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2008-05-17[ARM] 5034/1: fix arm{925,926,940,946} dma_flush_range() in WT modeLennert Buytenhek
The CPU's dma_flush_range() operation needs to clean+invalidate the given memory area if the cache is in writeback mode, or do just the invalidate part if the cache is in writethrough mode, but the current proc-arm{925,926,940,946} (incorrectly) do a cache clean in the latter case. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-17[ARM] export copy_pageRussell King
Martin Michlmayr reported that fuse complains: ERROR: "copy_page" [fs/fuse/fuse.ko] undefined! so export the needed function. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-17[ARM] 5026/1: locomo: add .settype for gpio and several small fixesThomas Kunze
irqs.h: * rename IRQ_LOCOMO_SPI_OVRN to IRQ_LOCOMO_SPI_REND locomo.h: * add some definition for locomo spi controller * correct some errors locomo.c: * correct some errors * add set_type for locomo gpio irq chip Signed-off-by: Thomas Kunze <thommycheck@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-17Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: disable mwait for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs x86: fix crash on cpu hotplug on pat-incapable machines x86: remove mwait capability C-state check
2008-05-17x86: disable mwait for AMD family 10H/11H CPUsThomas Gleixner
The previous revert of 0c07ee38c9d4eb081758f5ad14bbffa7197e1aec left out the mwait disable condition for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs. Andreas Herrman said: It depends on the CPU. For AMD CPUs that support MWAIT this is wrong. Family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs will enter C1 on HLT. Powersavings then depend on a clock divisor and current Pstate of the core. If all cores of a processor are in halt state (C1) the processor can enter the C1E (C1 enhanced) state. If mwait is used this will never happen. Thus HLT saves more power than MWAIT here. It might be best to switch off the mwait flag for these AMD CPU families like it was introduced with commit f039b754714a422959027cb18bb33760eb8153f0 (x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10) Re-add the AMD families 10H/11H check and disable the mwait usage for those. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-17x86: fix crash on cpu hotplug on pat-incapable machinesAvi Kivity
pat_disable() is __init, which means it goes away after booting is complete. Unfortunately it is used by the hotplug code if the machine is not pat-capable, causing a crash. Fix by marking pat_disable() as __cpuinit. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-17x86: remove mwait capability C-state checkIngo Molnar
Vegard Nossum reports: | powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description | "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g. | I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up). | | The bisect resulted in this commit: | | commit 0c07ee38c9d4eb081758f5ad14bbffa7197e1aec | Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100 | | x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional. A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes power to be wasted. Bisected-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Update defconfig. sparc64: Fix lmb_reserve() args in find_ramdisk().
2008-05-16sparc64: Update defconfig.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-16sparc64: Fix lmb_reserve() args in find_ramdisk().David S. Miller
This fixes the missing ram regression reported by Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>, much thanks for all of this help in diagnosing this. The second argument to lmb_reserve() is a size, not an end address bounds. Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-16byteorder: don't directly include linux/byteorder/generic.hHarvey Harrison
Use asm/byteorder.h instead. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] macintosh: Replace deprecated __initcall with device_initcall [POWERPC] cell: Fix section mismatches in io-workarounds code [POWERPC] spufs: Fix compile error [POWERPC] Fix uninitialized variable bug in copy_{to|from}_user [POWERPC] Add null pointer check to of_find_property [POWERPC] vmemmap fixes to use smaller pages [POWERPC] spufs: Fix pointer reference in find_victim [POWERPC] 85xx: SBC8548 - Add flash support and HW Rev reporting [POWERPC] 85xx: Fix some sparse warnings for 85xx MDS [POWERPC] 83xx: Enable DMA engine on the MPC8377 MDS board. [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: fix second serial port [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for NOR and NAND flashes [POWERPC] 85xx: Add 8568 PHY workarounds to board code [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet
2008-05-15Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: jbd2: update transaction t_state to T_COMMIT fix ext4: Retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone. ext4: mballoc fix mb_normalize_request algorithm for 1KB block size filesystems ext4: fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) ext4: fix synchronization of quota files in journal=data mode ext4: Fix mount messages when quota disabled ext4: correct mount option parsing to detect when quota options can be changed
2008-05-15initcalls: Fix m68k build and possible buffer overflowCyrill Gorcunov
This patch fixes a build bug on m68k - gcc decides to emit a call to the strlen library function, which we don't implement. More importantly - my previous patch "init: don't lose initcall return values" (commit e662e1cfd434aa234b72fbc781f1d70211cb785b) had introduced potential buffer overflow by wrong calculation of string accumulator size. Use strlcat() instead, fixing both bugs. Many thanks Andreas Schwab and Geert Uytterhoeven for helping to catch and fix the bug. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15Split up 'do_initcalls()' into two simpler functionsLinus Torvalds
One function to just loop over the entries, one function to actually do the call and the associated debugging code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15Clean up 'print_fn_descriptor_symbol()' typesLinus Torvalds
Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual address from there). So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to add a cast. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] fix personality(PER_LINUX32) performance issue [IA64] Properly unregister legacy interrupts [IA64] Remove NULL pointer check for argument never passed as NULL. [IA64] trivial cleanup for perfmon.c [IA64] trivial cleanup for entry.S [IA64] fix interrupt masking for pending works on kernel leave [IA64] allow user to force_pal_cache_flush [IA64] Don't reserve crashkernel memory > 4 GB [IA64] machvec support for SGI UV platform [IA64] Add header files for SGI UV platform
2008-05-15jbd2: update transaction t_state to T_COMMIT fixMingming Cao
Updating the current transaction's t_state is protected by j_state_lock. We need to do the same when updating the t_state to T_COMMIT. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15ext4: Retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone.Aneesh Kumar K.V
If the block allocator gets blocks out of system zone ext4 calls ext4_error. But if the file system is mounted with errors=continue retry block allocation. We need to mark the system zone blocks as in use to make sure retry don't pick them again System zone is the block range mapping block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode table. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-15tty: fix BKL related leak and crashIngo Molnar
Enabling the BKL to be lockdep tracked uncovered the following upstream kernel bug in the tty code, which caused a BKL reference leak: ================================================ [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] ------------------------------------------------ dmesg/3121 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! 1 lock held by dmesg/3121: #0: (kernel_mutex){--..}, at: [<c02f34d9>] opost+0x24/0x194 this might explain some of the atomicity warnings and crashes that -tip tree testing has been experiencing since the BKL was converted back to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15[IA64] fix personality(PER_LINUX32) performance issueHuang, Xiaolan
The patch aims to fix a performance issue for the syscall personality(PER_LINUX32). On IA-64 box, the syscall personality (PER_LINUX32) has poor performance because it failed to find the Linux/x86 execution domain. Then it tried to load the kernel module however it failed always and it used the default execution domain PER_LINUX instead. Requesting kernel modules is very expensive. It caused the performance issue. (see the function lookup_exec_domain in kernel/exec_domain.c). To resolve the issue, execution domain Linux/x86 is always registered in initialization time for IA-64 architecture. Signed-off-by: Xiaolan Huang <xiaolan.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-05-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] show_interrupts: prevent cpu hotplug when walking cpu_online_map. [S390] smp: __smp_call_function_map vs cpu_online_map fix. [S390] tape: Use ccw_dev_id to build cdev_id. [S390] dasd: fix timeout handling in interrupt handler [S390] s390dbf: Use const char * for dbf name. [S390] dasd: Use const in busid functions. [S390] blacklist.c: removed duplicated include [S390] vmlogrdr: module initialization function should return negative errors [S390] sparsemem vmemmap: initialize memmap. [S390] Remove last traces of cio_msg=. [S390] cio: Remove CCW_CMD_SUSPEND_RECONN in front of CCW_CMD_SET_PGID.
2008-05-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: arch/parisc/kernel/perf_asm.S: build fix parisc: remove -traditional from assembler flags parisc: use conditional macro for 64-bit wide ops parisc: Remove ioctl.h content picked up from <asm-generic/ioctl.h>. arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c: use time_* macros parisc: remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem() drivers/parisc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences parisc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences parisc: new termios definitions parisc: fix trivial section name warnings
2008-05-15arch/parisc/kernel/perf_asm.S: build fixKyle McMartin
Missing <linux/init.h> header for __HEAD macro. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: remove -traditional from assembler flagsKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: use conditional macro for 64-bit wide opsKyle McMartin
This work enables us to remove -traditional from $AFLAGS on parisc. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: Remove ioctl.h content picked up from <asm-generic/ioctl.h>.Robert P. J. Day
Now that <asm-generic/ioctl.h> allows overriding of the most commonly changed macro values, take advantage of that. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15[S390] show_interrupts: prevent cpu hotplug when walking cpu_online_map.Heiko Carstens
Surround all the code withing show_interrupts() with get/put_online_cpus() to prevent strange results wrt cpu hotplug. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] smp: __smp_call_function_map vs cpu_online_map fix.Heiko Carstens
Both smp_call_function() and __smp_call_function_map() access cpu_online_map. Both functions run with preemption disabled which protects for cpus going offline. However new cpus can be added and therefore the cpu_online_map can change unexpectedly. So use the call_lock to protect against changes to the cpu_online_map in start_secondary() and all smp_call_* functions. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] tape: Use ccw_dev_id to build cdev_id.Cornelia Huck
To construct the integer containing the information from the bus_id, it is easier to use the data from ccw_dev_id than to parse the bus_id. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] dasd: fix timeout handling in interrupt handlerStefan Weinhuber
When the dasd_int_handler is called with an error code instead of an irb, the associated request should be restarted. This handling was missing from the -ETIMEDOUT case. In fact it should be done in any case. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] s390dbf: Use const char * for dbf name.Cornelia Huck
We should use const char * for passing the name of the debug feature around since it will not be changed. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] dasd: Use const in busid functions.Cornelia Huck
We should use 'const char *' in the busid functions since the strings are not modified anyway. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] blacklist.c: removed duplicated includeHuang Weiyi
Removed duplicated include <asm/cio.h> in drivers/s390/cio/blacklist.c. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] vmlogrdr: module initialization function should return negative errorsMarcin Slusarz
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] sparsemem vmemmap: initialize memmap.Heiko Carstens
Let's just use the generic vmmemmap_alloc_block() function which always returns initialized memory. Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] Remove last traces of cio_msg=.Cornelia Huck
cio_msg= is gone, also remove it from kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] cio: Remove CCW_CMD_SUSPEND_RECONN in front of CCW_CMD_SET_PGID.Michael Ernst
CCW_CMD_SUSPEND_RECONN causes a system hang if the cable of a reserved DASD is disconnected and connected again. Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst <mernst@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c: use time_* macrosS.Caglar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So use the time_after() macro, defined in linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctl [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: S.Caglar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem()Johannes Weiner
show_mem() has no need to print the amount of free swap space manually because show_free_areas() does this already and is called by the former. The two outputs only differ in text formatting: printk("Free swap = %lukB\n", ...); printk("Free swap: %6ldkB\n", ...); Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15drivers/parisc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: new termios definitionsAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15parisc: fix trivial section name warningsHelge Deller
This trivial patch fixes the following section warnings on PARISC: > WARNING: vmlinux.o (.text.1): unexpected section name. >The (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected. > Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file? > Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains > section definitions for use in .S files. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-05-15[POWERPC] macintosh: Replace deprecated __initcall with device_initcallRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-15[POWERPC] cell: Fix section mismatches in io-workarounds codeIshizaki Kou
Fix following warnings: WARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/built-in.o(.devinit.text+0x9c): Section mismatch in reference from the function .cell_setup_phb() to the function .init.text:.iowa_register_bus() WARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/built-in.o(.devinit.text+0xa4): Section mismatch in reference from the function .cell_setup_phb() to the function .init.text:.io_workaround_init() Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-15[POWERPC] spufs: Fix compile errorFUJITA Tomonori
With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING disabled, I got the following error: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c: In function 'spu_switch_log_notify': linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:2542: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_tb' make[4]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-15[POWERPC] Fix uninitialized variable bug in copy_{to|from}_userNate Case
Calls to copy_to_user() or copy_from_user() can fail when copying N bytes, where N is a constant less than 8, but not 1, 2, 4, or 8, because 'ret' is not initialized and is only set if the size is 1, 2, 4 or 8, but is tested after the switch statement for any constant size <= 8. This fixes it by initializing 'ret' to 1, causing the code to fall through to the __copy_tofrom_user call for sizes other than 1, 2, 4 or 8. Signed-off-by: Dave Scidmore <dscidmore@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-15[POWERPC] Add null pointer check to of_find_propertyTimur Tabi
Update function of_find_property() to return NULL if the device_node passed to it is also NULL. Otherwise, passing NULL will cause a null pointer dereference. Without this, the legacy_serial driver will crash if there's no 'chosen' node in the device tree. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-15[POWERPC] vmemmap fixes to use smaller pagesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the address space, and to configure the page size of that region dynamically at boot. The problem with the current approach of always using 16M pages is that it's not well suited to machines that have small amounts of memory such as small partitions on pseries, or PS3's. In fact, on the PS3, failure to allocate the 16M page backing vmmemmap tends to prevent hotplugging the HV's "additional" memory, thus limiting the available memory even more, from my experience down to something like 80M total, which makes it really not very useable. The logic used by my match to choose the vmemmap page size is: - If 16M pages are available and there's 1G or more RAM at boot, use that size. - Else if 64K pages are available, use that - Else use 4K pages I've tested on a POWER6 (16M pages) and on an iSeries POWER3 (4K pages) and it seems to work fine. Note that I intend to change the way we organize the kernel regions & SLBs so the actual region will change from 0xf back to something else at one point, as I simplify the SLB miss handler, but that will be for a later patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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