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<entry>
<title>sparc64: add hot-patched and inlined get_tick()</title>
<updated>2017-06-12T22:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-12T20:41:47+00:00</published>
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Add the new get_tick() function that is hot-patched during boot based on
processor we are booting on.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare &lt;steven.sistare@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add the new get_tick() function that is hot-patched during boot based on
processor we are booting on.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare &lt;steven.sistare@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-08T00:02:55+00:00</published>
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When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: support static_key usage in non-module __exit sections</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T12:50:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@akamai.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T20:46:27+00:00</published>
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The jump table can reference text found in an __exit section.  Thus,
instead of discarding it at build/link time, include EXIT_TEXT as part
of __init and release it at system boot time.

Without this patch the link fails with:

    `.exit.text' referenced in section `__jump_table' of xxx.o:
    defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of xxx.o

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d822da427ab07a02a394602eca687104ff682f83.1467837322.git.jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The jump table can reference text found in an __exit section.  Thus,
instead of discarding it at build/link time, include EXIT_TEXT as part
of __init and release it at system boot time.

Without this patch the link fails with:

    `.exit.text' referenced in section `__jump_table' of xxx.o:
    defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of xxx.o

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d822da427ab07a02a394602eca687104ff682f83.1467837322.git.jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix bootup regressions on some Kconfig combinations.</title>
<updated>2016-04-27T21:27:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-27T21:27:37+00:00</published>
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The system call tracing bug fix mentioned in the Fixes tag
below increased the amount of assembler code in the sequence
of assembler files included by head_64.S

This caused to total set of code to exceed 0x4000 bytes in
size, which overflows the expression in head_64.S that works
to place swapper_tsb at address 0x408000.

When this is violated, the TSB is not properly aligned, and
also the trap table is not aligned properly either.  All of
this together results in failed boots.

So, do two things:

1) Simplify some code by using ba,a instead of ba/nop to get
   those bytes back.

2) Add a linker script assertion to make sure that if this
   happens again the build will fail.

Fixes: 1a40b95374f6 ("sparc: Fix system call tracing register handling.")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Reported-by: Joerg Abraham &lt;joerg.abraham@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The system call tracing bug fix mentioned in the Fixes tag
below increased the amount of assembler code in the sequence
of assembler files included by head_64.S

This caused to total set of code to exceed 0x4000 bytes in
size, which overflows the expression in head_64.S that works
to place swapper_tsb at address 0x408000.

When this is violated, the TSB is not properly aligned, and
also the trap table is not aligned properly either.  All of
this together results in failed boots.

So, do two things:

1) Simplify some code by using ba,a instead of ba/nop to get
   those bytes back.

2) Add a linker script assertion to make sure that if this
   happens again the build will fail.

Fixes: 1a40b95374f6 ("sparc: Fix system call tracing register handling.")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Reported-by: Joerg Abraham &lt;joerg.abraham@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-25T21:22:05+00:00</published>
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Resolve conflict between sparc v9 and M7 on usage of bit 9 of TTE</title>
<updated>2015-06-01T05:15:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Khalid Aziz</name>
<email>khalid.aziz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T16:00:46+00:00</published>
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sparc: Resolve conflict between sparc v9 and M7 on usage of bit 9 of TTE

Bit 9 of TTE is CV (Cacheable in V-cache) on sparc v9 processor while
the same bit 9 is MCDE (Memory Corruption Detection Enable) on M7
processor. This creates a conflicting usage of the same bit. Kernel
sets TTE.cv bit on all pages for sun4v architecture which works well
for sparc v9 but enables memory corruption detection on M7 processor
which is not the intent. This patch adds code to determine if kernel
is running on M7 processor and takes steps to not enable memory
corruption detection in TTE erroneously.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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sparc: Resolve conflict between sparc v9 and M7 on usage of bit 9 of TTE

Bit 9 of TTE is CV (Cacheable in V-cache) on sparc v9 processor while
the same bit 9 is MCDE (Memory Corruption Detection Enable) on M7
processor. This creates a conflicting usage of the same bit. Kernel
sets TTE.cv bit on all pages for sun4v architecture which works well
for sparc v9 but enables memory corruption detection on M7 processor
which is not the intent. This patch adds code to determine if kernel
is running on M7 processor and takes steps to not enable memory
corruption detection in TTE erroneously.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Kill unnecessary tables and increase MAX_BANKS.</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T23:53:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-28T04:30:57+00:00</published>
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swapper_low_pmd_dir and swapper_pud_dir are actually completely
useless and unnecessary.

We just need swapper_pg_dir[].  Naturally the other page table chunks
will be allocated on an as-needed basis.  Since the kernel actually
accesses these tables in the PAGE_OFFSET view, there is not even a TLB
locality advantage of placing them in the kernel image.

Use the hard coded vmlinux.ld.S slot for swapper_pg_dir which is
naturally page aligned.

Increase MAX_BANKS to 1024 in order to handle heavily fragmented
virtual guests.

Even with this MAX_BANKS increase, the kernel is 20K+ smaller.

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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swapper_low_pmd_dir and swapper_pud_dir are actually completely
useless and unnecessary.

We just need swapper_pg_dir[].  Naturally the other page table chunks
will be allocated on an as-needed basis.  Since the kernel actually
accesses these tables in the PAGE_OFFSET view, there is not even a TLB
locality advantage of placing them in the kernel image.

Use the hard coded vmlinux.ld.S slot for swapper_pg_dir which is
naturally page aligned.

Increase MAX_BANKS to 1024 in order to handle heavily fragmented
virtual guests.

Even with this MAX_BANKS increase, the kernel is 20K+ smaller.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Bob Picco &lt;bob.picco@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix physical memory management regressions with large max_phys_bits.</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T23:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T03:56:11+00:00</published>
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If max_phys_bits needs to be &gt; 43 (f.e. for T4 chips), things like
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC stop working because the 3-level page tables only
can cover up to 43 bits.

Another problem is that when we increased MAX_PHYS_ADDRESS_BITS up to
47, several statically allocated tables became enormous.

Compounding this is that we will need to support up to 49 bits of
physical addressing for M7 chips.

The two tables in question are sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap and
kpte_linear_bitmap.

The first holds a bitmap, with 1 bit for each 4MB chunk of physical
memory, indicating whether that chunk actually exists in the machine
and is valid.

The second table is a set of 2-bit values which tell how large of a
mapping (4MB, 256MB, 2GB, 16GB, respectively) we can use at each 256MB
chunk of ram in the system.

These tables are huge and take up an enormous amount of the BSS
section of the sparc64 kernel image.  Specifically, the
sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap is 4MB, and the kpte_linear_bitmap is 128K.

So let's solve the space wastage and the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC problem
at the same time, by using the kernel page tables (as designed) to
manage this information.

We have to keep using large mappings when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is disabled,
and we do this by encoding huge PMDs and PUDs.

On a T4-2 with 256GB of ram the kernel page table takes up 16K with
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC disabled and 256MB with it enabled.  Furthermore, this
memory is dynamically allocated at run time rather than coded
statically into the kernel image.

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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If max_phys_bits needs to be &gt; 43 (f.e. for T4 chips), things like
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC stop working because the 3-level page tables only
can cover up to 43 bits.

Another problem is that when we increased MAX_PHYS_ADDRESS_BITS up to
47, several statically allocated tables became enormous.

Compounding this is that we will need to support up to 49 bits of
physical addressing for M7 chips.

The two tables in question are sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap and
kpte_linear_bitmap.

The first holds a bitmap, with 1 bit for each 4MB chunk of physical
memory, indicating whether that chunk actually exists in the machine
and is valid.

The second table is a set of 2-bit values which tell how large of a
mapping (4MB, 256MB, 2GB, 16GB, respectively) we can use at each 256MB
chunk of ram in the system.

These tables are huge and take up an enormous amount of the BSS
section of the sparc64 kernel image.  Specifically, the
sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap is 4MB, and the kpte_linear_bitmap is 128K.

So let's solve the space wastage and the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC problem
at the same time, by using the kernel page tables (as designed) to
manage this information.

We have to keep using large mappings when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is disabled,
and we do this by encoding huge PMDs and PUDs.

On a T4-2 with 256GB of ram the kernel page table takes up 16K with
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC disabled and 256MB with it enabled.  Furthermore, this
memory is dynamically allocated at run time rather than coded
statically into the kernel image.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Bob Picco &lt;bob.picco@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Make PAGE_OFFSET variable.</title>
<updated>2013-11-12T23:22:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-21T04:50:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b2d438348024b75a1ee8b66b85d77f569a5dfed8'/>
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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>
</author>
<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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