linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c, branch v3.17

of/fdt: update of_get_flat_dt_prop in prep for libfdt

2014-04-30T05:59:15+00:00

Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop
call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return
value const and the property length ptr type an int.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Tested-by: Grant Likely 
Tested-by: Stephen Chivers

powerpc/le: Enable RTAS events support

2014-04-07T00:33:12+00:00

The current kernel code assumes big endian and parses RTAS events all
wrong. The most visible effect is that we cannot honor EPOW events,
meaning, for example, we cannot shut down a guest properly from the
hypervisor.

This new patch is largely inspired by Nathan's work: we get rid of all
the bit fields in the RTAS event structures (even the unused ones, for
consistency). We also introduce endian safe accessors for the fields used
by the kernel (trivial rtas_error_type() accessor added for consistency).

Cc: Nathan Fontenot 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/le: Big endian arguments for ppc_rtas()

2014-03-23T22:48:36+00:00

The ppc_rtas() syscall allows userspace to interact directly with RTAS.
For the moment, it assumes every thing is big endian and returns either
EINVAL or EFAULT when called in a little endian environment.

As suggested by Benjamin, to avoid bugs when userspace wants to pass
a non 32 bit value to RTAS, it is far better to stick with a simple
rationale: ppc_rtas() should be called with a big endian rtas_args
structure.

With this patch, it is now up to userspace to forge big endian arguments,
as expected by RTAS.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Make RTAS calls endian safe

2013-08-14T05:33:22+00:00

RTAS expects arguments in the call buffer to be big endian so we
need to byteswap on little endian builds

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Make RTAS device tree accesses endian safe

2013-08-14T05:33:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Delete __cpuinit usage from all users

2013-07-01T01:10:36+00:00

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the powerpc uses of the __cpuinit macros.  There
are no __CPUINIT users in assembly files in powerpc.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Matt Porter 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Bring all threads online prior to migration/hibernation

2013-05-14T04:36:29+00:00

This patch brings online all threads which are present but not online
prior to migration/hibernation.  After migration/hibernation those
threads are taken back offline.

During migration/hibernation all online CPUs must call H_JOIN, this is
required by the hypervisor.  Without this patch, threads that are offline
(H_CEDE'd) will not be woken to make the H_JOIN call and the OS will be
deadlocked (all threads either JOIN'd or CEDE'd).

Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc+of: Remove the pSeries_reconfig.h file

2012-11-15T01:56:55+00:00

Remove the pSeries_reconfig.h header file. At this point there is only one
definition in the file, pSeries_coalesce_init(), which can be
moved to rtas.h.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot 
Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

2012-03-28T22:58:21+00:00

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC

2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org