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<title>[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc</title>
<updated>2006-03-29T02:44:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki</name>
<email>kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
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<published>2006-03-28T22:50:51+00:00</published>
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for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs.  We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs.  This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.

We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.

This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs.  We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs.  This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.

We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.

This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>Merge ../linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2006-03-17T01:01:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
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<published>2006-03-17T01:01:19+00:00</published>
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<title>powerpc: Fix problem with time going backwards</title>
<updated>2006-03-16T05:54:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-15T02:47:15+00:00</published>
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The recent changes to keep gettimeofday in sync with xtime had the side
effect that it was occasionally possible for the time reported by
gettimeofday to go back by a microsecond.  There were two reasons:
(1) when we recalculated the offsets used by gettimeofday every 2^31
timebase ticks, we lost an accumulated fractional microsecond, and
(2) because the update is done some time after the notional start of
jiffy, if ntp is slowing the clock, it is possible to see time go backwards
when the timebase factor gets reduced.

This fixes it by (a) slowing the gettimeofday clock by about 1us in
2^31 timebase ticks (a factor of less than 1 in 3.7 million), and (b)
adjusting the timebase offsets in the rare case that the gettimeofday
result could possibly go backwards (i.e. when ntp is slowing the clock
and the timer interrupt is late).  In this case the adjustment will
reduce to zero eventually because of (a).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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The recent changes to keep gettimeofday in sync with xtime had the side
effect that it was occasionally possible for the time reported by
gettimeofday to go back by a microsecond.  There were two reasons:
(1) when we recalculated the offsets used by gettimeofday every 2^31
timebase ticks, we lost an accumulated fractional microsecond, and
(2) because the update is done some time after the notional start of
jiffy, if ntp is slowing the clock, it is possible to see time go backwards
when the timebase factor gets reduced.

This fixes it by (a) slowing the gettimeofday clock by about 1us in
2^31 timebase ticks (a factor of less than 1 in 3.7 million), and (b)
adjusting the timebase offsets in the rare case that the gettimeofday
result could possibly go backwards (i.e. when ntp is slowing the clock
and the timer interrupt is late).  In this case the adjustment will
reduce to zero eventually because of (a).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Export variables used in conversions to/from cputime_t</title>
<updated>2006-02-27T04:41:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-27T04:41:47+00:00</published>
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The inline cputime_to_foo and foo_to_cputime conversion functions in
include/asm-powerpc/cputime.h refer to 5 variables, which need to be
exported if those functions are to be usable from modules.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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The inline cputime_to_foo and foo_to_cputime conversion functions in
include/asm-powerpc/cputime.h refer to 5 variables, which need to be
exported if those functions are to be usable from modules.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Implement accurate task and CPU time accounting</title>
<updated>2006-02-24T03:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-23T23:06:59+00:00</published>
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This implements accurate task and cpu time accounting for 64-bit
powerpc kernels.  Instead of accounting a whole jiffy of time to a
task on a timer interrupt because that task happened to be running at
the time, we now account time in units of timebase ticks according to
the actual time spent by the task in user mode and kernel mode.  We
also count the time spent processing hardware and software interrupts
accurately.  This is conditional on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.  If
that is not set, we do tick-based approximate accounting as before.

To get this accurate information, we read either the PURR (processor
utilization of resources register) on POWER5 machines, or the timebase
on other machines on

* each entry to the kernel from usermode
* each exit to usermode
* transitions between process context, hard irq context and soft irq
  context in kernel mode
* context switches.

On POWER5 systems with shared-processor logical partitioning we also
read both the PURR and the timebase at each timer interrupt and
context switch in order to determine how much time has been taken by
the hypervisor to run other partitions ("steal" time).  Unfortunately,
since we need values of the PURR on both threads at the same time to
accurately calculate the steal time, and since we can only calculate
steal time on a per-core basis, the apportioning of the steal time
between idle time (time which we ceded to the hypervisor in the idle
loop) and actual stolen time is somewhat approximate at the moment.

This is all based quite heavily on what s390 does, and it uses the
generic interfaces that were added by the s390 developers,
i.e. account_system_time(), account_user_time(), etc.

This patch doesn't add any new interfaces between the kernel and
userspace, and doesn't change the units in which time is reported to
userspace by things such as /proc/stat, /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat, getrusage(),
times(), etc.  Internally the various task and cpu times are stored in
timebase units, but they are converted to USER_HZ units (1/100th of a
second) when reported to userspace.  Some precision is therefore lost
but there should not be any accumulating error, since the internal
accumulation is at full precision.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This implements accurate task and cpu time accounting for 64-bit
powerpc kernels.  Instead of accounting a whole jiffy of time to a
task on a timer interrupt because that task happened to be running at
the time, we now account time in units of timebase ticks according to
the actual time spent by the task in user mode and kernel mode.  We
also count the time spent processing hardware and software interrupts
accurately.  This is conditional on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.  If
that is not set, we do tick-based approximate accounting as before.

To get this accurate information, we read either the PURR (processor
utilization of resources register) on POWER5 machines, or the timebase
on other machines on

* each entry to the kernel from usermode
* each exit to usermode
* transitions between process context, hard irq context and soft irq
  context in kernel mode
* context switches.

On POWER5 systems with shared-processor logical partitioning we also
read both the PURR and the timebase at each timer interrupt and
context switch in order to determine how much time has been taken by
the hypervisor to run other partitions ("steal" time).  Unfortunately,
since we need values of the PURR on both threads at the same time to
accurately calculate the steal time, and since we can only calculate
steal time on a per-core basis, the apportioning of the steal time
between idle time (time which we ceded to the hypervisor in the idle
loop) and actual stolen time is somewhat approximate at the moment.

This is all based quite heavily on what s390 does, and it uses the
generic interfaces that were added by the s390 developers,
i.e. account_system_time(), account_user_time(), etc.

This patch doesn't add any new interfaces between the kernel and
userspace, and doesn't change the units in which time is reported to
userspace by things such as /proc/stat, /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat, getrusage(),
times(), etc.  Internally the various task and cpu times are stored in
timebase units, but they are converted to USER_HZ units (1/100th of a
second) when reported to userspace.  Some precision is therefore lost
but there should not be any accumulating error, since the internal
accumulation is at full precision.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Keep xtime and gettimeofday in sync</title>
<updated>2006-02-19T23:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-19T23:38:56+00:00</published>
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This fixes a regression which was introduced by moving ppc32 to use
the same sort of lockless gettimeofday as ppc64 has been using for
some time.  This involves getting the timebase and performing some
simple arithmetic to convert it to seconds and microseconds.  However,
the factor and offset used there weren't being updated when NTP
varied the tick length using adjtimex.  64-bit didn't notice the
problem because it had a hook in the 32-bit adjtimex compat routine
that attempted to work out what the generic timekeeping code would
do and alter the factor and offset to match.  However, that code
was very complex and it wasn't clear that it still matched what the
generic code would do.

Now we use the generic current_tick_length() routine that was recently
added to check that the current tick will be as long as we expect; if
not we recompute the factor and offset.  This keeps gettimeofday and
xtime in sync.  In addition we check that gettimeofday hasn't got ahead
of xtime on each timer interrupt; if it has, we resync.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This fixes a regression which was introduced by moving ppc32 to use
the same sort of lockless gettimeofday as ppc64 has been using for
some time.  This involves getting the timebase and performing some
simple arithmetic to convert it to seconds and microseconds.  However,
the factor and offset used there weren't being updated when NTP
varied the tick length using adjtimex.  64-bit didn't notice the
problem because it had a hook in the 32-bit adjtimex compat routine
that attempted to work out what the generic timekeeping code would
do and alter the factor and offset to match.  However, that code
was very complex and it wasn't clear that it still matched what the
generic code would do.

Now we use the generic current_tick_length() routine that was recently
added to check that the current tick will be as long as we expect; if
not we recompute the factor and offset.  This keeps gettimeofday and
xtime in sync.  In addition we check that gettimeofday hasn't got ahead
of xtime on each timer interrupt; if it has, we resync.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: remove pointer/integer confusion in generic_calibrate_decr</title>
<updated>2006-02-07T10:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-04T09:34:56+00:00</published>
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remove pointer/integer confusion

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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remove pointer/integer confusion

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Remove lppaca structure from the PACA</title>
<updated>2006-01-13T10:17:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-12T23:26:42+00:00</published>
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At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries
hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level
per-cpu structure.  This doesn't have to be so, the patch below
removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures.

This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel
memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and
hypervisor portions of every PACA.  On the other hand it means an
extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca.

The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca
address to a local variable for no particular reason.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;dwg@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries
hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level
per-cpu structure.  This doesn't have to be so, the patch below
removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures.

This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel
memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and
hypervisor portions of every PACA.  On the other hand it means an
extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca.

The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca
address to a local variable for no particular reason.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;dwg@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Remove some unneeded fields from the paca</title>
<updated>2006-01-09T03:50:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-24T05:51:31+00:00</published>
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This patch removes several unnecessary fields from the paca:

- next_jiffy_update_tb was simply unused.  Remove trivially.

- The exdsi exception save area was not used.  There were plans to use
  it, but they never seem to have gone anywhere.  If they ever do, we
  can put it back.  Remove from the paca, and from asm-offsets.c

- The default_decr field was used from asm, but was only ever assigned
  the value of tb_ticks_per_jiffy.  Just access tb_ticks_per_jiffy from
  asm directly instead.

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR and iSeries RS64.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;dwg@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This patch removes several unnecessary fields from the paca:

- next_jiffy_update_tb was simply unused.  Remove trivially.

- The exdsi exception save area was not used.  There were plans to use
  it, but they never seem to have gone anywhere.  If they ever do, we
  can put it back.  Remove from the paca, and from asm-offsets.c

- The default_decr field was used from asm, but was only ever assigned
  the value of tb_ticks_per_jiffy.  Just access tb_ticks_per_jiffy from
  asm directly instead.

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR and iSeries RS64.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;dwg@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix delay functions for 601 processors</title>
<updated>2005-11-18T03:08:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-18T02:44:17+00:00</published>
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My earlier merge of delay.h introduced a timebase-based udelay for
32-bit machines but also broke the 601, which doesn't have the
timebase register.  This fixes it by using the 601's RTC register on
the 601, and also moves __delay() and udelay() to be out-of-line in
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c.  These functions aren't really performance
critical, after all.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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My earlier merge of delay.h introduced a timebase-based udelay for
32-bit machines but also broke the 601, which doesn't have the
timebase register.  This fixes it by using the 601's RTC register on
the 601, and also moves __delay() and udelay() to be out-of-line in
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c.  These functions aren't really performance
critical, after all.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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