linux.git/include/asm-powerpc/thread_info.h, branch master

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00

from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where  was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support for tracehook

2008-07-28T06:30:50+00:00

This adds TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support for powerpc.  When set,
we call tracehook_notify_resume() on the way to user mode.
This overloads do_signal() to do the work, but changes its
arguments to it has the TIF_* bits handy in a register and
drops the useless first argument that was always zero.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

clean up duplicated alloc/free_thread_info

2008-07-25T17:53:28+00:00

We duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many platforms (the
majority uses __get_free_pages/free_pages).  This patch defines common
defines and removes these duplicated defines.
__HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR is introduced for platforms that do
something different.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Defer processing of interrupts when the CPU wakes from sleep mode

2008-05-16T13:22:28+00:00

This provides a way to defer processing of an interrupt that wakes the
processor out of sleep mode.  On 32-bit platforms that use an
interrupt to wake the processor, we have to have interrupts enabled in
hardware at the point where we go to sleep, otherwise the processor
will never wake up.  However, because interrupts are logically
disabled at this point, we don't want to process the interrupt
straight away.

This is handled by setting the _TLF_SLEEPING flag.  When we get an
interrupt and _TLF_SLEEPING is set, we firstly clear the MSR_EE
(external interrupt enable) bit in the saved MSR value, and secondly
we then return to the address in the link register, like we do for
_TLF_NAPPING, but without actually handling the interrupt.

Note that this is handled somewhat differently on powerbooks, so this
new code will only be used on non-Apple machines.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Define and use TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK

2008-05-14T12:31:33+00:00

Replace TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK with TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK and define
our own set_restore_sigmask() function.  This saves the costly
SMP-safe set_bit operation, which we do not need for the sigmask
flag since TIF_SIGPENDING always has to be set too.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix kernel stack allocation alignment

2008-04-24T10:57:33+00:00

The powerpc kernel stacks need to be naturally aligned, as they
contain the thread info at the bottom, which is obtained by
clearing the low bits of the stack pointer.

However, when using 64K pages, the stack is smaller than a page,
so we use kmalloc to allocate it, but that doesn't provide the
alignment guarantee we need.

It appeared to work so far... until one enables SLUB debugging
which then returns unaligned pointers.  Ooops...

This fixes it by using a slab cache with enforced alignment.  It
relies on my previous patch that adds a thread_info_cache_init()
callback.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag

2007-07-31T22:39:38+00:00

Remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for all processor architectures.  The
flag was not used excecpt on IA-64 where the patch replaces it with
TIF_PERFMON_WORK.

Signed-off-by: stephane eranian 
Cc: 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Reserve threadinfo flags for perfmon2

2007-06-14T12:29:55+00:00

Reserve two TIF flags for perfmon2 and shift them into the low 16 bits
so we can use single assembly instructions to create constants based off
them.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] PM: Fix SMP races in the freezer

2006-12-13T17:05:49+00:00

Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the
PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it.  Unfortunately there
are two SMP-related problems with this approach.  First, a task running on
another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set
PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent
state.  Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and
refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a
task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just
set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it.  If
the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE
hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task
will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed.

To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell
tasks that they should go to the refrigerator.  Instead, we can introduce a
special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to
change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it.

To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make
freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read
its "freeze" flag.  We should also make sure that refrigerator() will
always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/

2006-04-26T11:56:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse