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<title>powerpc/boot: Fix build failures with -j 1</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T05:10:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-03T08:55:55+00:00</published>
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In commit 5e9dcb6188a4 ("powerpc/boot: Expose Kconfig symbols to
wrapper") we added a dependency to serial.c on autoconf.h:

  $(obj)/serial.c: $(obj)/autoconf.h

This works when building in-tree (ie. with KBUILD_OUTPUT unset)
because the obj tree is the src tree.

But when building with eg. O=build and -j 1 the build fails:

  gcc ... -I../arch/powerpc/boot -c -o arch/powerpc/boot/serial.o arch/powerpc/boot/serial.c
  gcc: error: arch/powerpc/boot/serial.c: No such file or directory

Why this is only happening with -j 1 is not clear, when building with
-j greater than 1 somehow we decide to look for serial.c in the src
tree (../), eg:

  gcc -I../arch/powerpc/boot -c -o arch/powerpc/boot/serial.o ../arch/powerpc/boot/serial.c

Regardless we shouldn't be specifying a dependency on serial.c in the
build tree, we want to add a dependency to the version in $(srctree)
so fix the rule to say that.

Fixes: 5e9dcb6188a4 ("powerpc/boot: Expose Kconfig symbols to wrapper")
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In commit 5e9dcb6188a4 ("powerpc/boot: Expose Kconfig symbols to
wrapper") we added a dependency to serial.c on autoconf.h:

  $(obj)/serial.c: $(obj)/autoconf.h

This works when building in-tree (ie. with KBUILD_OUTPUT unset)
because the obj tree is the src tree.

But when building with eg. O=build and -j 1 the build fails:

  gcc ... -I../arch/powerpc/boot -c -o arch/powerpc/boot/serial.o arch/powerpc/boot/serial.c
  gcc: error: arch/powerpc/boot/serial.c: No such file or directory

Why this is only happening with -j 1 is not clear, when building with
-j greater than 1 somehow we decide to look for serial.c in the src
tree (../), eg:

  gcc -I../arch/powerpc/boot -c -o arch/powerpc/boot/serial.o ../arch/powerpc/boot/serial.c

Regardless we shouldn't be specifying a dependency on serial.c in the
build tree, we want to add a dependency to the version in $(srctree)
so fix the rule to say that.

Fixes: 5e9dcb6188a4 ("powerpc/boot: Expose Kconfig symbols to wrapper")
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix COFF zImage booting on old powermacs</title>
<updated>2018-11-26T23:55:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-26T22:01:54+00:00</published>
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Commit 6975a783d7b4 ("powerpc/boot: Allow building the zImage wrapper
as a relocatable ET_DYN", 2011-04-12) changed the procedure descriptor
at the start of crt0.S to have a hard-coded start address of 0x500000
rather than a reference to _zimage_start, presumably because having
a reference to a symbol introduced a relocation which is awkward to
handle in a position-independent executable.  Unfortunately, what is
at 0x500000 in the COFF image is not the first instruction, but the
procedure descriptor itself, that is, a word containing 0x500000,
which is not a valid instruction.  Hence, booting a COFF zImage
results in a "DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700" message from Open
Firmware.

This fixes the problem by (a) putting the procedure descriptor in the
data section and (b) adding a branch to _zimage_start as the first
instruction in the program.

Fixes: 6975a783d7b4 ("powerpc/boot: Allow building the zImage wrapper as a relocatable ET_DYN")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit 6975a783d7b4 ("powerpc/boot: Allow building the zImage wrapper
as a relocatable ET_DYN", 2011-04-12) changed the procedure descriptor
at the start of crt0.S to have a hard-coded start address of 0x500000
rather than a reference to _zimage_start, presumably because having
a reference to a symbol introduced a relocation which is awkward to
handle in a position-independent executable.  Unfortunately, what is
at 0x500000 in the COFF image is not the first instruction, but the
procedure descriptor itself, that is, a word containing 0x500000,
which is not a valid instruction.  Hence, booting a COFF zImage
results in a "DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700" message from Open
Firmware.

This fixes the problem by (a) putting the procedure descriptor in the
data section and (b) adding a branch to _zimage_start as the first
instruction in the program.

Fixes: 6975a783d7b4 ("powerpc/boot: Allow building the zImage wrapper as a relocatable ET_DYN")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-11-02T16:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-02T16:19:35+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some things that I missed due to travel, or that came in late.

  Two fixes also going to stable:

   - A revert of a buggy change to the 8xx TLB miss handlers.

   - Our flushing of SPE (Signal Processing Engine) registers on fork
     was broken.

  Other changes:

   - A change to the KVM decrementer emulation to use proper APIs.

   - Some cleanups to the way we do code patching in the 8xx code.

   - Expose the maximum possible memory for the system in
     /proc/powerpc/lparcfg.

   - Merge some updates from Scott: "a couple device tree updates, and a
     fix for a missing prototype warning"

  A few other minor fixes and a handful of fixes for our selftests.

  Thanks to: Aravinda Prasad, Breno Leitao, Camelia Groza, Christophe
  Leroy, Felipe Rechia, Joel Stanley, Naveen N. Rao, Paul Mackerras,
  Scott Wood, Tyrel Datwyler"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (21 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix compilation issue due to asm label
  selftests/powerpc/cache_shape: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/switch_endian: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/pmu: Link ebb tests with -no-pie
  selftests/powerpc/signal: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Fix out-of-tree build
  powerpc/xmon: Relax frame size for clang
  selftests: powerpc: Fix warning for security subdir
  selftests/powerpc: Relax L1d miss targets for rfi_flush test
  powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE
  powerpc/pseries: add missing cpumask.h include file
  selftests/powerpc: Fix ptrace tm failure
  KVM: PPC: Use exported tb_to_ns() function in decrementer emulation
  powerpc/pseries: Export maximum memory value
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for perf counters setup
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for memory setup patching
  powerpc/code-patching: Add a helper to get the address of a patch_site
  Revert "powerpc/8xx: Use L1 entry APG to handle _PAGE_ACCESSED for CONFIG_SWAP"
  powerpc/8xx: add missing header in 8xx_mmu.c
  powerpc/8xx: Add DT node for using the SEC engine of the MPC885
  ...
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some things that I missed due to travel, or that came in late.

  Two fixes also going to stable:

   - A revert of a buggy change to the 8xx TLB miss handlers.

   - Our flushing of SPE (Signal Processing Engine) registers on fork
     was broken.

  Other changes:

   - A change to the KVM decrementer emulation to use proper APIs.

   - Some cleanups to the way we do code patching in the 8xx code.

   - Expose the maximum possible memory for the system in
     /proc/powerpc/lparcfg.

   - Merge some updates from Scott: "a couple device tree updates, and a
     fix for a missing prototype warning"

  A few other minor fixes and a handful of fixes for our selftests.

  Thanks to: Aravinda Prasad, Breno Leitao, Camelia Groza, Christophe
  Leroy, Felipe Rechia, Joel Stanley, Naveen N. Rao, Paul Mackerras,
  Scott Wood, Tyrel Datwyler"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (21 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix compilation issue due to asm label
  selftests/powerpc/cache_shape: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/switch_endian: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/pmu: Link ebb tests with -no-pie
  selftests/powerpc/signal: Fix out-of-tree build
  selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Fix out-of-tree build
  powerpc/xmon: Relax frame size for clang
  selftests: powerpc: Fix warning for security subdir
  selftests/powerpc: Relax L1d miss targets for rfi_flush test
  powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE
  powerpc/pseries: add missing cpumask.h include file
  selftests/powerpc: Fix ptrace tm failure
  KVM: PPC: Use exported tb_to_ns() function in decrementer emulation
  powerpc/pseries: Export maximum memory value
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for perf counters setup
  powerpc/8xx: Use patch_site for memory setup patching
  powerpc/code-patching: Add a helper to get the address of a patch_site
  Revert "powerpc/8xx: Use L1 entry APG to handle _PAGE_ACCESSED for CONFIG_SWAP"
  powerpc/8xx: add missing header in 8xx_mmu.c
  powerpc/8xx: Add DT node for using the SEC engine of the MPC885
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T21:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T21:36:21+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/8xx: Add DT node for using the SEC engine of the MPC885</title>
<updated>2018-10-23T00:11:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-18T13:57:22+00:00</published>
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The MPC885 has SEC engine version 1.2 with the following details:
- Number of Crypto channels: 1
- Exec Units: DEU, MDEU and AESU
- Available descriptors: 00010, 00100, 00110, 01000, 11000, 11010

It is also supposed to have descriptor 00000, but it doesn't work
properly so we keep it out for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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The MPC885 has SEC engine version 1.2 with the following details:
- Number of Crypto channels: 1
- Exec Units: DEU, MDEU and AESU
- Available descriptors: 00010, 00100, 00110, 01000, 11000, 11010

It is also supposed to have descriptor 00000, but it doesn't work
properly so we keep it out for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/dts/fsl: t2080rdb: reorder the Cortina PHY XFI lanes</title>
<updated>2018-10-20T23:23:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Camelia Groza</name>
<email>camelia.groza@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-20T11:47:01+00:00</published>
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According to the T2080RDB schematics, for the CS4315 PHY, the XFI 1 lane is
connected to SFP 2 and the XFI 2 lane is connected to SFP 1. Change the
device tree to reflect the correct PHY order and port association.

Signed-off-by: Camelia Groza &lt;camelia.groza@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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According to the T2080RDB schematics, for the CS4315 PHY, the XFI 1 lane is
connected to SFP 2 and the XFI 2 lane is connected to SFP 1. Change the
device tree to reflect the correct PHY order and port association.

Signed-off-by: Camelia Groza &lt;camelia.groza@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/boot: Build boot wrapper with optimisations</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T11:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T02:45:23+00:00</published>
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The boot wrapper is currently built with -Os. By building with O2 we
can meaningfully reduce the time decompressing the kernel.

I tested by comparing 10 runs of each option in Qemu and on hardware.
The kernel is compressed with KERNEL_XZ built with GCC 8.2.0-7ubuntu1.
The values are counts of the timebase.

Qemu TCG powernv Power8:

              Os            O2            O3
 median       10221123889   6201518438    6568186825
 stddev        1361267211    429090641     657930076
 improvement                    39.33%        35.74%

Palmetto Power8:

              Os            O2            O3
 median           50279         50599          35790
 stddev       992144533     627130655      623721078
 improvement                   36.79%         37.13%

Romulus Power9:

              Os            O2            O3
 median       670312391     454733720      448881398
 stddev          157569        107276         108760
 improvement                   32.16%         33.03%

TCG was quite noisy, with every few runs producing an outlier. Even so,
O2 is faster than O3. On hardware the numbers were less noisy and O3 is
slightly faster than O2.

The wrapper size increases when moving from Os. Comparing zImage.epapr
to the existing Os build using bloat-o-meter:

  Before=43401, After=56837 (13KB), chg +30.96%
  Before=43401, After=64305 (20KB), chg +48.16%

I chose O2 for a balance between Qemu and hardware speed up.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The boot wrapper is currently built with -Os. By building with O2 we
can meaningfully reduce the time decompressing the kernel.

I tested by comparing 10 runs of each option in Qemu and on hardware.
The kernel is compressed with KERNEL_XZ built with GCC 8.2.0-7ubuntu1.
The values are counts of the timebase.

Qemu TCG powernv Power8:

              Os            O2            O3
 median       10221123889   6201518438    6568186825
 stddev        1361267211    429090641     657930076
 improvement                    39.33%        35.74%

Palmetto Power8:

              Os            O2            O3
 median           50279         50599          35790
 stddev       992144533     627130655      623721078
 improvement                   36.79%         37.13%

Romulus Power9:

              Os            O2            O3
 median       670312391     454733720      448881398
 stddev          157569        107276         108760
 improvement                   32.16%         33.03%

TCG was quite noisy, with every few runs producing an outlier. Even so,
O2 is faster than O3. On hardware the numbers were less noisy and O3 is
slightly faster than O2.

The wrapper size increases when moving from Os. Comparing zImage.epapr
to the existing Os build using bloat-o-meter:

  Before=43401, After=56837 (13KB), chg +30.96%
  Before=43401, After=64305 (20KB), chg +48.16%

I chose O2 for a balance between Qemu and hardware speed up.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/boot: Disable vector instructions</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T11:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T02:45:22+00:00</published>
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This will avoid auto-vectorisation when building with higher
optimisation levels.

We don't know if the machine can support VSX and even if it's present
it's probably not going to be enabled at this point in boot.

These flag were both added prior to GCC 4.6 which is the minimum
compiler version supported by upstream, thanks to Segher for the
details.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This will avoid auto-vectorisation when building with higher
optimisation levels.

We don't know if the machine can support VSX and even if it's present
it's probably not going to be enabled at this point in boot.

These flag were both added prior to GCC 4.6 which is the minimum
compiler version supported by upstream, thanks to Segher for the
details.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/boot: Fix opal console in boot wrapper</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T11:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-09T23:28:03+00:00</published>
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As of commit 10c77dba40ff ("powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit
boot wrapper") the opal code is hidden behind CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER,
but the boot wrapper avoids include/linux, so it does not get the normal
Kconfig flags.

We can drop the guard entirely as in commit f8e8e69cea49 ("powerpc/boot:
Only build OPAL code when necessary") the makefile only includes opal.c
in the build if CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER is set.

Fixes: 10c77dba40ff ("powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit boot wrapper")
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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As of commit 10c77dba40ff ("powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit
boot wrapper") the opal code is hidden behind CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER,
but the boot wrapper avoids include/linux, so it does not get the normal
Kconfig flags.

We can drop the guard entirely as in commit f8e8e69cea49 ("powerpc/boot:
Only build OPAL code when necessary") the makefile only includes opal.c
in the build if CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER is set.

Fixes: 10c77dba40ff ("powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit boot wrapper")
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/boot: Expose Kconfig symbols to wrapper</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T11:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-09T23:28:02+00:00</published>
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Currently the wrapper is built without including anything in
$(src)/include/, which means there are no CONFIG_ symbols defined.
This means the platform specific serial drivers were never enabled.

We now copy the definitions into the boot directory, so any C file can
now include autoconf.h to depend on configuration options.

Fixes: 866bfc75f40e ("powerpc: conditionally compile platform-specific serial drivers")
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
[mpe: Fix to use $(objtree) to find autoconf.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently the wrapper is built without including anything in
$(src)/include/, which means there are no CONFIG_ symbols defined.
This means the platform specific serial drivers were never enabled.

We now copy the definitions into the boot directory, so any C file can
now include autoconf.h to depend on configuration options.

Fixes: 866bfc75f40e ("powerpc: conditionally compile platform-specific serial drivers")
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
[mpe: Fix to use $(objtree) to find autoconf.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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