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<title>[NET]: Allow skb headroom to be overridden</title>
<updated>2006-03-31T10:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-31T10:27:06+00:00</published>
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Previously we added NET_IP_ALIGN so an architecture can override the
padding done to align headers. The next step is to allow the skb
headroom to be overridden.

We currently always reserve 16 bytes to grow into, meaning all DMAs
start 16 bytes into a cacheline. On ppc64 we really want DMA writes to
start on a cacheline boundary, so we increase that headroom to one
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Previously we added NET_IP_ALIGN so an architecture can override the
padding done to align headers. The next step is to allow the skb
headroom to be overridden.

We currently always reserve 16 bytes to grow into, meaning all DMAs
start 16 bytes into a cacheline. On ppc64 we really want DMA writes to
start on a cacheline boundary, so we increase that headroom to one
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Add strne2a() to convert a string from EBCDIC to ASCII</title>
<updated>2006-03-22T04:04:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-21T09:46:08+00:00</published>
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Add strne2a() which converts a string from EBCDIC to ASCII.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Add strne2a() which converts a string from EBCDIC to ASCII.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Implement accurate task and CPU time accounting</title>
<updated>2006-02-24T03:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-23T23:06:59+00:00</published>
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This implements accurate task and cpu time accounting for 64-bit
powerpc kernels.  Instead of accounting a whole jiffy of time to a
task on a timer interrupt because that task happened to be running at
the time, we now account time in units of timebase ticks according to
the actual time spent by the task in user mode and kernel mode.  We
also count the time spent processing hardware and software interrupts
accurately.  This is conditional on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.  If
that is not set, we do tick-based approximate accounting as before.

To get this accurate information, we read either the PURR (processor
utilization of resources register) on POWER5 machines, or the timebase
on other machines on

* each entry to the kernel from usermode
* each exit to usermode
* transitions between process context, hard irq context and soft irq
  context in kernel mode
* context switches.

On POWER5 systems with shared-processor logical partitioning we also
read both the PURR and the timebase at each timer interrupt and
context switch in order to determine how much time has been taken by
the hypervisor to run other partitions ("steal" time).  Unfortunately,
since we need values of the PURR on both threads at the same time to
accurately calculate the steal time, and since we can only calculate
steal time on a per-core basis, the apportioning of the steal time
between idle time (time which we ceded to the hypervisor in the idle
loop) and actual stolen time is somewhat approximate at the moment.

This is all based quite heavily on what s390 does, and it uses the
generic interfaces that were added by the s390 developers,
i.e. account_system_time(), account_user_time(), etc.

This patch doesn't add any new interfaces between the kernel and
userspace, and doesn't change the units in which time is reported to
userspace by things such as /proc/stat, /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat, getrusage(),
times(), etc.  Internally the various task and cpu times are stored in
timebase units, but they are converted to USER_HZ units (1/100th of a
second) when reported to userspace.  Some precision is therefore lost
but there should not be any accumulating error, since the internal
accumulation is at full precision.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This implements accurate task and cpu time accounting for 64-bit
powerpc kernels.  Instead of accounting a whole jiffy of time to a
task on a timer interrupt because that task happened to be running at
the time, we now account time in units of timebase ticks according to
the actual time spent by the task in user mode and kernel mode.  We
also count the time spent processing hardware and software interrupts
accurately.  This is conditional on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.  If
that is not set, we do tick-based approximate accounting as before.

To get this accurate information, we read either the PURR (processor
utilization of resources register) on POWER5 machines, or the timebase
on other machines on

* each entry to the kernel from usermode
* each exit to usermode
* transitions between process context, hard irq context and soft irq
  context in kernel mode
* context switches.

On POWER5 systems with shared-processor logical partitioning we also
read both the PURR and the timebase at each timer interrupt and
context switch in order to determine how much time has been taken by
the hypervisor to run other partitions ("steal" time).  Unfortunately,
since we need values of the PURR on both threads at the same time to
accurately calculate the steal time, and since we can only calculate
steal time on a per-core basis, the apportioning of the steal time
between idle time (time which we ceded to the hypervisor in the idle
loop) and actual stolen time is somewhat approximate at the moment.

This is all based quite heavily on what s390 does, and it uses the
generic interfaces that were added by the s390 developers,
i.e. account_system_time(), account_user_time(), etc.

This patch doesn't add any new interfaces between the kernel and
userspace, and doesn't change the units in which time is reported to
userspace by things such as /proc/stat, /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat, getrusage(),
times(), etc.  Internally the various task and cpu times are stored in
timebase units, but they are converted to USER_HZ units (1/100th of a
second) when reported to userspace.  Some precision is therefore lost
but there should not be any accumulating error, since the internal
accumulation is at full precision.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: use lwsync in atomics, bitops, lock functions</title>
<updated>2006-01-13T10:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-13T04:37:17+00:00</published>
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eieio is only a store - store ordering. When used to order an unlock
operation loads may leak out of the critical region. This is potentially
buggy, one example is if a user wants to atomically read a couple of
values.

We can solve this with an lwsync which orders everything except store - load.

I removed the (now unused) EIEIO_ON_SMP macros and the c versions
isync_on_smp and eieio_on_smp now we dont use them. I also removed some
old comments that were used to identify inline spinlocks in assembly,
they dont make sense now our locks are out of line.

Another interesting thing was that read_unlock was using an eieio even
though the rest of the spinlock code had already been converted to
use lwsync.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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eieio is only a store - store ordering. When used to order an unlock
operation loads may leak out of the critical region. This is potentially
buggy, one example is if a user wants to atomically read a couple of
values.

We can solve this with an lwsync which orders everything except store - load.

I removed the (now unused) EIEIO_ON_SMP macros and the c versions
isync_on_smp and eieio_on_smp now we dont use them. I also removed some
old comments that were used to identify inline spinlocks in assembly,
they dont make sense now our locks are out of line.

Another interesting thing was that read_unlock was using an eieio even
though the rest of the spinlock code had already been converted to
use lwsync.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge</title>
<updated>2006-01-12T18:21:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-12T18:21:22+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix up delete/modify conflict of arch/ppc/kernel/process.c by hand (it's
gone, gone, gone).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Fix up delete/modify conflict of arch/ppc/kernel/process.c by hand (it's
gone, gone, gone).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] sched: add cacheflush() asm</title>
<updated>2006-01-12T17:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-12T09:05:27+00:00</published>
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Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid potential FP corruption with preempt and UP</title>
<updated>2006-01-12T09:09:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-11T11:11:39+00:00</published>
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Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the
lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled.  The race
is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task
gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU.  It will take
an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state
to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has
stored.  Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement
lazy CPU state on SMP.

The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the
thread_struct.  To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state()
function from process.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the
lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled.  The race
is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task
gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU.  It will take
an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state
to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has
stored.  Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement
lazy CPU state on SMP.

The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the
thread_struct.  To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state()
function from process.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: sanitize header files for user space includes</title>
<updated>2006-01-09T04:13:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2005-12-16T21:43:46+00:00</published>
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include/asm-ppc/ had #ifdef __KERNEL__ in all header files that
are not meant for use by user space, include/asm-powerpc does
not have this yet.

This patch gets us a lot closer there. There are a few cases
where I was not sure, so I left them out. I have verified
that no CONFIG_* symbols are used outside of __KERNEL__
any more and that there are no obvious compile errors when
including any of the headers in user space libraries.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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include/asm-ppc/ had #ifdef __KERNEL__ in all header files that
are not meant for use by user space, include/asm-powerpc does
not have this yet.

This patch gets us a lot closer there. There are a few cases
where I was not sure, so I left them out. I have verified
that no CONFIG_* symbols are used outside of __KERNEL__
any more and that there are no obvious compile errors when
including any of the headers in user space libraries.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move some extern declarations from C code into headers</title>
<updated>2005-11-10T04:53:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-10T04:53:40+00:00</published>
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This also make klimit have the same type on 32-bit as on 64-bit,
namely unsigned long, and defines and initializes it in one place.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This also make klimit have the same type on 32-bit as on 64-bit,
namely unsigned long, and defines and initializes it in one place.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros</title>
<updated>2005-11-10T02:10:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-10T01:56:55+00:00</published>
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This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
compatibility across different CPUs or configs.  A new header,
asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros.  It
uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files.  Headers (bitops.h,
uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.

ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
that.  As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
here than in asm-compat.h.

While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.

Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).  Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;dwg@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
compatibility across different CPUs or configs.  A new header,
asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros.  It
uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files.  Headers (bitops.h,
uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.

ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
that.  As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
here than in asm-compat.h.

While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.

Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).  Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;dwg@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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