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<entry>
<title>memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES</title>
<updated>2018-10-31T15:54:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T22:09:57+00:00</published>
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When a memblock allocation APIs are called with align = 0, the alignment
is implicitly set to SMP_CACHE_BYTES.

Implicit alignment is done deep in the memblock allocator and it can
come as a surprise.  Not that such an alignment would be wrong even
when used incorrectly but it is better to be explicit for the sake of
clarity and the prinicple of the least surprise.

Replace all such uses of memblock APIs with the 'align' parameter
explicitly set to SMP_CACHE_BYTES and stop implicit alignment assignment
in the memblock internal allocation functions.

For the case when memblock APIs are used via helper functions, e.g.  like
iommu_arena_new_node() in Alpha, the helper functions were detected with
Coccinelle's help and then manually examined and updated where
appropriate.

The direct memblock APIs users were updated using the semantic patch below:

@@
expression size, min_addr, max_addr, nid;
@@
(
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, 0, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr, max_addr,
nid)
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(size, 0, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr, max_addr,
nid)
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid(size, 0, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_try_nid(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
|
- memblock_alloc(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_raw(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_raw(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_from(size, 0, min_addr)
+ memblock_alloc_from(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr)
|
- memblock_alloc_nopanic(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_low(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_low(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_low_nopanic(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_low_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_from_nopanic(size, 0, min_addr)
+ memblock_alloc_from_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr)
|
- memblock_alloc_node(size, 0, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_node(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, nid)
)

[mhocko@suse.com: changelog update]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix missed uses of implicit alignment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181016133656.GA10925@rapoport-lnx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538687224-17535-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;	[MIPS]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;	[powerpc]
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When a memblock allocation APIs are called with align = 0, the alignment
is implicitly set to SMP_CACHE_BYTES.

Implicit alignment is done deep in the memblock allocator and it can
come as a surprise.  Not that such an alignment would be wrong even
when used incorrectly but it is better to be explicit for the sake of
clarity and the prinicple of the least surprise.

Replace all such uses of memblock APIs with the 'align' parameter
explicitly set to SMP_CACHE_BYTES and stop implicit alignment assignment
in the memblock internal allocation functions.

For the case when memblock APIs are used via helper functions, e.g.  like
iommu_arena_new_node() in Alpha, the helper functions were detected with
Coccinelle's help and then manually examined and updated where
appropriate.

The direct memblock APIs users were updated using the semantic patch below:

@@
expression size, min_addr, max_addr, nid;
@@
(
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, 0, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr, max_addr,
nid)
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(size, 0, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr, max_addr,
nid)
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid(size, 0, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_try_nid(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr, max_addr, nid)
|
- memblock_alloc(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_raw(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_raw(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_from(size, 0, min_addr)
+ memblock_alloc_from(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr)
|
- memblock_alloc_nopanic(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_low(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_low(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_low_nopanic(size, 0)
+ memblock_alloc_low_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
|
- memblock_alloc_from_nopanic(size, 0, min_addr)
+ memblock_alloc_from_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, min_addr)
|
- memblock_alloc_node(size, 0, nid)
+ memblock_alloc_node(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, nid)
)

[mhocko@suse.com: changelog update]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix missed uses of implicit alignment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181016133656.GA10925@rapoport-lnx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538687224-17535-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;	[MIPS]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;	[powerpc]
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memblock: rename memblock_alloc{_nid,_try_nid} to memblock_phys_alloc*</title>
<updated>2018-10-31T15:54:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T22:07:59+00:00</published>
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Make it explicit that the caller gets a physical address rather than a
virtual one.

This will also allow using meblock_alloc prefix for memblock allocations
returning virtual address, which is done in the following patches.

The conversion is done using the following semantic patch:

@@
expression e1, e2, e3;
@@
(
- memblock_alloc(e1, e2)
+ memblock_phys_alloc(e1, e2)
|
- memblock_alloc_nid(e1, e2, e3)
+ memblock_phys_alloc_nid(e1, e2, e3)
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid(e1, e2, e3)
+ memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid(e1, e2, e3)
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-7-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make it explicit that the caller gets a physical address rather than a
virtual one.

This will also allow using meblock_alloc prefix for memblock allocations
returning virtual address, which is done in the following patches.

The conversion is done using the following semantic patch:

@@
expression e1, e2, e3;
@@
(
- memblock_alloc(e1, e2)
+ memblock_phys_alloc(e1, e2)
|
- memblock_alloc_nid(e1, e2, e3)
+ memblock_phys_alloc_nid(e1, e2, e3)
|
- memblock_alloc_try_nid(e1, e2, e3)
+ memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid(e1, e2, e3)
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-7-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'topic/paca' into next</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T22:09:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-30T13:11:24+00:00</published>
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Bring in yet another series that touches KVM code, and might need to
be merged into the kvm-ppc branch to resolve conflicts.

This required some changes in pnv_power9_force_smt4_catch/release()
due to the paca array becomming an array of pointers.
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Bring in yet another series that touches KVM code, and might need to
be merged into the kvm-ppc branch to resolve conflicts.

This required some changes in pnv_power9_force_smt4_catch/release()
due to the paca array becomming an array of pointers.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Allocate pacas per node</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T13:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:08:20+00:00</published>
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Per-node allocations are possible on 64s with radix that does
not have the bolted SLB limitation.

Hash would be able to do the same if all CPUs had the bottom of
their node-local memory bolted as well. This is left as an
exercise for the reader.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Add dummy definition of boot_cpuid for !SMP]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Per-node allocations are possible on 64s with radix that does
not have the bolted SLB limitation.

Hash would be able to do the same if all CPUs had the bottom of
their node-local memory bolted as well. This is left as an
exercise for the reader.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Add dummy definition of boot_cpuid for !SMP]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Defer paca allocation until memory topology is discovered</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T12:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:08:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Rename the dummy allocate_pacas() to fix 32-bit build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Rename the dummy allocate_pacas() to fix 32-bit build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Allocate slb_shadow structures individually</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T12:34:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:08:14+00:00</published>
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slb_shadow structures are avoided for radix environment.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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slb_shadow structures are avoided for radix environment.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Allocate LPPACAs individually</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T12:34:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:08:13+00:00</published>
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We no longer allocate lppacas in an array, so this patch removes the
1kB static alignment for the structure, and enforces the PAPR
alignment requirements at allocation time. We can not reduce the 1kB
allocation size however, due to existing KVM hypervisors.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We no longer allocate lppacas in an array, so this patch removes the
1kB static alignment for the structure, and enforces the PAPR
alignment requirements at allocation time. We can not reduce the 1kB
allocation size however, due to existing KVM hypervisors.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Use array of paca pointers and allocate pacas individually</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T12:34:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:08:12+00:00</published>
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Change the paca array into an array of pointers to pacas. Allocate
pacas individually.

This allows flexibility in where the PACAs are allocated. Future work
will allocate them node-local. Platforms that don't have address limits
on PACAs would be able to defer PACA allocations until later in boot
rather than allocate all possible ones up-front then freeing unused.

This is slightly more overhead (one additional indirection) for cross
CPU paca references, but those aren't too common.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Change the paca array into an array of pointers to pacas. Allocate
pacas individually.

This allows flexibility in where the PACAs are allocated. Future work
will allocate them node-local. Platforms that don't have address limits
on PACAs would be able to defer PACA allocations until later in boot
rather than allocate all possible ones up-front then freeing unused.

This is slightly more overhead (one additional indirection) for cross
CPU paca references, but those aren't too common.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc/64s: Do not allocate lppaca if we are not virtualized</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T12:34:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:08:11+00:00</published>
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The "lppaca" is a structure registered with the hypervisor. This is
unnecessary when running on non-virtualised platforms. One field from
the lppaca (pmcregs_in_use) is also used by the host, so move the host
part out into the paca (lppaca field is still updated in
guest mode).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix non-pseries build with some #ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The "lppaca" is a structure registered with the hypervisor. This is
unnecessary when running on non-virtualised platforms. One field from
the lppaca (pmcregs_in_use) is also used by the host, so move the host
part out into the paca (lppaca field is still updated in
guest mode).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix non-pseries build with some #ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm/slice: Allow up to 64 low slices</title>
<updated>2018-03-05T22:21:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-22T14:27:28+00:00</published>
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While the implementation of the "slices" address space allows
a significant amount of high slices, it limits the number of
low slices to 16 due to the use of a single u64 low_slices_psize
element in struct mm_context_t

On the 8xx, the minimum slice size is the size of the area
covered by a single PMD entry, ie 4M in 4K pages mode and 64M in
16K pages mode. This means we could have at least 64 slices.

In order to override this limitation, this patch switches the
handling of low_slices_psize to char array as done already for
high_slices_psize.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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While the implementation of the "slices" address space allows
a significant amount of high slices, it limits the number of
low slices to 16 due to the use of a single u64 low_slices_psize
element in struct mm_context_t

On the 8xx, the minimum slice size is the size of the area
covered by a single PMD entry, ie 4M in 4K pages mode and 64M in
16K pages mode. This means we could have at least 64 slices.

In order to override this limitation, this patch switches the
handling of low_slices_psize to char array as done already for
high_slices_psize.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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