linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S, branch v2.6.37

powerpc/47x: Base ppc476 support

2010-05-05T13:11:10+00:00

This patch adds the base support for the 476 processor.  The code was
primarily written by Ben Herrenschmidt and Torez Smith, but I've been
maintaining it for a while.

The goal is to have a single binary that will run on 44x and 47x, but
we still have some details to work out.  The biggest is that the L1 cache
line size differs on the two platforms, but it's currently a compile-time
option.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Torez Smith  
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)

2009-08-20T00:12:27+00:00

The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in
low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu
global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer.

We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers
as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some
of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc..
and the current choice isn't always the best.

This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the
usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement
and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to
what those are used for on each processor family.

The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM
or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all
the SPRGs.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Add irqtrace support for 32-bit powerpc

2009-06-26T04:37:27+00:00

Based on initial work from: Dale Farnsworth 

Add the low level irq tracing hooks for 32-bit powerpc needed
to enable full lockdep functionality.

The approach taken to deal with the code in entry_32.S is that
we don't trace all the transitions of MSR:EE when we just turn
it off to peek at TI_FLAGS without races. Only when we are
calling into C code or returning from exceptions with a state
that have changed from what lockdep thinks.

There's a little bugger though: If we take an exception that
keeps interrupts enabled (such as an alignment exception) while
interrupts are enabled, we will call trace_hardirqs_on() on the
way back spurriously. Not a big deal, but to get rid of it would
require remembering in pt_regs that the exception was one of the
type that kept interrupts enabled which we don't know at this
stage. (Well, we could test all cases for regs->trap but that
sucks too much).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Tested-by: Kumar Gala

powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and support

2009-02-22T23:48:56+00:00

Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.

We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.

Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc32, ftrace: dynamic function graph tracer

2009-02-22T23:48:55+00:00

This patch gets function graph tracing working with dynamic function
tracer on PowerPC32.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc32, ftrace: port function graph tracer to ppc32, static only

2009-02-22T23:48:55+00:00

This patch ports the function graph tracer for PowerPC, but only
for static function tracing.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc32, ftrace: save and restore mcount regs with macro

2009-02-22T23:48:54+00:00

Impact: clean up

Use a macro to save and restore the registers for PowerPC32,
since that code is duplicated.

This is similar to the work done by Cyrill Gorcunov for the
mcount code in x86_64.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/book-3e: Introduce concept of Book-3e MMU

2009-02-12T22:51:33+00:00

The Power ISA 2.06 spec introduces a standard MMU programming model that
is based on the Freescale Book-E MMU programing model.  The Freescale
version is pretty backwards compatiable with the ISA 2.06 definition so
we are starting to refactor some of the Freescale code so it can be
easily shared.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

powerpc: ftrace, do nothing in mcount call for dyn ftrace

2008-11-28T13:07:45+00:00

Impact: quicken mcount calls that are not replaced by dyn ftrace

Dynamic ftrace no longer does on the fly recording of mcount locations.
The mcount locations are now found at compile time. The mcount
function no longer needs to store registers and call a stub function.
It can now just simply return.

Since there are some functions that do not get converted to a nop
(.init sections and other code that may disappear), this patch should
help speed up that code.

Also, the stub for mcount on PowerPC 32 can not be a simple branch
link register like it is on PowerPC 64. According to the ABI specification:

"The _mcount routine is required to restore the link register from
 the stack so that the profiling code can be inserted transparently,
 whether or not the profiled function saves the link register itself."

This means that we must restore the link register that was used
to make the call to mcount.  The minimal mcount function for PPC32
ends up being:

 mcount:
        mflr    r0
        mtctr   r0
        lwz     r0, 4(r1)
        mtlr    r0
        bctr

Where we move the link register used to call mcount into the
ctr register, and then restore the link register from the stack.
Then we use the ctr register to jump back to the mcount caller.
The r0 register is free for us to use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER

2008-10-20T16:27:03+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar