linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S, branch v2.6.28

powerpc: Fix system calls on Cell entered with XER.SO=1

2008-11-30T22:40:19+00:00

It turns out that on Cell, on a kernel with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
= y, if a program sets the SO (summary overflow) bit in the XER and
then does a system call, the SO bit in CR0 will be set on return
regardless of whether the system call detected an error.  Since CR0.SO
is used as the error indication from the system call, this means that
all system calls appear to fail.

The reason is that the workaround for the timebase bug on Cell uses a
compare instruction.  With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, the
ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY macro reads the timebase, so we end up doing a
compare instruction, which copies XER.SO to CR0.SO.  Since we were
doing this in the system call entry patch after clearing CR0.SO but
before saving the CR, this meant that the saved CR image had CR0.SO
set if XER.SO was set on entry.

This fixes it by moving the clearing of CR0.SO to after the
ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY call in the system call entry path.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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

powerpc: Use LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE only for constants on 64-bit

2008-09-15T18:08:35+00:00

Using LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE to get the address of kernel symbols
generates 5 instructions where LOAD_REG_ADDR can do it in one,
and will generate R_PPC64_ADDR16_* relocations in the output when
we get to making the kernel as a position-independent executable,
which we'd rather not have to handle.  This changes various bits
of assembly code to use LOAD_REG_ADDR when we need to get the
address of a symbol, or to use suitable position-independent code
for cases where we can't access the TOC for various reasons, or
if we're not running at the address we were linked at.

It also cleans up a few minor things; there's no reason to save and
restore SRR0/1 around RTAS calls, __mmu_off can get the return
address from LR more conveniently than the caller can supply it in
R4 (and we already assume elsewhere that EA == RA if the MMU is on
in early boot), and enable_64b_mode was using 5 instructions where
2 would do.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Streamline ret_from_except_lite for non-iSeries platforms

2008-08-20T06:34:57+00:00

There is a small passage of code in ret_from_except_lite which is
only required on iSeries.  For a multi-platform kernel on non-iSeries
machines this means we end up executing ~15 nops in ret_from_except_lite.

It would be nicer if non-iSeries could skip the code entirely, and on
iSeries we can jump out of line to execute the code.

I have no performance numbers to justify this, other than the assertion
that executing 15 nops takes longer than executing 0.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support for tracehook

2008-07-28T06:30:50+00:00

This adds TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support for powerpc.  When set,
we call tracehook_notify_resume() on the way to user mode.
This overloads do_signal() to do the work, but changes its
arguments to it has the TIF_* bits handy in a register and
drops the useless first argument that was always zero.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Make syscall tracing use tracehook.h helpers

2008-07-28T06:30:49+00:00

This changes powerpc syscall tracing to use the new tracehook.h entry
points.  There is no change, only cleanup.

In addition, the assembly changes allow do_syscall_trace_enter() to
abort the syscall without losing the information about the original
r0 value.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge commit '85082fd7cbe3173198aac0eb5e85ab1edcc6352c' into test-build

2008-07-15T05:44:51+00:00

Manual fixup of:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig

powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore, ptrace and signal support

2008-07-01T01:28:50+00:00

This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the
VSX load/stores when VSX is available.  This will make FP context
save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available,
as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits.

Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state.

The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31
doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers.  Backward
compatibility is maintained.

The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full
registers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Use an alternative feature section in entry_64.S

2008-07-01T01:28:31+00:00

Use an alternative feature section in _switch. There are three cases
handled here, either we don't have an SLB, in which case we jump over the
entire code section, or if we do we either do or don't have 1TB segments.

Boot tested on Power3, Power5 and Power5+.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip

2008-06-23T20:10:56+00:00

Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar 
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar