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<title>powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PPC_CPU'</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T07:04:25+00:00</updated>
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<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
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<published>2014-05-20T19:59:42+00:00</published>
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Commit cd64d1697cf0 ("powerpc: mtmsrd not defined") added a check for
CONFIG_PPC_CPU were a check for CONFIG_PPC_FPU was clearly intended.

Fixes: cd64d1697cf0 ("powerpc: mtmsrd not defined")
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit cd64d1697cf0 ("powerpc: mtmsrd not defined") added a check for
CONFIG_PPC_CPU were a check for CONFIG_PPC_FPU was clearly intended.

Fixes: cd64d1697cf0 ("powerpc: mtmsrd not defined")
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T03:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2014-06-04T22:04:39+00:00</published>
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__clear_user and copy_page load from the TOC and are also exported
to modules. This means we have to use _GLOBAL_TOC() so that we
create the global entry point that sets up the 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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__clear_user and copy_page load from the TOC and are also exported
to modules. This means we have to use _GLOBAL_TOC() so that we
create the global entry point that sets up the 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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<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'anton/abiv2' into next</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T10:57:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
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<published>2014-05-05T10:33:10+00:00</published>
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This series adds support for building the powerpc 64-bit
LE kernel using the new ABI v2. We already supported
running ABI v2 userspace programs but this adds support
for building the kernel itself using the new ABI.
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This series adds support for building the powerpc 64-bit
LE kernel using the new ABI v2. We already supported
running ABI v2 userspace programs but this adds support
for building the kernel itself using the new ABI.
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<title>powerpc: memcpy optimization for 64bit LE</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T05:26:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Philippe Bergheaud</name>
<email>felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2014-04-29T23:12:01+00:00</published>
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Unaligned stores take alignment exceptions on POWER7 running in little-endian.
This is a dumb little-endian base memcpy that prevents unaligned stores.
Once booted the feature fixup code switches over to the VMX copy loops
(which are already endian safe).

The question is what we do before that switch over. The base 64bit
memcpy takes alignment exceptions on POWER7 so we can't use it as is.
Fixing the causes of alignment exception would slow it down, because
we'd need to ensure all loads and stores are aligned either through
rotate tricks or bytewise loads and stores. Either would be bad for
all other 64bit platforms.

[ I simplified the loop a bit - Anton ]

Signed-off-by: Philippe Bergheaud &lt;felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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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Unaligned stores take alignment exceptions on POWER7 running in little-endian.
This is a dumb little-endian base memcpy that prevents unaligned stores.
Once booted the feature fixup code switches over to the VMX copy loops
(which are already endian safe).

The question is what we do before that switch over. The base 64bit
memcpy takes alignment exceptions on POWER7 so we can't use it as is.
Fixing the causes of alignment exception would slow it down, because
we'd need to ensure all loads and stores are aligned either through
rotate tricks or bytewise loads and stores. Either would be bad for
all other 64bit platforms.

[ I simplified the loop a bit - Anton ]

Signed-off-by: Philippe Bergheaud &lt;felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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: Add _GLOBAL_TOC for ABIv2 assembly functions exported to modules</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T05:01:11+00:00</published>
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If an assembly function that calls back into c code is exported to
modules, we need to ensure r2 is setup correctly. There are only
two places crazy enough to do it (two of which are my fault).

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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If an assembly function that calls back into c code is exported to
modules, we need to ensure r2 is setup correctly. There are only
two places crazy enough to do it (two of which are my fault).

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Fix unsafe accesses to parameter area in ELFv2</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulrich Weigand</name>
<email>ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-14T18:21:03+00:00</published>
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Some of the assembler files in lib/ make use of the fact that in the
ELFv1 ABI, the caller guarantees to provide stack space to save the
parameter registers r3 ... r10.  This guarantee is no longer present
in ELFv2 for functions that have no variable argument list and no
more than 8 arguments.

Change the affected routines to temporarily store registers in the
red zone and/or the top of their own stack frame (in the space
provided to save r31 .. r29, which is actually not used in these
routines).

In opal_query_takeover, simply always allocate a stack frame;
the routine is not performance critical.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand &lt;ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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Some of the assembler files in lib/ make use of the fact that in the
ELFv1 ABI, the caller guarantees to provide stack space to save the
parameter registers r3 ... r10.  This guarantee is no longer present
in ELFv2 for functions that have no variable argument list and no
more than 8 arguments.

Change the affected routines to temporarily store registers in the
red zone and/or the top of their own stack frame (in the space
provided to save r31 .. r29, which is actually not used in these
routines).

In opal_query_takeover, simply always allocate a stack frame;
the routine is not performance critical.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand &lt;ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Fix ABIv2 issues with stack offsets in assembly code</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-04T05:09:02+00:00</published>
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Fix STK_PARAM and use it instead of hardcoding ABIv1 offsets.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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Fix STK_PARAM and use it instead of hardcoding ABIv1 offsets.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: No need to use dot symbols when branching to a function</title>
<updated>2014-04-23T00:05:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-04T05:04:35+00:00</published>
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binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function
descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address.

Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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binutils is smart enough to know that a branch to a function
descriptor is actually a branch to the functions text address.

Alan tells me that binutils has been doing this for 9 years.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
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<title>selftests/powerpc: Import Anton's memcpy / copy_tofrom_user tests</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T04:53:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-21T04:22:17+00:00</published>
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Turn Anton's memcpy / copy_tofrom_user test into something that can
live in tools/testing/selftests.

It requires one turd in arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S, but it's pretty
harmless IMHO.

We are sailing very close to the wind with the feature macros. We define
them to nothing, which currently means we get a few extra nops and
include the unaligned calls.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Turn Anton's memcpy / copy_tofrom_user test into something that can
live in tools/testing/selftests.

It requires one turd in arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S, but it's pretty
harmless IMHO.

We are sailing very close to the wind with the feature macros. We define
them to nothing, which currently means we get a few extra nops and
include the unaligned calls.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add vr save/restore functions</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:46:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-30T14:31:17+00:00</published>
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GCC 4.8 now generates out-of-line vr save/restore functions when
optimizing for size.  They are needed for the raid6 altivec support.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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GCC 4.8 now generates out-of-line vr save/restore functions when
optimizing for size.  They are needed for the raid6 altivec support.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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