linux.git/Documentation/powerpc, branch v4.19

powerpc: Document issues with TM on POWER9

2018-07-02T13:54:29+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Acked-by: Stewart Smith 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Document issues with the DAWR on POWER9

2018-07-02T13:54:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Acked-by: Stewart Smith 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-07-07T20:55:45+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs.

   - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board

   - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs.

   - Generic & powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting

   - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface

   - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths

   - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9.

  As well as many other fixes and improvements.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman
  Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter,
  Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier
  Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek,
  Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung
  Bauermann, Yang Li"

* tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
  powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs
  powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix
  powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash
  powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M
  powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction()
  powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon
  powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction()
  powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction()
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors
  powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp()
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap
  powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label
  powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols
  cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL
  powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8
  ...

scsi: cxlflash: Support AFU debug

2017-06-26T19:01:12+00:00

Adopt the SISLite AFU debug capability to allow future CXL Flash
adapters the ability to better debug AFU issues. Update the SISLite
header with the changes necessary to support AFU debug operations
and create a host ioctl interface for user debug software. Also
update the cxlflash documentation to describe this new host ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs 
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: cxlflash: Support LUN provisioning

2017-06-26T19:01:12+00:00

Adopt the SISLite AFU LUN provisioning capability to allow future CXL
Flash adapters the ability to better manage storage. Update the SISLite
header with the changes necessary to support LUN provision operations
and create a host ioctl interface for user LUN management software. Also
update the cxlflash documentation to describe this new host ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs 
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: cxlflash: Introduce host ioctl support

2017-06-26T19:01:11+00:00

As staging for supporting various host management functions, add a host
ioctl infrastructure to filter ioctl commands and perform operations that
are common for all host ioctls. Also update the cxlflash documentation to
create a new section for documenting host ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs 
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: cxlflash: Handle AFU sync failures

2017-06-26T19:01:08+00:00

AFU sync operations are not currently evaluated for failure. This is
acceptable for paths where there is not a dependency on the AFU being
consistent with the host. Examples include link reset events and LUN
cleanup operations. On paths where there is a dependency, such as a LUN
open, a sync failure should be acted upon.

In the event of AFU sync failures, either log or cleanup as appropriate for
operations that are dependent on a successful sync completion.

Update documentation to reflect behavior in the event of an AFU sync
failure.

Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan 
Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reserved

2017-06-02T10:16:49+00:00

With commit f6e6bedb7731 ("powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset
closer to bottom of RAM"), memory for fadump is no longer reserved at
the top of RAM. But there are still a few places which say so. Change
them appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/fadump: update documentation about crashkernel parameter reuse

2017-05-09T00:15:11+00:00

As we are reusing crashkernel parameter instead of fadump_reserve_mem
parameter to specify the memory to reserve for fadump's crash kernel,
update the documentation accordingly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035347559.6881.14224829694291758581.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-05-05T18:36:44+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we
     use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access
     to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap().

   - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.

   - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.

   - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator
     Interface Architecture 2.0".

   - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and
     runtime.

   - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as
     support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.

   - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts,
     correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and
     using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should
     aid debugging and robustness.

   - Many fixes and other minor enhancements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton
  Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy,
  Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin,
  Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J
  Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
  R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell
  Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C.
  Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar,
  Yang Shi"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it
  powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2
  powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie
  powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode
  powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body
  powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs
  powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC
  powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset()
  powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions
  powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event()
  cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence
  cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected()
  cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow
  powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST
  powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors
  powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids
  powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables
  powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc
  powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory
  ...