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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: properly configure DDR/P5IOC children devs</title>
<updated>2006-03-16T05:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Rose</name>
<email>johnrose@austin.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-14T23:46:45+00:00</published>
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The dynamic add path for PCI Host Bridges can fail to configure children
adapters under P5IOC controllers.  It fails to properly fixup bus/device
resources, and it fails to properly enable EEH.  Both of these steps
need to occur before any children devices are enabled in
pci_bus_add_devices().

Signed-off-by: John Rose &lt;johnrose@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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The dynamic add path for PCI Host Bridges can fail to configure children
adapters under P5IOC controllers.  It fails to properly fixup bus/device
resources, and it fails to properly enable EEH.  Both of these steps
need to occur before any children devices are enabled in
pci_bus_add_devices().

Signed-off-by: John Rose &lt;johnrose@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: remove duplicate EXPORT_SYMBOLS</title>
<updated>2006-03-16T05:55:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-14T20:21:11+00:00</published>
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remove warnings when building a 64bit kernel.
smp_call_function triggers also with 32bit kernel.

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'smp_call_function' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:164:EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function);
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:300:EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function);

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'ioremap' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:113:EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap);
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c:321:EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap);

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol '__ioremap' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:117:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ioremap);
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c:322:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ioremap);

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'iounmap' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:118:EXPORT_SYMBOL(iounmap);
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c:323:EXPORT_SYMBOL(iounmap);

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 warnings when building a 64bit kernel.
smp_call_function triggers also with 32bit kernel.

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'smp_call_function' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:164:EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function);
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:300:EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function);

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'ioremap' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:113:EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap);
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c:321:EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap);

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol '__ioremap' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:117:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ioremap);
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c:322:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ioremap);

WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'iounmap' previous definition was in vmlinux
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:118:EXPORT_SYMBOL(iounmap);
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c:323:EXPORT_SYMBOL(iounmap);

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>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: RTC memory corruption</title>
<updated>2006-03-16T05:55:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-14T06:11:51+00:00</published>
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We should be memset'ing the data we are pointing to, not the pointer
itself.  This is in an error path so we probably don't hit it much.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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We should be memset'ing the data we are pointing to, not the pointer
itself.  This is in an error path so we probably don't hit it much.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge</title>
<updated>2006-03-09T02:11:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-09T02:11:00+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
  powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs
  [PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message
  [PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm
  powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs
  powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions
  powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
  powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs
  [PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message
  [PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm
  powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs
  powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions
  powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs</title>
<updated>2006-03-08T02:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-08T02:24:22+00:00</published>
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A careful reading of the recent changes to the system call entry/exit
paths revealed several problems, plus some things that could be
simplified and improved:

* 32-bit wasn't testing the _TIF_NOERROR bit in the syscall fast exit
  path, so it was only doing anything with it once it saw some other
  bit being set.  In other words, the noerror behaviour would apply to
  the next system call where we had to reschedule or deliver a signal,
  which is not necessarily the current system call.

* 32-bit wasn't doing the call to ptrace_notify in the syscall exit
  path when the _TIF_SINGLESTEP bit was set.

* _TIF_RESTOREALL was in both _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK and
  _TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK, which is odd since _TIF_RESTOREALL is only set
  by system calls.  I took it out of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK.

* On 64-bit, _TIF_RESTOREALL wasn't causing the non-volatile registers
  to be restored (unless perhaps a signal was delivered or the syscall
  was traced or single-stepped).  Thus the non-volatile registers
  weren't restored on exit from a signal handler.  We probably got
  away with it mostly because signal handlers written in C wouldn't
  alter the non-volatile registers.

* On 32-bit I simplified the code and made it more like 64-bit by
  making the syscall exit path jump to ret_from_except to handle
  preemption and signal delivery.

* 32-bit was calling do_signal unnecessarily when _TIF_RESTOREALL was
  set - but I think because of that 32-bit was actually restoring the
  non-volatile registers on exit from a signal handler.

* I changed the order of enabling interrupts and saving the
  non-volatile registers before calling do_syscall_trace_leave; now we
  enable interrupts first.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<pre>
A careful reading of the recent changes to the system call entry/exit
paths revealed several problems, plus some things that could be
simplified and improved:

* 32-bit wasn't testing the _TIF_NOERROR bit in the syscall fast exit
  path, so it was only doing anything with it once it saw some other
  bit being set.  In other words, the noerror behaviour would apply to
  the next system call where we had to reschedule or deliver a signal,
  which is not necessarily the current system call.

* 32-bit wasn't doing the call to ptrace_notify in the syscall exit
  path when the _TIF_SINGLESTEP bit was set.

* _TIF_RESTOREALL was in both _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK and
  _TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK, which is odd since _TIF_RESTOREALL is only set
  by system calls.  I took it out of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK.

* On 64-bit, _TIF_RESTOREALL wasn't causing the non-volatile registers
  to be restored (unless perhaps a signal was delivered or the syscall
  was traced or single-stepped).  Thus the non-volatile registers
  weren't restored on exit from a signal handler.  We probably got
  away with it mostly because signal handlers written in C wouldn't
  alter the non-volatile registers.

* On 32-bit I simplified the code and made it more like 64-bit by
  making the syscall exit path jump to ret_from_except to handle
  preemption and signal delivery.

* 32-bit was calling do_signal unnecessarily when _TIF_RESTOREALL was
  set - but I think because of that 32-bit was actually restoring the
  non-volatile registers on exit from a signal handler.

* I changed the order of enabling interrupts and saving the
  non-volatile registers before calling do_syscall_trace_leave; now we
  enable interrupts first.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppc64: make sure to align stack pointer to 16 bytes at boot</title>
<updated>2006-03-04T23:00:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@quad.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-04T23:00:45+00:00</published>
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yaboot is scrogged and calls us with an invalid stack alignment,
it seems.

Thanks to David Woodhouse to pointing me to the problem.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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yaboot is scrogged and calls us with an invalid stack alignment,
it seems.

Thanks to David Woodhouse to pointing me to the problem.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init</title>
<updated>2006-03-03T11:01:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-02T23:35:40+00:00</published>
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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:55 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:

&gt; My iBook1 has 2 memory regions in reg. Depending on how I boot it
&gt; (vmlinux+initrd) or zImage.initrd, it will not boot with current Linus
&gt; tree.
&gt; rmo_top should be 160MB instead of 32MB.

On logically-partitioned machines the first element of the reg
property in the memory node is defined to be the "RMO" region,
i.e. the memory that the processor can access in real mode.  On other
machines the first element has no special meaning, so only take it to
be the RMO region on LPAR machines.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:55 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:

&gt; My iBook1 has 2 memory regions in reg. Depending on how I boot it
&gt; (vmlinux+initrd) or zImage.initrd, it will not boot with current Linus
&gt; tree.
&gt; rmo_top should be 160MB instead of 32MB.

On logically-partitioned machines the first element of the reg
property in the memory node is defined to be the "RMO" region,
i.e. the memory that the processor can access in real mode.  On other
machines the first element has no special meaning, so only take it to
be the RMO region on LPAR machines.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features</title>
<updated>2006-03-03T11:00:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-01T04:07:07+00:00</published>
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This patch makes userland aware of the icache snoop capability of the
POWER5 (and possibly others in the future) and of SMT capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This patch makes userland aware of the icache snoop capability of the
POWER5 (and possibly others in the future) and of SMT capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler</title>
<updated>2006-03-03T06:11:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-03T06:11:40+00:00</published>
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On 32-bit, the exception prolog for the program check exception doesn't
enable interrupts early on.  If it is an illegal instruction exception,
we read the instruction in order to emulate certain instructions, and
the get_user of the instruction triggers a WARN_ON since interrupts
are still disabled.  This adds a local_irq_enable() to enable
interrupts before reading the instruction.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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On 32-bit, the exception prolog for the program check exception doesn't
enable interrupts early on.  If it is an illegal instruction exception,
we read the instruction in order to emulate certain instructions, and
the get_user of the instruction triggers a WARN_ON since interrupts
are still disabled.  This adds a local_irq_enable() to enable
interrupts before reading the instruction.

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