exposing the problem more by causing BUG_ON() to trigger (which
this patch turns into a WARN_ON instead).

We need to be careful when using a variant of low power state that
has the side effect of turning interrupts back on, to properly set
all the SW &amp; lazy state to look as if everything is enabled before
we enter the low power state with MSR:EE off as we will return with
MSR:EE on. If not, we have a discrepancy of state which can cause
things to go very wrong later on.

This patch moves the logic into a helper and uses it from the
pseries and cell idle code. The power4/970 idle code already got
things right (in assembly even !) so I'm not touching it. The power7
"bare metal" idle code is subtly different and correct. Remains PA6T
and some hypervisor based Cell platforms which have questionable
code in there, but they are mostly dead platforms so I'll fix them
when I manage to get final answers from the respective maintainers
about how the low power state actually works on them.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.4]
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Looks like we still have issues with pSeries and Cell idle code
vs. the lazy irq state. In fact, the reset fixes that went upstream
are exposing the problem more by causing BUG_ON() to trigger (which
this patch turns into a WARN_ON instead).

We need to be careful when using a variant of low power state that
has the side effect of turning interrupts back on, to properly set
all the SW &amp; lazy state to look as if everything is enabled before
we enter the low power state with MSR:EE off as we will return with
MSR:EE on. If not, we have a discrepancy of state which can cause
things to go very wrong later on.

This patch moves the logic into a helper and uses it from the
pseries and cell idle code. The power4/970 idle code already got
things right (in assembly even !) so I'm not touching it. The power7
"bare metal" idle code is subtly different and correct. Remains PA6T
and some hypervisor based Cell platforms which have questionable
code in there, but they are mostly dead platforms so I'll fix them
when I manage to get final answers from the respective maintainers
about how the low power state actually works on them.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.4]
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm: sldi should be sld</title>
<updated>2012-07-02T04:30:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T13:33:11+00:00</published>
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Since we are taking a registers, this should never have been an sldi.
Talking to paulus offline, this is the correct fix.

Was introduced by:
 commit 19ccb76a1938ab364a412253daec64613acbf3df
 Author: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
 Date:   Sat Jul 23 17:42:46 2011 +1000

Talking to paulus, this shouldn't be a literal.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [v3.2+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Since we are taking a registers, this should never have been an sldi.
Talking to paulus offline, this is the correct fix.

Was introduced by:
 commit 19ccb76a1938ab364a412253daec64613acbf3df
 Author: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
 Date:   Sat Jul 23 17:42:46 2011 +1000

Talking to paulus, this shouldn't be a literal.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [v3.2+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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