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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, branch v2.6.30</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kconfig: Kill PPC_MULTIPLATFORM</title>
<updated>2009-03-11T06:11:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-10T17:53:27+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM is a remain of the pre-powerpc days and isn't
really meaningful anymore. It was basically equivalent to PPC64 || 6xx.

This removes it along with the following changes:

 - 32-bit platforms that relied on PPC32 &amp;&amp; PPC_MULTIPLATFORM now rely
   on 6xx which is what they want anyway.

 - A new symbol, PPC_BOOK3S, is defined that represent compliance with
   the "Server" variant of the architecture. This is set when either 6xx
   or PPC64 is set and open the door for future BOOK3E 64-bit.

 - 64-bit platforms that relied on PPC64 &amp;&amp; PPC_MULTIPLATFORM now use
   PPC64 &amp;&amp; PPC_BOOK3S

 - A separate and selectable CONFIG_PPC_OF_BOOT_TRAMPOLINE option is now
   used to control the use of prom_init.c

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM is a remain of the pre-powerpc days and isn't
really meaningful anymore. It was basically equivalent to PPC64 || 6xx.

This removes it along with the following changes:

 - 32-bit platforms that relied on PPC32 &amp;&amp; PPC_MULTIPLATFORM now rely
   on 6xx which is what they want anyway.

 - A new symbol, PPC_BOOK3S, is defined that represent compliance with
   the "Server" variant of the architecture. This is set when either 6xx
   or PPC64 is set and open the door for future BOOK3E 64-bit.

 - 64-bit platforms that relied on PPC64 &amp;&amp; PPC_MULTIPLATFORM now use
   PPC64 &amp;&amp; PPC_BOOK3S

 - A separate and selectable CONFIG_PPC_OF_BOOT_TRAMPOLINE option is now
   used to control the use of prom_init.c

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add support for using doorbells for SMP IPI</title>
<updated>2009-02-23T04:53:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-12T13:54:53+00:00</published>
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The e500mc supports the new msgsnd/doorbell mechanisms that were added in
the Power ISA 2.05 architecture.  We use the normal level doorbell for
doing SMP IPIs at this point.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The e500mc supports the new msgsnd/doorbell mechanisms that were added in
the Power ISA 2.05 architecture.  We use the normal level doorbell for
doing SMP IPIs at this point.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64: port of the function graph tracer</title>
<updated>2009-02-22T23:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-10T05:10:27+00:00</published>
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This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by
Frederic Weisbecker for the x86.

This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing.
PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later.

The trace produces a visual calling of functions:

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 # CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
  0)   2.224 us    |                        }
  0) ! 271.024 us  |                      }
  0) ! 320.080 us  |                    }
  0) ! 324.656 us  |                  }
  0) ! 329.136 us  |                }
  0)               |                .put_prev_task_fair() {
  0)               |                  .update_curr() {
  0)   2.240 us    |                    .update_min_vruntime();
  0)   6.512 us    |                  }
  0)   2.528 us    |                  .__enqueue_entity();
  0) + 15.536 us   |                }
  0)               |                .pick_next_task_fair() {
  0)   2.032 us    |                  .__pick_next_entity();
  0)   2.064 us    |                  .__clear_buddies();
  0)               |                  .set_next_entity() {
  0)   2.672 us    |                    .__dequeue_entity();
  0)   6.864 us    |                  }

Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.

Tested-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by
Frederic Weisbecker for the x86.

This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing.
PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later.

The trace produces a visual calling of functions:

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 # CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
  0)   2.224 us    |                        }
  0) ! 271.024 us  |                      }
  0) ! 320.080 us  |                    }
  0) ! 324.656 us  |                  }
  0) ! 329.136 us  |                }
  0)               |                .put_prev_task_fair() {
  0)               |                  .update_curr() {
  0)   2.240 us    |                    .update_min_vruntime();
  0)   6.512 us    |                  }
  0)   2.528 us    |                  .__enqueue_entity();
  0) + 15.536 us   |                }
  0)               |                .pick_next_task_fair() {
  0)   2.032 us    |                  .__pick_next_entity();
  0)   2.064 us    |                  .__clear_buddies();
  0)               |                  .set_next_entity() {
  0)   2.672 us    |                    .__dequeue_entity();
  0)   6.864 us    |                  }

Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.

Tested-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fsl-booke: Cleanup init/exception setup to be runtime</title>
<updated>2009-01-29T00:16:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-08T14:31:20+00:00</published>
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We currently have a few variants of fsl-booke processors (e500v1, e500v2,
e500mc, and e200).  They all have minor differences that we had previously
been handling via ifdefs.

To move towards having this support the following changes have been made:

* PID1, PID2 only exist on e500v1 &amp; e500v2 and should not be accessed on
  e500mc or e200.  We use MMUCFG[NPIDS] to determine which case we are
  since we only touch PID1/2 in extremely early init code.

* Not all IVORs exist on all the processors so introduce cpu_setup
  functions for each variant to setup the proper IVORs that are either
  unique or exist but have some variations between the processors

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We currently have a few variants of fsl-booke processors (e500v1, e500v2,
e500mc, and e200).  They all have minor differences that we had previously
been handling via ifdefs.

To move towards having this support the following changes have been made:

* PID1, PID2 only exist on e500v1 &amp; e500v2 and should not be accessed on
  e500mc or e200.  We use MMUCFG[NPIDS] to determine which case we are
  since we only touch PID1/2 in extremely early init code.

* Not all IVORs exist on all the processors so introduce cpu_setup
  functions for each variant to setup the proper IVORs that are either
  unique or exist but have some variations between the processors

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Rewrite sysfs processor cache info code</title>
<updated>2009-01-08T05:25:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>ntl@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-23T18:55:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93197a36a9c16a85fb24cf5a8639f7bf9af838a3'/>
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The current code for providing processor cache information in sysfs
has the following deficiencies:
- several complex functions that are hard to understand
- implicit recursion (cache_desc_release -&gt; kobject_put -&gt; cache_desc_release)
- explicit recursion (create_cache_index_info)
- use of two per-cpu arrays when one would suffice
- duplication of work on systems where CPUs share cache

Also, when I looked at implementing support for a shared_cpu_map
attribute, it was pretty much impossible to handle hotplug without
checking every single online CPU's cache_desc list and fixing things
up... not that this is a hot path, but it would have introduced
O(n^2)-ish behavior during boot.  Addressing this involved rethinking
the core data structures used, which didn't lend itself to an
incremental approach.

This implementation maintains a "forest" (potentially more than one
tree) of cache objects which reflects the system's cache topology.
Cache objects are instantiated as needed as CPUs come online.  A
per-cpu array is used mainly for sysfs-related bookkeeping; the
objects in the array just point to the appropriate points in the
forest.

This maintains compatibility with the existing code and includes some
enhancements:
- Implement the shared_cpu_map attribute, which is essential for
  enabling userspace to discover the system's overall cache topology.
- Use cache-block-size properties if cache-line-size is not available.

I chose to place this implementation in a new file since it would have
roughly doubled the size of sysfs.c, which is already kind of messy.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;ntl@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The current code for providing processor cache information in sysfs
has the following deficiencies:
- several complex functions that are hard to understand
- implicit recursion (cache_desc_release -&gt; kobject_put -&gt; cache_desc_release)
- explicit recursion (create_cache_index_info)
- use of two per-cpu arrays when one would suffice
- duplication of work on systems where CPUs share cache

Also, when I looked at implementing support for a shared_cpu_map
attribute, it was pretty much impossible to handle hotplug without
checking every single online CPU's cache_desc list and fixing things
up... not that this is a hot path, but it would have introduced
O(n^2)-ish behavior during boot.  Addressing this involved rethinking
the core data structures used, which didn't lend itself to an
incremental approach.

This implementation maintains a "forest" (potentially more than one
tree) of cache objects which reflects the system's cache topology.
Cache objects are instantiated as needed as CPUs come online.  A
per-cpu array is used mainly for sysfs-related bookkeeping; the
objects in the array just point to the appropriate points in the
forest.

This maintains compatibility with the existing code and includes some
enhancements:
- Implement the shared_cpu_map attribute, which is essential for
  enabling userspace to discover the system's overall cache topology.
- Use cache-block-size properties if cache-line-size is not available.

I chose to place this implementation in a new file since it would have
roughly doubled the size of sysfs.c, which is already kind of messy.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;ntl@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc</title>
<updated>2008-12-29T00:54:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-29T00:54:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179'/>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
  powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
  powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
  powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
  powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
  powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
  powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
  powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
  powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
  powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
  powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
  powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
  powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
  powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
  powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
  powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
  powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
  powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
  powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
  powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
  powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
  powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
  powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
  powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
  powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
  powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
  powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
  powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
  powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
  powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
  powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
  powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
  powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
  powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
  powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
  powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
  powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()</title>
<updated>2008-12-23T04:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Vorontsov</name>
<email>avorontsov@ru.mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-17T10:09:01+00:00</published>
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This replaces the dummy crash_setup_regs function with full-fledged
crash_setup_regs implementation.  On PPC32 we simply use the new
ppc_save_regs function to dump the registers.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;avorontsov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<pre>
This replaces the dummy crash_setup_regs function with full-fledged
crash_setup_regs implementation.  On PPC32 we simply use the new
ppc_save_regs function to dump the registers.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;avorontsov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump</title>
<updated>2008-12-23T04:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Vorontsov</name>
<email>avorontsov@ru.mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-17T10:08:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=322b439455ea62e6480e300c77b258e872896381'/>
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Today the arch/powerpc/xmon/setjmp.S file contains only the
xmon_save_regs function.  We want to use it for kdump purposes, so
let's move the file into arch/powerpc/kernel/ and give the function a
more generic name (ppc_save_regs).

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;avorontsov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<pre>
Today the arch/powerpc/xmon/setjmp.S file contains only the
xmon_save_regs function.  We want to use it for kdump purposes, so
let's move the file into arch/powerpc/kernel/ and give the function a
more generic name (ppc_save_regs).

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;avorontsov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ppc32: static ftrace fixes for PPC32</title>
<updated>2008-11-28T13:08:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srotedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-26T20:54:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f1eecf0e4f0796911cc076f38fcf05fea0b353d5'/>
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Impact: fix for PowerPC 32 code

There were some early init code that was not safe for static
ftrace to boot on my PowerBook. This code must only use relative
addressing, and static mcount performs a compare of the
ftrace_trace_function pointer, and gets that with an absolute address.
In the early init boot up code, this will cause a fault.

This patch removes tracing from the files containing the offending
functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix for PowerPC 32 code

There were some early init code that was not safe for static
ftrace to boot on my PowerBook. This code must only use relative
addressing, and static mcount performs a compare of the
ftrace_trace_function pointer, and gets that with an absolute address.
In the early init boot up code, this will cause a fault.

This patch removes tracing from the files containing the offending
functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER</title>
<updated>2008-10-20T16:27:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-06T23:06:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=606576ce816603d9fe1fb453a88bc6eea16ca709'/>
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<content type='text'>
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER.  The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.

This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER.  The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.

This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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