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<title>UAPI: (Scripted) Convert #include "..." to #include &lt;path/...&gt; in kernel system headers</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:01:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-10-02T17:01:25+00:00</published>
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Convert #include "..." to #include &lt;path/...&gt; in kernel system headers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Convert #include "..." to #include &lt;path/...&gt; in kernel system headers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>arch/tile: provide kernel support for the tilegx USB shim</title>
<updated>2012-07-18T20:40:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-09T16:25:02+00:00</published>
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This change adds support for accessing the USB shim from within the
kernel.  Note that this change by itself does not allow the kernel
to act as a host or as a device; it merely exposes the built-in on-chip
hardware to the kernel.

The &lt;arch/usb_host.h&gt; and &lt;arch/usb_host_def.h&gt; headers are empty at
the moment because the kernel does not require any types or definitions
specific to the tilegx USB shim; the generic USB core code is all we need.
The headers are left in as stubs so that we don't need to modify the
hypervisor header (drv_usb_host_intf.h) from upstream.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This change adds support for accessing the USB shim from within the
kernel.  Note that this change by itself does not allow the kernel
to act as a host or as a device; it merely exposes the built-in on-chip
hardware to the kernel.

The &lt;arch/usb_host.h&gt; and &lt;arch/usb_host_def.h&gt; headers are empty at
the moment because the kernel does not require any types or definitions
specific to the tilegx USB shim; the generic USB core code is all we need.
The headers are left in as stubs so that we don't need to modify the
hypervisor header (drv_usb_host_intf.h) from upstream.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: provide kernel support for the tilegx TRIO shim</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T20:04:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-07T20:53:03+00:00</published>
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Provide kernel support for the tilegx "Transaction I/O" (TRIO) on-chip
hardware.  This hardware implements the PCIe interface for tilegx;
the driver changes to use TRIO for PCIe are in a subsequent commit.

The change is layered on top of the tilegx GXIO IORPC subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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Provide kernel support for the tilegx "Transaction I/O" (TRIO) on-chip
hardware.  This hardware implements the PCIe interface for tilegx;
the driver changes to use TRIO for PCIe are in a subsequent commit.

The change is layered on top of the tilegx GXIO IORPC subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: provide kernel support for the tilegx mPIPE shim</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T20:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-06T20:38:03+00:00</published>
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The TILE-Gx chip includes a packet-processing network engine called
mPIPE ("Multicore Programmable Intelligent Packet Engine").  This
change adds support for using the mPIPE engine from within the
kernel.  The engine has more functionality than is exposed here,
but to keep the kernel code and binary simpler, this is a subset
of the full API designed to enable standard Linux networking only.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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The TILE-Gx chip includes a packet-processing network engine called
mPIPE ("Multicore Programmable Intelligent Packet Engine").  This
change adds support for using the mPIPE engine from within the
kernel.  The engine has more functionality than is exposed here,
but to keep the kernel code and binary simpler, this is a subset
of the full API designed to enable standard Linux networking only.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: introduce GXIO IORPC framework for tilegx</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T20:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-04T20:39:58+00:00</published>
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The GXIO I/O RPC subsystem handles exporting I/O hardware resources to
Linux and to applications running under Linux.

For instance, memory which is made available for I/O DMA must be mapped
by an I/O TLB; that means that such memory must be locked down by Linux,
so that it is not swapped or otherwise reused, as long as those I/O
TLB entries are active. Similarly, configuring direct hardware access
introduces new validation requirements. If a user application registers
memory, Linux must ensure that the supplied virtual addresses are valid,
and turn them into client physical addresses. Similarly, when Linux then
supplies those client physical addresses to the Tilera hypervisor, it
must in turn validate those before turning them into the real physical
addresses which are required by the hardware.

To the extent that these sorts of activities were required on previous
TILE architecture processors, they were implemented in a device-specific
fashion. This meant that every I/O device had its own Tilera hypervisor
driver, its own Linux driver, and in some cases its own user-level
library support. There was a large amount of more-or-less functionally
identical code in different places, particularly in the different Linux
drivers. For TILE-Gx, this support has been generalized into a common
framework, known as the I/O RPC framework or just IORPC.

The two "gxio" directories (one for headers, one for sources) start
with just a few files in each with this infrastructure commit, but
after adding support for the on-board I/O shims for networking, PCI,
USB, crypto, compression, I2CS, etc., there end up being about 20 files
in each directory.

More information on the IORPC framework is in the &lt;hv/iorpc.h&gt; header,
included in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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The GXIO I/O RPC subsystem handles exporting I/O hardware resources to
Linux and to applications running under Linux.

For instance, memory which is made available for I/O DMA must be mapped
by an I/O TLB; that means that such memory must be locked down by Linux,
so that it is not swapped or otherwise reused, as long as those I/O
TLB entries are active. Similarly, configuring direct hardware access
introduces new validation requirements. If a user application registers
memory, Linux must ensure that the supplied virtual addresses are valid,
and turn them into client physical addresses. Similarly, when Linux then
supplies those client physical addresses to the Tilera hypervisor, it
must in turn validate those before turning them into the real physical
addresses which are required by the hardware.

To the extent that these sorts of activities were required on previous
TILE architecture processors, they were implemented in a device-specific
fashion. This meant that every I/O device had its own Tilera hypervisor
driver, its own Linux driver, and in some cases its own user-level
library support. There was a large amount of more-or-less functionally
identical code in different places, particularly in the different Linux
drivers. For TILE-Gx, this support has been generalized into a common
framework, known as the I/O RPC framework or just IORPC.

The two "gxio" directories (one for headers, one for sources) start
with just a few files in each with this infrastructure commit, but
after adding support for the on-board I/O shims for networking, PCI,
USB, crypto, compression, I2CS, etc., there end up being about 20 files
in each directory.

More information on the IORPC framework is in the &lt;hv/iorpc.h&gt; header,
included in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: allow querying cpu module information from the hypervisor</title>
<updated>2012-05-25T16:48:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-30T20:21:17+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: support multiple huge page sizes dynamically</title>
<updated>2012-05-25T16:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-01T18:04:21+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: Allow tilegx to build with either 16K or 64K page size</title>
<updated>2012-05-25T16:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T17:58:43+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hv/hypervisor.h&gt; 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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hv/hypervisor.h&gt; 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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: support building big-endian kernel</title>
<updated>2012-05-25T16:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T17:30:31+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: allow building Linux with transparent huge pages enabled</title>
<updated>2012-05-25T16:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:59:18+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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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 &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
</pre>
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