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<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>
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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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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Remove RWSEM export leftovers</title>
<updated>2013-09-05T19:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>tkhai@yandex.ru</email>
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<published>2013-08-12T12:02:24+00:00</published>
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The functions

			__down_read
			__down_read_trylock
			__down_write
			__down_write_trylock
			__up_read
			__up_write
			__downgrade_write

are implemented inline, so remove corresponding EXPORT_SYMBOLs
(They lead to compile errors on RT kernel).

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@yandex.ru&gt;
CC: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The functions

			__down_read
			__down_read_trylock
			__down_write
			__down_write_trylock
			__up_read
			__up_write
			__downgrade_write

are implemented inline, so remove corresponding EXPORT_SYMBOLs
(They lead to compile errors on RT kernel).

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@yandex.ru&gt;
CC: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
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<published>2013-04-30T22:28:42+00:00</published>
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The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
s390 Kconfig.debug files.  Arnd Bergman noted that the help text was
slightly misleading and should be fixed to state that enabling this
option isn't a problem when using pre 4.4 gcc.

To simplify the rewording, consolidate the text into lib/Kconfig.debug
and modify it there to be more explicit about when you should say N to
this config.

Also, make the text a bit more generic by stating that this option
enables compile time checks so we can cover architectures which emit
warnings vs.  ones which emit errors.  The details of how an
architecture decided to implement the checks isn't as important as the
concept of compile time checking of copy_from_user() calls.

While we're doing this, remove all the copy_from_user_overflow() code
that's duplicated many times and place it into lib/ so that any
architecture supporting this option can get the function for free.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.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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The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
s390 Kconfig.debug files.  Arnd Bergman noted that the help text was
slightly misleading and should be fixed to state that enabling this
option isn't a problem when using pre 4.4 gcc.

To simplify the rewording, consolidate the text into lib/Kconfig.debug
and modify it there to be more explicit about when you should say N to
this config.

Also, make the text a bit more generic by stating that this option
enables compile time checks so we can cover architectures which emit
warnings vs.  ones which emit errors.  The details of how an
architecture decided to implement the checks isn't as important as the
concept of compile time checking of copy_from_user() calls.

While we're doing this, remove all the copy_from_user_overflow() code
that's duplicated many times and place it into lib/ so that any
architecture supporting this option can get the function for free.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.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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<entry>
<title>sparc/srmmu: clear trailing edge of bitmap properly</title>
<updated>2013-03-31T23:29:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-29T03:44:43+00:00</published>
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srmmu_nocache_bitmap is cleared by bit_map_init().  But bit_map_init()
attempts to clear by memset(), so it can't clear the trailing edge of
bitmap properly on big-endian architecture if the number of bits is not
a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG.

Actually, the number of bits in srmmu_nocache_bitmap is not always
a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG.  It is calculated as below:

        bitmap_bits = srmmu_nocache_size &gt;&gt; SRMMU_NOCACHE_BITMAP_SHIFT;

srmmu_nocache_size is decided proportionally by the amount of system RAM
and it is rounded to a multiple of PAGE_SIZE.  SRMMU_NOCACHE_BITMAP_SHIFT
is defined as (PAGE_SHIFT - 4).  So it can only be said that bitmap_bits
is a multiple of 16.

This fixes the problem by using bitmap_clear() instead of memset()
in bit_map_init() and this also uses BITS_TO_LONGS() to calculate correct
size at bitmap allocation time.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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srmmu_nocache_bitmap is cleared by bit_map_init().  But bit_map_init()
attempts to clear by memset(), so it can't clear the trailing edge of
bitmap properly on big-endian architecture if the number of bits is not
a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG.

Actually, the number of bits in srmmu_nocache_bitmap is not always
a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG.  It is calculated as below:

        bitmap_bits = srmmu_nocache_size &gt;&gt; SRMMU_NOCACHE_BITMAP_SHIFT;

srmmu_nocache_size is decided proportionally by the amount of system RAM
and it is rounded to a multiple of PAGE_SIZE.  SRMMU_NOCACHE_BITMAP_SHIFT
is defined as (PAGE_SHIFT - 4).  So it can only be said that bitmap_bits
is a multiple of 16.

This fixes the problem by using bitmap_clear() instead of memset()
in bit_map_init() and this also uses BITS_TO_LONGS() to calculate correct
size at bitmap allocation time.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc: Support atomic64_dec_if_positive properly.</title>
<updated>2012-11-10T03:37:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-10T03:37:59+00:00</published>
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Sparc32 already supported it, as a consequence of using the
generic atomic64 implementation.  And the sparc64 implementation
is rather trivial.

This allows us to set ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE for all
of sparc, and avoid the annoying warning from lib/atomic64_test.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Sparc32 already supported it, as a consequence of using the
generic atomic64 implementation.  And the sparc64 implementation
is rather trivial.

This allows us to set ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE for all
of sparc, and avoid the annoying warning from lib/atomic64_test.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Niagara-4 bzero/memset, plus use MRU stores in page copy.</title>
<updated>2012-10-05T20:45:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-05T20:45:26+00:00</published>
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This adds optimized memset/bzero/page-clear routines for Niagara-4.

We basically can do what powerpc has been able to do for a decade (via
the "dcbz" instruction), which is use cache line clearing stores for
bzero and memsets with a 'c' argument of zero.

As long as we make the cache initializing store to each 32-byte
subblock of the L2 cache line, it works.

As with other Niagara-4 optimized routines, the key is to make sure to
avoid any usage of the %asi register, as reads and writes to it cost
at least 50 cycles.

For the user clear cases, we don't use these new routines, we use the
Niagara-1 variants instead.  Those have to use %asi in an unavoidable
way.

A Niagara-4 8K page clear costs just under 600 cycles.

Add definitions of the MRU variants of the cache initializing store
ASIs.  By default, cache initializing stores install the line as Least
Recently Used.  If we know we're going to use the data immediately
(which is true for page copies and clears) we can use the Most
Recently Used variant, to decrease the likelyhood of the lines being
evicted before they get used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This adds optimized memset/bzero/page-clear routines for Niagara-4.

We basically can do what powerpc has been able to do for a decade (via
the "dcbz" instruction), which is use cache line clearing stores for
bzero and memsets with a 'c' argument of zero.

As long as we make the cache initializing store to each 32-byte
subblock of the L2 cache line, it works.

As with other Niagara-4 optimized routines, the key is to make sure to
avoid any usage of the %asi register, as reads and writes to it cost
at least 50 cycles.

For the user clear cases, we don't use these new routines, we use the
Niagara-1 variants instead.  Those have to use %asi in an unavoidable
way.

A Niagara-4 8K page clear costs just under 600 cycles.

Add definitions of the MRU variants of the cache initializing store
ASIs.  By default, cache initializing stores install the line as Least
Recently Used.  If we know we're going to use the data immediately
(which is true for page copies and clears) we can use the Most
Recently Used variant, to decrease the likelyhood of the lines being
evicted before they get used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux</title>
<updated>2012-10-03T03:02:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-03T03:02:10+00:00</published>
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There's a Niagara 2 memcpy fix in this tree and I have
a Kconfig fix from Dave Jones which requires the sparc-next
changes which went upstream yesterday.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There's a Niagara 2 memcpy fix in this tree and I have
a Kconfig fix from Dave Jones which requires the sparc-next
changes which went upstream yesterday.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix trailing whitespace in NG4 memcpy.</title>
<updated>2012-09-28T20:08:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-28T20:08:22+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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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix comment type in NG4 copy from user.</title>
<updated>2012-09-27T21:26:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-27T21:26:31+00:00</published>
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Noticed by Greg Onufer.

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

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc64: Fix return value of Niagara-2 memcpy.</title>
<updated>2012-09-27T08:06:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-27T08:06:43+00:00</published>
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It gets clobbered by the kernel's VISEntryHalf, so we have to save it
in a different register than the set clobbered by that macro.

The instance in glibc is OK and doesn't have this problem.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It gets clobbered by the kernel's VISEntryHalf, so we have to save it
in a different register than the set clobbered by that macro.

The instance in glibc is OK and doesn't have this problem.

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