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<title>sparc64: Make PAGE_OFFSET variable.</title>
<updated>2013-11-12T23:22:34+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2013-09-21T04:50:41+00:00</published>
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Choose PAGE_OFFSET dynamically based upon cpu type.

Original UltraSPARC-I (spitfire) chips only supported a 44-bit
virtual address space.

Newer chips (T4 and later) support 52-bit virtual addresses
and up to 47-bits of physical memory space.

Therefore we have to adjust PAGE_SIZE dynamically based upon
the capabilities of the chip.

Note that this change alone does not allow us to support &gt; 43-bit
physical memory, to do that we need to re-arrange our page table
support.  The current encodings of the pmd_t and pgd_t pointers
restricts us to "32 + 11" == 43 bits.

This change can waste quite a bit of memory for the various tables.
In particular, a future change should work to size and allocate
kern_linear_bitmap[] and sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap[] dynamically.
This isn't easy as we really cannot take a TLB miss when accessing
kern_linear_bitmap[].  We'd have to lock it into the TLB or similar.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Bob Picco &lt;bob.picco@oracle.com&gt;
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Choose PAGE_OFFSET dynamically based upon cpu type.

Original UltraSPARC-I (spitfire) chips only supported a 44-bit
virtual address space.

Newer chips (T4 and later) support 52-bit virtual addresses
and up to 47-bits of physical memory space.

Therefore we have to adjust PAGE_SIZE dynamically based upon
the capabilities of the chip.

Note that this change alone does not allow us to support &gt; 43-bit
physical memory, to do that we need to re-arrange our page table
support.  The current encodings of the pmd_t and pgd_t pointers
restricts us to "32 + 11" == 43 bits.

This change can waste quite a bit of memory for the various tables.
In particular, a future change should work to size and allocate
kern_linear_bitmap[] and sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap[] dynamically.
This isn't easy as we really cannot take a TLB miss when accessing
kern_linear_bitmap[].  We'd have to lock it into the TLB or similar.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Bob Picco &lt;bob.picco@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>sparc64: Improvde documentation and readability of atomic backoff code.</title>
<updated>2012-10-28T20:04:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2012-10-28T20:04:47+00:00</published>
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Document what's going on in asm/backoff.h with a large and descriptive
comment.  Refer to it above the cpu_relax() definition in
asm/processor_64.h

Rename the pause patching section to have "3insn" in it's name like
the other patching sections do.

Based upon feedback from Sam Ravnborg.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Document what's going on in asm/backoff.h with a large and descriptive
comment.  Refer to it above the cpu_relax() definition in
asm/processor_64.h

Rename the pause patching section to have "3insn" in it's name like
the other patching sections do.

Based upon feedback from Sam Ravnborg.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc64: Use pause instruction when available.</title>
<updated>2012-10-28T06:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2012-10-28T06:00:41+00:00</published>
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In atomic backoff and cpu_relax(), use the pause instruction
found on SPARC-T4 and later.

It makes the cpu strand unselectable for the given number of
cycles, unless an intervening disrupting trap occurs.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In atomic backoff and cpu_relax(), use the pause instruction
found on SPARC-T4 and later.

It makes the cpu strand unselectable for the given number of
cycles, unless an intervening disrupting trap occurs.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc32: add support for run-time patching of leon/sun single instructions</title>
<updated>2012-05-28T06:52:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
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<published>2012-05-25T21:20:09+00:00</published>
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This will be used to handle that MMUREGS has different ASI for SUN and LEON.
This is the infrastructure only - users will come later.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Hellstrom &lt;daniel@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Eisele &lt;konrad@gaisler.com&gt;
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This will be used to handle that MMUREGS has different ASI for SUN and LEON.
This is the infrastructure only - users will come later.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Hellstrom &lt;daniel@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Eisele &lt;konrad@gaisler.com&gt;
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<title>sparc: Access kernel TSB using physical addressing when possible.</title>
<updated>2011-08-05T07:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-05T07:53:57+00:00</published>
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On sun4v this is basically required since we point the hypervisor and
the TSB walking hardware at these tables using physical addressing
too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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On sun4v this is basically required since we point the hypervisor and
the TSB walking hardware at these tables using physical addressing
too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Use popc when possible for ffs/__ffs/ffz.</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T04:28:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T03:23:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Use popc if possible for hweight routines.</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T04:28:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-29T16:42:07+00:00</published>
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Just like powerpc, we code patch at boot time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Just like powerpc, we code patch at boot time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE</title>
<updated>2011-03-24T17:50:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2011-03-24T17:50:09+00:00</published>
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Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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<title>percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline</title>
<updated>2011-01-25T13:26:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-25T13:26:50+00:00</published>
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Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
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Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
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<title>sparc64: Support kmemleak.</title>
<updated>2010-04-13T06:46:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-09T07:14:35+00:00</published>
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Only missing thing was an _sdata marker in vmlinux.lds.S

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Only missing thing was an _sdata marker in vmlinux.lds.S

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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