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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/lib, branch v3.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Improve stream generation comments in copypage/user</title>
<updated>2013-05-31T22:29:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-29T19:34:29+00:00</published>
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No code changes, just documenting what's happening a little better.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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No code changes, just documenting what's happening a little better.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uprobes/powerpc: Add dependency on single step emulation</title>
<updated>2013-01-29T00:35:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K. Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki@in.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-07T00:26:57+00:00</published>
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Uprobes uses emulate_step in sstep.c, but we haven't explicitly specified
the dependency. On pseries HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT protects us, but 44x has no
such luxury.

Consolidate other users that depend on sstep and create a new config option.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Uprobes uses emulate_step in sstep.c, but we haven't explicitly specified
the dependency. On pseries HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT protects us, but 44x has no
such luxury.

Consolidate other users that depend on sstep and create a new config option.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Build kernel with -mcmodel=medium</title>
<updated>2013-01-10T06:00:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-26T17:41:08+00:00</published>
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Finally remove the two level TOC and build with -mcmodel=medium.

Unfortunately we can't build modules with -mcmodel=medium due to
the tricks the kernel module loader plays with percpu data:

# -mcmodel=medium breaks modules because it uses 32bit offsets from
# the TOC pointer to create pointers where possible. Pointers into the
# percpu data area are created by this method.
#
# The kernel module loader relocates the percpu data section from the
# original location (starting with 0xd...) to somewhere in the base
# kernel percpu data space (starting with 0xc...). We need a full
# 64bit relocation for this to work, hence -mcmodel=large.

On older kernels we fall back to the two level TOC (-mminimal-toc)

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Finally remove the two level TOC and build with -mcmodel=medium.

Unfortunately we can't build modules with -mcmodel=medium due to
the tricks the kernel module loader plays with percpu data:

# -mcmodel=medium breaks modules because it uses 32bit offsets from
# the TOC pointer to create pointers where possible. Pointers into the
# percpu data area are created by this method.
#
# The kernel module loader relocates the percpu data section from the
# original location (starting with 0xd...) to somewhere in the base
# kernel percpu data space (starting with 0xc...). We need a full
# 64bit relocation for this to work, hence -mcmodel=large.

On older kernels we fall back to the two level TOC (-mminimal-toc)

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case</title>
<updated>2012-10-04T08:02:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nishanth Aravamudan</name>
<email>nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-01T14:59:13+00:00</published>
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In 2fae7cdb60240e2e2d9b378afbf6d9fcce8a3890 ("powerpc: Fix VMX in
interrupt check in POWER7 copy loops"), Anton inadvertently
introduced a regression for memcpy on POWER7 machines. copyuser and
memcpy diverge slightly in their use of cr1 (copyuser doesn't use it,
but memcpy does) and you end up clobbering that register with your fix.
That results in (taken from an FC18 kernel):

[   18.824604] Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception f20 at c000000000052f40
[   18.824618] Oops: Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception, sig: 6 [#1]
[   18.824623] SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA pSeries
[   18.824633] Modules linked in: tg3(+) be2net(+) cxgb4(+) ipr(+) sunrpc xts lrw gf128mul dm_crypt dm_round_robin dm_multipath linear raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua squashfs cramfs
[   18.824705] NIP: c000000000052f40 LR: c00000000020b874 CTR: 0000000000000512
[   18.824709] REGS: c000001f1fef7790 TRAP: 0f20   Not tainted  (3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18.ppc64)
[   18.824713] MSR: 8000000000009032 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI&gt;  CR: 4802802e  XER: 20000010
[   18.824726] SOFTE: 0
[   18.824728] CFAR: 0000000000000f20
[   18.824731] TASK = c000000fa7128400[0] 'swapper/24' THREAD: c000000fa7480000 CPU: 24
GPR00: 00000000ffffffc0 c000001f1fef7a10 c00000000164edc0 c000000f9b9a8120
GPR04: c000000f9b9a8124 0000000000001438 0000000000000060 03ffffff064657ee
GPR08: 0000000080000000 0000000000000010 0000000000000020 0000000000000030
GPR12: 0000000028028022 c00000000ff25400 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff c0000000016b2180 c00000000156a500
GPR20: c000000f968c7a90 c0000000131c31d8 c000001f1fef4000 c000000001561d00
GPR24: 000000000000000a 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000012
GPR28: c000000fa5c04f80 00000000000008bc c0000000015c0a28 000000000000022e
[   18.824792] NIP [c000000000052f40] .memcpy_power7+0x5a0/0x7c4
[   18.824797] LR [c00000000020b874] .pcpu_free_area+0x174/0x2d0
[   18.824800] Call Trace:
[   18.824803] [c000001f1fef7a10] [c000000000052c14] .memcpy_power7+0x274/0x7c4 (unreliable)
[   18.824809] [c000001f1fef7b10] [c00000000020b874] .pcpu_free_area+0x174/0x2d0
[   18.824813] [c000001f1fef7bb0] [c00000000020ba88] .free_percpu+0xb8/0x1b0
[   18.824819] [c000001f1fef7c50] [c00000000043d144] .throtl_pd_exit+0x94/0xd0
[   18.824824] [c000001f1fef7cf0] [c00000000043acf8] .blkg_free+0x88/0xe0
[   18.824829] [c000001f1fef7d90] [c00000000018c048] .rcu_process_callbacks+0x2e8/0x8a0
[   18.824835] [c000001f1fef7e90] [c0000000000a8ce8] .__do_softirq+0x158/0x4d0
[   18.824840] [c000001f1fef7f90] [c000000000025ecc] .call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24
[   18.824845] [c000000fa7483650] [c000000000010e80] .do_softirq+0x160/0x1a0
[   18.824850] [c000000fa74836f0] [c0000000000a94a4] .irq_exit+0xf4/0x120
[   18.824854] [c000000fa7483780] [c000000000020c44] .timer_interrupt+0x154/0x4d0
[   18.824859] [c000000fa7483830] [c000000000003be0] decrementer_common+0x160/0x180
[   18.824866] --- Exception: 901 at .plpar_hcall_norets+0x84/0xd4
[   18.824866]     LR = .check_and_cede_processor+0x48/0x80
[   18.824871] [c000000fa7483b20] [c00000000007f018] .check_and_cede_processor+0x18/0x80 (unreliable)
[   18.824877] [c000000fa7483b90] [c00000000007f104] .dedicated_cede_loop+0x84/0x150
[   18.824883] [c000000fa7483c50] [c0000000006bc030] .cpuidle_enter+0x30/0x50
[   18.824887] [c000000fa7483cc0] [c0000000006bc9f4] .cpuidle_idle_call+0x104/0x720
[   18.824892] [c000000fa7483d80] [c000000000070af8] .pSeries_idle+0x18/0x40
[   18.824897] [c000000fa7483df0] [c000000000019084] .cpu_idle+0x1a4/0x380
[   18.824902] [c000000fa7483ec0] [c0000000008a4c18] .start_secondary+0x520/0x528
[   18.824907] [c000000fa7483f90] [c0000000000093f0] .start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
[   18.824911] Instruction dump:
[   18.824914] 38840008 90030000 90e30004 38630008 7ca62850 7cc300d0 78c7e102 7cf01120
[   18.824923] 78c60660 39200010 39400020 39600030 &lt;7e00200c&gt; 7c0020ce 38840010 409f001c
[   18.824935] ---[ end trace 0bb95124affaaa45 ]---
[   18.825046] Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception f20 at c000000000052d08

I believe the right fix is to make memcpy match usercopy and not use
cr1.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [v3.6]
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In 2fae7cdb60240e2e2d9b378afbf6d9fcce8a3890 ("powerpc: Fix VMX in
interrupt check in POWER7 copy loops"), Anton inadvertently
introduced a regression for memcpy on POWER7 machines. copyuser and
memcpy diverge slightly in their use of cr1 (copyuser doesn't use it,
but memcpy does) and you end up clobbering that register with your fix.
That results in (taken from an FC18 kernel):

[   18.824604] Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception f20 at c000000000052f40
[   18.824618] Oops: Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception, sig: 6 [#1]
[   18.824623] SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA pSeries
[   18.824633] Modules linked in: tg3(+) be2net(+) cxgb4(+) ipr(+) sunrpc xts lrw gf128mul dm_crypt dm_round_robin dm_multipath linear raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua squashfs cramfs
[   18.824705] NIP: c000000000052f40 LR: c00000000020b874 CTR: 0000000000000512
[   18.824709] REGS: c000001f1fef7790 TRAP: 0f20   Not tainted  (3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18.ppc64)
[   18.824713] MSR: 8000000000009032 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI&gt;  CR: 4802802e  XER: 20000010
[   18.824726] SOFTE: 0
[   18.824728] CFAR: 0000000000000f20
[   18.824731] TASK = c000000fa7128400[0] 'swapper/24' THREAD: c000000fa7480000 CPU: 24
GPR00: 00000000ffffffc0 c000001f1fef7a10 c00000000164edc0 c000000f9b9a8120
GPR04: c000000f9b9a8124 0000000000001438 0000000000000060 03ffffff064657ee
GPR08: 0000000080000000 0000000000000010 0000000000000020 0000000000000030
GPR12: 0000000028028022 c00000000ff25400 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff c0000000016b2180 c00000000156a500
GPR20: c000000f968c7a90 c0000000131c31d8 c000001f1fef4000 c000000001561d00
GPR24: 000000000000000a 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000012
GPR28: c000000fa5c04f80 00000000000008bc c0000000015c0a28 000000000000022e
[   18.824792] NIP [c000000000052f40] .memcpy_power7+0x5a0/0x7c4
[   18.824797] LR [c00000000020b874] .pcpu_free_area+0x174/0x2d0
[   18.824800] Call Trace:
[   18.824803] [c000001f1fef7a10] [c000000000052c14] .memcpy_power7+0x274/0x7c4 (unreliable)
[   18.824809] [c000001f1fef7b10] [c00000000020b874] .pcpu_free_area+0x174/0x2d0
[   18.824813] [c000001f1fef7bb0] [c00000000020ba88] .free_percpu+0xb8/0x1b0
[   18.824819] [c000001f1fef7c50] [c00000000043d144] .throtl_pd_exit+0x94/0xd0
[   18.824824] [c000001f1fef7cf0] [c00000000043acf8] .blkg_free+0x88/0xe0
[   18.824829] [c000001f1fef7d90] [c00000000018c048] .rcu_process_callbacks+0x2e8/0x8a0
[   18.824835] [c000001f1fef7e90] [c0000000000a8ce8] .__do_softirq+0x158/0x4d0
[   18.824840] [c000001f1fef7f90] [c000000000025ecc] .call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24
[   18.824845] [c000000fa7483650] [c000000000010e80] .do_softirq+0x160/0x1a0
[   18.824850] [c000000fa74836f0] [c0000000000a94a4] .irq_exit+0xf4/0x120
[   18.824854] [c000000fa7483780] [c000000000020c44] .timer_interrupt+0x154/0x4d0
[   18.824859] [c000000fa7483830] [c000000000003be0] decrementer_common+0x160/0x180
[   18.824866] --- Exception: 901 at .plpar_hcall_norets+0x84/0xd4
[   18.824866]     LR = .check_and_cede_processor+0x48/0x80
[   18.824871] [c000000fa7483b20] [c00000000007f018] .check_and_cede_processor+0x18/0x80 (unreliable)
[   18.824877] [c000000fa7483b90] [c00000000007f104] .dedicated_cede_loop+0x84/0x150
[   18.824883] [c000000fa7483c50] [c0000000006bc030] .cpuidle_enter+0x30/0x50
[   18.824887] [c000000fa7483cc0] [c0000000006bc9f4] .cpuidle_idle_call+0x104/0x720
[   18.824892] [c000000fa7483d80] [c000000000070af8] .pSeries_idle+0x18/0x40
[   18.824897] [c000000fa7483df0] [c000000000019084] .cpu_idle+0x1a4/0x380
[   18.824902] [c000000fa7483ec0] [c0000000008a4c18] .start_secondary+0x520/0x528
[   18.824907] [c000000fa7483f90] [c0000000000093f0] .start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
[   18.824911] Instruction dump:
[   18.824914] 38840008 90030000 90e30004 38630008 7ca62850 7cc300d0 78c7e102 7cf01120
[   18.824923] 78c60660 39200010 39400020 39600030 &lt;7e00200c&gt; 7c0020ce 38840010 409f001c
[   18.824935] ---[ end trace 0bb95124affaaa45 ]---
[   18.825046] Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception f20 at c000000000052d08

I believe the right fix is to make memcpy match usercopy and not use
cr1.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [v3.6]
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kprobe: Don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T05:32:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiejun Chen</name>
<email>tiejun.chen@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-16T23:54:31+00:00</published>
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We don't do the real store operation for kprobing 'stwu Rx,(y)R1'
since this may corrupt the exception frame, now we will do this
operation safely in exception return code after migrate current
exception frame below the kprobed function stack.

So we only update gpr[1] here and trigger a thread flag to mask
this.

Note we should make sure if we trigger kernel stack over flow.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We don't do the real store operation for kprobing 'stwu Rx,(y)R1'
since this may corrupt the exception frame, now we will do this
operation safely in exception return code after migrate current
exception frame below the kprobed function stack.

So we only update gpr[1] here and trigger a thread flag to mask
this.

Note we should make sure if we trigger kernel stack over flow.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen &lt;tiejun.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't use __put_user() in patch_instruction</title>
<updated>2012-09-05T06:05:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-04T15:08:28+00:00</published>
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patch_instruction() can be called very early on ppc32, when the kernel
isn't yet running at it's linked address. That can cause the !
is_kernel_addr() test in __put_user() to trip and call might_sleep()
which is very bad at that point during boot.

Use a lower level function instead for now, at least until we get to
rework ppc32 boot process to do the code patching later, like ppc64
does.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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patch_instruction() can be called very early on ppc32, when the kernel
isn't yet running at it's linked address. That can cause the !
is_kernel_addr() test in __put_user() to trip and call might_sleep()
which is very bad at that point during boot.

Use a lower level function instead for now, at least until we get to
rework ppc32 boot process to do the code patching later, like ppc64
does.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix VMX in interrupt check in POWER7 copy loops</title>
<updated>2012-08-24T10:26:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-07T17:51:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae7cdb60240e2e2d9b378afbf6d9fcce8a3890'/>
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The enhanced prefetch hint patches corrupt the condition register
that was used to check if we are in interrupt. Fix this by using cr1.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
The enhanced prefetch hint patches corrupt the condition register
that was used to check if we are in interrupt. Fix this by using cr1.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_user patch applied twice</title>
<updated>2012-08-24T10:26:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-07T17:50:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dad477ccd65f05bf3b5a874e0118bf4156a1fcbb'/>
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"powerpc: Use enhanced touch instructions in POWER7
copy_to_user/copy_from_user" was applied twice. Remove one.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
"powerpc: Use enhanced touch instructions in POWER7
copy_to_user/copy_from_user" was applied twice. Remove one.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Put the gpr save/restore functions in their own section</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T04:19:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-05T21:09:40+00:00</published>
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This allows the linker to know that calls to them do not need to switch
TOC and stop errors like the following when linking large configurations:

powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: In function `.gpiochip_is_requested':
(.text+0x4): sibling call optimization to `_savegpr0_29' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `_savegpr0_29' extern

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This allows the linker to know that calls to them do not need to switch
TOC and stop errors like the following when linking large configurations:

powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: In function `.gpiochip_is_requested':
(.text+0x4): sibling call optimization to `_savegpr0_29' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `_savegpr0_29' extern

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fixes for instructions not using correct register naming</title>
<updated>2012-07-10T09:18:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T13:33:18+00:00</published>
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These macros are using integers where they could be using logical
names since they take registers.

We are going to enforce this soon, so fix these up now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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These macros are using integers where they could be using logical
names since they take registers.

We are going to enforce this soon, so fix these up now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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