linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c, branch v2.6.19

[POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's

2006-10-25T01:54:07+00:00

This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up.
The main issue was that the construct:

        .long   label  (or .llong on 64 bits)

will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will
generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc,
which is not something we can deal with in the vdso.

The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like:

1:
        .long   label - 1b

That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of
code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry
itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've
modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest
of the kernel as well.

Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel
need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not
support 32 bits code with a statement of the form:

        .llong  label - 1b  (Or even just .llong label)

That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use
to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific
case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are
using a modified macro that generates:

        .long   0xffffffff
        .llong  label - 1b

Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by
the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always
before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the
other way around).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Consolidate feature fixup code

2006-10-25T01:42:10+00:00

There are currently two versions of the functions for applying the
feature fixups, one for CPU features and one for firmware features. In
addition, they are both in assembly and with separate implementations
for 32 and 64 bits. identify_cpu() is also implemented in assembly and
separately for 32 and 64 bits.

This patch replaces them with a pair of C functions. The call sites are
slightly moved on ppc64 as well to be called from C instead of from
assembly, though it's a very small change, and thus shouldn't cause any
problem.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix xmon=off and cleanup xmon initialisation

2006-10-04T04:52:22+00:00

My patch to make the early xmon logic work with earlier early param
parsing (480f6f35a149802a94ad5c1a2673ed6ec8d2c158) breaks xmon=off.

No one does this obviously as xmon rocks, but it should really work
as documented.

While fixing that it struck me that we could move the xmon param
handling into xmon.c, and also consolidate the
xmon_init()/do_early_xmon logic into xmon_setup(). This means
xmon=early drops into xmon a little earlier on 32-bit, but it
seems to work just fine.

Tested on PSERIES and CLASSIC32.

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

[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: use init_utsname when appropriate

2006-10-02T14:57:21+00:00

In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns is the
appropriate one to use.  This patch replaces those with a the init_utsname
helper.

Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname().  Hope I picked all the
	right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.  These are now changed to
	utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous
	patch (2/7)

[akpm@osdl.org: CIFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Andrey Savochkin 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300

2006-10-01T07:39:22+00:00

Remove unused global SYSRQ_KEY from ppc and powerpc
Remove unused define SYSRQ_KEY from sh/sh64 and h8300
Remove unused pckbd_sysrq_xlate and kbd_sysrq_xlate usage

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] powerpc: Reduce default cacheline size to 64 bytes

2006-09-13T08:39:52+00:00

Reduce default cacheline size on 64-bit powerpc from 128 bytes to 64.
This is the architected minimum. In most cases we'll still end up using
cache line information from the device tree, but defaults are used during
early boot and doing a few dcbst/icbi's too many there won't do any harm.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Constify & voidify get_property()

2006-07-31T05:55:04+00:00

Now that get_property() returns a void *, there's no need to cast its
return value. Also, treat the return value as const, so we can
constify get_property later.

powerpc core changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] iseries: Move ItLpNaca into platforms/iseries

2006-07-13T08:42:52+00:00

Move ItLpNaca into platforms/iseries now that it's not used elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell

[POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change platforms to use it

2006-07-03T11:36:01+00:00

This adds the new irq remapper core and removes the old one.  Because
there are some fundamental conflicts with the old code, like the value
of NO_IRQ which I'm now setting to 0 (as per discussions with Linus),
etc..., this commit also changes the relevant platform and driver code
over to use the new remapper (so as not to cause difficulties later
in bisecting).

This patch removes the old pre-parsing of the open firmware interrupt
tree along with all the bogus assumptions it made to try to renumber
interrupts according to the platform. This is all to be handled by the
new code now.

For the pSeries XICS interrupt controller, a single remapper host is
created for the whole machine regardless of how many interrupt
presentation and source controllers are found, and it's set to match
any device node that isn't a 8259.  That works fine on pSeries and
avoids having to deal with some of the complexities of split source
controllers vs. presentation controllers in the pSeries device trees.

The powerpc i8259 PIC driver now always requests the legacy interrupt
range. It also has the feature of being able to match any device node
(including NULL) if passed no device node as an input. That will help
porting over platforms with broken device-trees like Pegasos who don't
have a proper interrupt tree.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk