linux.git/Documentation/powerpc, branch v5.1

powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dump

2018-12-21T00:32:49+00:00

One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power
is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large
systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite
significant.

In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or
if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed.

In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to
extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool.
While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part
of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions
default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else".

We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous
Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation
model for fadump.

Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use,
this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory
that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but
applications are free to use it. With this fadump will still be able
to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user space memory
except the user pages that were present in CMA region.

Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7557         193        6822          12         541        6725
Swap:          4095           0        4095

With this patch:
[root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           8133         194        7464          12         475        7338
Swap:          4095           0        4095

Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has
traditionally worked.

Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand
CMA and its usage.

TODO:
- Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Add some documentation of ISA versions

2018-12-20T11:21:20+00:00

Add some documentation on which CPU versions map to which ISA
versions. This is all publicly available information, some of it
already in the kernel source, but it's much nicer to have it all in
one place.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

2018-09-09T21:08:58+00:00

This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)

Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).

I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.

As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad 
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt 
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Paul Moore 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Mark Brown 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

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