linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/head.S, branch linux-3.7.y

s390: add support to start the kernel in 64 bit mode.

2012-10-09T12:16:58+00:00

Do the switch to z/Architecture (alias 64 bit) mode early in head.S.
If the machine is already running in 64 bit mode the sigp turns into
a nop. With this change it doesn't matter in which mode the kernel
is started.

Reviewd-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

2012-07-20T09:15:04+00:00

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.

Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

s390/ipl: remove builtin tape ipl code

2012-05-16T12:42:40+00:00

Remove the builtin tape ipl code. If somebody really wants to create a
tape which can be ipl'ed from, then this can be achieved by using zipl.
zipl can write an ipl record to a tape device and aftwards the kernel
image must be written to tape.
The steps are described in the "Linux on System z - Device Drivers,
Features, and Commands" book (SC33-8411).

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Fix stfle() lowcore protection problem

2012-04-11T12:28:26+00:00

The stfle() function writes into lowcore memory when stfl_fac_list
is initialized with "S390_lowcore.stfl_fac_list = 0". For older
compilers this triggers a lowcore exception. With newer compilers
and "-OXX" compile option the bug does not show up because
the "S390_lowcore.stfl_fac_list" initialization is removed by the
compiler. The reason for thatis the incorrect "=m"
(S390_lowcore.stfl_fac_list) constraint in the stfl inline assembly.

The following shows the disassembly of the stfle() optimized code
that is inlined in the lgr_info_get() function:

000000000011325c :
  11325c:       eb 9f f0 60 00 24       stmg    %r9,%r15,96(%r15)
  113262:       c0 d0 00 29 0e 47       larl    %r13,634ef0 
  113268:       a7 f1 3f c0             tml     %r15,16320
  11326c:       b9 04 00 ef             lgr     %r14,%r15
  113270:       a7 84 00 01             je      113272 
  113274:       a7 fb ff c0             aghi    %r15,-64
  113278:       b9 04 00 c2             lgr     %r12,%r2
  11327c:       a7 29 00 01             lghi    %r2,1
  113280:       e3 e0 f0 98 00 24       stg     %r14,152(%r15)
  113286:       d7 97 c0 00 c0 00       xc      0(152,%r12),0(%r12)
  11328c:       c0 e5 00 28 db 4c       brasl   %r14,62e924 
  113292:       b2 b1 00 00             stfl    0

To fix the problem we now clear the S390_lowcore.stfl_fac_list at
startup in "head.S" for all machine types before lowcore protection
is enabled.

In addition to that the "=m" constraint is replaced by "+m".

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] entry[64].S improvements

2011-12-27T10:27:12+00:00

Another round of cleanup for entry[64].S, in particular the program check
handler looks more reasonable now. The code size for the 31 bit kernel
has been reduced by 616 byte and by 528 byte for the 64 bit version.
Even better the code is a bit faster as well.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] kdump backend code

2011-10-30T14:16:42+00:00

This patch provides the architecture specific part of the s390 kdump
support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] fix s390 assembler code alignments

2011-07-24T08:48:21+00:00

The alignment is missing for various global symbols in s390 assembly code.
With a recent gcc and an instruction like stgrl this can lead to a
specification exception if the instruction uses such a mis-aligned address.

Specify the alignment explicitely and while add it define __ALIGN for s390
and use the ENTRY define to save some lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] compile fix for latest binutils

2011-04-04T07:43:33+00:00

The latest binutils won't accept the stfl instruction with march=g5
which is the correct behaviour. Unfortunately head.S is assembled
with -march=g5 even if the target cpu is z900 or later. To get
31-bit kernels compiled again the easiest fix is to use the .insn
notation for the stfl instruction in head.S.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Add config option for z196 code generation.

2010-10-25T14:10:15+00:00

Add a kernel config option for the IBM zEnterprise 196. This will
produce faster code on newer compilers using the -march=z196 option.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] initrd: change default load address

2010-08-09T16:12:54+00:00

Change default load address of the initrd in case of IPL from reader.
The new load address is directly behind the kernel image.
This way we can see immediatly if there are any problems with the code
which tries to rescue the initrd in case the bootmem bitmap would
overlap with the initrd.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky