linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S, branch v3.2

powerpc/32: Pass device tree address as u64 to machine_init

2011-09-19T23:19:47+00:00

u64 is used rather than phys_addr_t to keep things simple, as
this is called from assembly code.

Update callers to pass a 64-bit address in r3/r4.  Other unused
register assignments that were once parameters to machine_init
are dropped.

For FSL BookE, look up the physical address of the device tree from the
effective address passed in r3 by the loader.  This is required for
situations where memory does not start at zero (due to AMP or IOMMU-less
virtualization), and thus the IMA doesn't start at zero, and thus the
device tree effective address does not equal the physical address.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/47x: allow kernel to be loaded in higher physical memory

2011-07-12T14:34:24+00:00

The 44x code (which is shared by 47x) assumes the available physical memory
begins at 0x00000000.  This is not necessarily the case in an AMP
environment.

Support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 476 in order to allow the kernel to be
loaded into a higher memory range.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds 
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

powerpc: Remove second definition of STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD

2010-11-29T04:48:23+00:00

Since STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD is defined in asm/ptrace.h and that
is ASSEMBER safe, we can just include that instead of going via
asm-offsets.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/47x: Make sure mcsr is cleared before enabling machine check interrupts

2010-08-23T11:36:58+00:00

Clear the machine check syndrom register before enabling machine check
interrupts.  The initial state of the tlb can lead to parity errors being
flagged early after a cold boot.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

powerpc/4xx: Simple platform for the ISS 4xx simulator

2010-05-05T15:11:56+00:00

This is a trivial 4xx plaform that uses the new simple bsp from
Josh and is handy to use in simulators such as ISS or even Mambo
who don't properly implement most of the actual devices in the
SoC but really only the core.

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

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/44x: break out cpu init code into stand-alone function

2010-05-05T12:04:36+00:00

The 47x platform supports multiple cores and shares code with 44x.
Break out code that is common for initializing the primary and secondary
cpus into a function which can be called for both.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

powerpc/mm: Cleanup handling of execute permission

2009-08-27T03:12:51+00:00

This is an attempt at cleaning up a bit the way we handle execute
permission on powerpc. _PAGE_HWEXEC is gone, _PAGE_EXEC is now only
defined by CPUs that can do something with it, and the myriad of
#ifdef's in the I$/D$ coherency code is reduced to 2 cases that
hopefully should cover everything.

The logic on BookE is a little bit different than what it was though
not by much. Since now, _PAGE_EXEC will be set by the generic code
for executable pages, we need to filter out if they are unclean and
recover it. However, I don't expect the code to be more bloated than
it already was in that area due to that change.

I could boast that this brings proper enforcing of per-page execute
permissions to all BookE and 40x but in fact, we've had that now for
some time as a side effect of my previous rework in that area (and
I didn't even know it :-) We would only enable execute permission if
the page was cache clean and we would only cache clean it if we took
and exec fault. Since we now enforce that the later only work if
VM_EXEC is part of the VMA flags, we de-fact already enforce per-page
execute permissions... Unless I missed something

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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