linux.git/fs/pstore, branch v3.11

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2013-07-04T17:29:23+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...

pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call

2013-07-02T08:39:37+00:00

Incorporate the addition of hsize argument in write_buf callback
of pstore. This was forgotten in

    6bbbca735936e15b9431882eceddcf6dff76e03c
    pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback

Causing a build failure when ftrace and pstore are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback

2013-07-01T08:10:48+00:00

Header size is needed to distinguish between header and the dump data.
Incorporate the addition of new argument (hsize) in the pstore write
callback.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

pstore: Return unique error if backend registration excluded by kernel param

2013-06-28T22:21:52+00:00

This is patch 1/3 of a patch set that avoids what misleadingly appears
to be a error during boot:

ERST: Could not register with persistent store

This message is displayed if the system has a valid ACPI ERST table and the
pstore.backend kernel parameter has been used to disable use of ERST by
pstore. But this same message is used for errors that preclude registration.

As part of fixing this, return a unique error status from pstore_register
if the pstore.backend kernel parameter selects a specific facility other
than the requesting facility and check for this condition before any others.
This allows the caller to distinquish this benign case from the other failure
cases.

Also, print an informational console message about which facility
successfully registered as the pstore backend. Since there are various
kernel parameters, config build options, and boot-time errors that can
influence which facility registers with pstore, it's useful to have a
positive indication.

Signed-off-by: Lenny Szubowicz 
Reported-by: Naotaka Hamaguchi 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase

2013-06-25T17:04:38+00:00

pstore_erase is used to erase the record from the persistent store.
So if a driver has not defined pstore_erase callback return
-EPERM instead of unlinking a file as deleting the file without
erasing its record in persistent store will give a wrong impression
to customers.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:05:02+00:00

This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition
details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Read of-config partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:04:59+00:00

This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of
of-config partition in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore.
For instance, of-config partition details will be stored in a
file named [of-nvram-5].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:04:52+00:00

This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of rtas partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, rtas details will be
stored in a file named [rtas-nvram-4].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

pstore/ram: remove the power of buffer size limitation

2013-06-14T22:54:41+00:00

There doesn't appear to be any reason for the overall pstore RAM buffer to
be a power of 2 size, so remove it. The individual console, ftrace and oops
buffers are still a power of 2 size.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore/ram: avoid atomic accesses for ioremapped regions

2013-06-14T22:54:21+00:00

For persistent RAM outside of main memory, the memory may have limitations
on supported accesses. For internal RAM on highbank platform exclusive
accesses are not supported and will hang the system. So atomic_cmpxchg
cannot be used. This commit uses spinlock protection for buffer size and
start updates on ioremapped regions instead.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck