linux.git/arch/tile/include/hv/hypervisor.h, branch v3.7

arch/tile: allow querying cpu module information from the hypervisor

2012-05-25T16:48:28+00:00

This just adds a few more attributes to the information Linux
can query from the hypervisor for the /sys/hypervisor/board/ directory,
providing part, serial#, revision#, and description for cpu modules
(as opposed to the board itself, or any mezzanine boards).

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: support multiple huge page sizes dynamically

2012-05-25T16:48:27+00:00

This change adds support for a new "super" bit in the PTE, using the new
arch_make_huge_pte() method.  The Tilera hypervisor sees the bit set at a
given level of the page table and gangs together 4, 16, or 64 consecutive
pages from that level of the hierarchy to create a larger TLB entry.

One extra "super" page size can be specified at each of the three levels
of the page table hierarchy on tilegx, using the "hugepagesz" argument
on the boot command line.  A new hypervisor API is added to allow Linux
to tell the hypervisor how many PTEs to gang together at each level of
the page table.

To allow pre-allocating huge pages larger than the buddy allocator can
handle, this change modifies the Tilera bootmem support to put all of
memory on tilegx platforms into bootmem.

As part of this change I eliminate the vestigial CONFIG_HIGHPTE support,
which never worked anyway, and eliminate the hv_page_size() API in favor
of the standard vma_kernel_pagesize() API.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: Allow tilegx to build with either 16K or 64K page size

2012-05-25T16:48:24+00:00

This change introduces new flags for the hv_install_context()
API that passes a page table pointer to the hypervisor.  Clients
can explicitly request 4K, 16K, or 64K small pages when they
install a new context.  In practice, the page size is fixed at
kernel compile time and the same size is always requested every
time a new page table is installed.

The  header changes so that it provides more abstract
macros for managing "page" things like PFNs and page tables.  For
example there is now a HV_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE_SMALL instead of the old
HV_PAGE_SIZE_SMALL.  The various PFN routines have been eliminated and
only PA- or PTFN-based ones remain (since PTFNs are always expressed
in fixed 2KB "page" size).  The page-table management macros are
renamed with a leading underscore and take page-size arguments with
the presumption that clients will use those macros in some single
place to provide the "real" macros they will use themselves.

I happened to notice the old hv_set_caching() API was totally broken
(it assumed 4KB pages) so I changed it so it would nominally work
correctly with other page sizes.

Tag modules with the page size so you can't load a module built with
a conflicting page size.  (And add a test for SMP while we're at it.)

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: support building big-endian kernel

2012-05-25T16:48:22+00:00

The toolchain supports big-endian mode now, so add support for building
the kernel to run big-endian as well.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: allow building Linux with transparent huge pages enabled

2012-05-25T16:48:21+00:00

The change adds some infrastructure for managing tile pmd's more generally,
using pte_pmd() and pmd_pte() methods to translate pmd values to and
from ptes, since on TILEPro a pmd is really just a nested structure
holding a pgd (aka pte).  Several existing pmd methods are moved into
this framework, and a whole raft of additional pmd accessors are defined
that are used by the transparent hugepage framework.

The tile PTE now has a "client2" bit.  The bit is used to indicate a
transparent huge page is in the process of being split into subpages.

This change also fixes a generic bug where the return value of the
generic pmdp_splitting_flush() was incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size

2011-05-04T18:41:13+00:00

User space code has been able to discover the static page size
by including a special  file.  In the current release,
that file is now gone, and  doesn't rely on it.  The
getpagesize() API is now the only way for userspace to get the page size.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

drivers/edac: provide support for tile architecture

2011-03-10T18:30:14+00:00

Add tile support for the EDAC driver, which provides unified system
error (memory, PCI, etc.) reporting. For now, the TILEPro port
reports memory correctable error (CE) only.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better

2011-03-01T21:20:04+00:00

The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor
service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented
very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this
out natively and not use a hypervisor service.

By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the
cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits:
first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use
less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while
we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by
exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: parameterize system PLs to support KVM port

2010-10-15T19:38:09+00:00

While not a port to KVM (yet), this change modifies the kernel
to be able to build either at PL1 or at PL2 with a suitable
config switch.  Pushing up this change avoids handling branch
merge issues going forward with the KVM work.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf