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Using 64k pages on 64-bit PowerPC systems makes life difficult for
emulators that are trying to emulate an ISA, such as x86, which use a
smaller page size, since the emulator can no longer use the MMU and
the normal system calls for controlling page protections. Of course,
the emulator can emulate the MMU by checking and possibly remapping
the address for each memory access in software, but that is pretty
slow.
This provides a facility for such programs to control the access
permissions on individual 4k sub-pages of 64k pages. The idea is
that the emulator supplies an array of protection masks to apply to a
specified range of virtual addresses. These masks are applied at the
level where hardware PTEs are inserted into the hardware page table
based on the Linux PTEs, so the Linux PTEs are not affected. Note
that this new mechanism does not allow any access that would otherwise
be prohibited; it can only prohibit accesses that would otherwise be
allowed. This new facility is only available on 64-bit PowerPC and
only when the kernel is configured for 64k pages.
The masks are supplied using a new subpage_prot system call, which
takes a starting virtual address and length, and a pointer to an array
of protection masks in memory. The array has a 32-bit word per 64k
page to be protected; each 32-bit word consists of 16 2-bit fields,
for which 0 allows any access (that is otherwise allowed), 1 prevents
write accesses, and 2 or 3 prevent any access.
Implicit in this is that the regions of the address space that are
protected are switched to use 4k hardware pages rather than 64k
hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64k page support). In fact
the whole process is switched to use 4k hardware pages when the
subpage_prot system call is used, but this could be improved in future
to switch only the affected segments.
The subpage protection bits are stored in a 3 level tree akin to the
page table tree. The top level of this tree is stored in a structure
that is appended to the top level of the page table tree, i.e., the
pgd array. Since it will often only be 32-bit addresses (below 4GB)
that are protected, the pointers to the first four bottom level pages
are also stored in this structure (each bottom level page contains the
protection bits for 1GB of address space), so the protection bits for
addresses below 4GB can be accessed with one fewer loads than those
for higher addresses.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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If the low level MMU hash table insertion returns an error (which
can happen in some rare circumstances when the hypervisor refuses
the insertion of a PTE, typically if you try to access junk via
/dev/mem), the generated signal had an incorrect si_addr value due
to a bug in the assembly, which was loading it as a 32 bits quantity
instead of a 64 bits quantity.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
(currently POWER5+, POWER6 and PA6T).
We detect that the machine supports 1TB segments by looking at the
ibm,processor-segment-sizes property in the device tree.
We don't currently use 1TB segments for user addresses < 1T, since
that would effectively prevent 32-bit processes from using huge pages
unless we also had a way to revert to using 256MB segments. That
would be possible but would involve extra complications (such as
keeping track of which segment size was used when HPTEs were inserted)
and is not addressed here.
Parts of this patch were originally written by Ben Herrenschmidt.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This saves 4k on non pSeries builds (except for iSeries where it saves
almost 4k).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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David Gibson pointed out that swapper_pg_dir actually need to be
PGD_TABLE_SIZE bytes long not PAGE_SIZE. This actually saves 64k in
the bss for a kernel ppc64_defconfig built with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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It is just a C char array, so declare it thusly.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There's no need to call the runlatch on functions on processors that
don't implement them (CPU_FTR_CTRL).
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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out of head_64.S and into platforms/iseries/exception.S
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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It makes head_64.S a bit more readable and will allow us to move the
iSeries exceptions elsewhere.
This also removes the last line of the comment:
* The following macros define the code that appears as
* the prologue to each of the exception handlers. They
* are split into two parts to allow a single kernel binary
* to be used for pSeries and iSeries.
* LOL. One day... - paulus
Anything is possible. :-)
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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We need to have xLparMap in head_64.S so that it is at a fixed address
(because the linker will not resolve (address & 0xffffffff) for us).
But the assembler miscalculates the KERNEL_VSID() expressions. So put
the confusing expressions into asm-offsets.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8174): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.prom_init (between '.__boot_from_prom' and '.__after_prom_start')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8498): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.early_setup (between '.start_here_multiplatform' and '.start_here_common')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8514): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.setup_system (between '.start_here_common' and 'system_call_common')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8530): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.start_kernel (between '.start_here_common' and 'system_call_common')
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8124): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.iSeries_early_setup (between '.__start_initialization_iSeries' and '.__mmu_off')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8128): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.early_setup (between '.__start_initialization_iSeries' and '.__mmu_off')
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Remove references to pSeries and OpenFirmware in the __secondary_hold
usage comment. __secondary_hold is a generic routine and can be used
by other platforms.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Save the trap number in the case of getting a bad stack in an exception
handler. It is sometimes useful to know what exception it was that caused
this to happen. Without this, no trap number is reported.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This is now inaccurate because we may not have entered prom_init() and
r3 is overwritten immediately anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Remove some redundant isync instructions.
enable_64b_mode() already does an isync, so there is no need to do it again.
Signed-off-by: MOKUNO, Masakazu <mokuno@sm.sony.co.jp>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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To the issue: some point during 2.6.20 development, Paul Mackerras
introduced the "lazy IRQ disabling" patch (very cool work, BTW).
In that patch, the performance monitor unit exception was marked as
"maskable", in the sense that if interrupts were soft-disabled, that
exception could be ignored. This broke my PowerPC profiling code.
The symptom that I see is that a varying number of interrupts
(from 0 to $n$, typically closer to 0) get delivered, when, in
reality, it should always be very close to $n$.
The issue stems from the way masking is being done. Masking in
this fashion seems to work well with the decrementer and external
interrupts, because they are raised again until "really" handled.
For the PMU, however, this does not apply (at least on my Xserver
machine with a 970FX processor). If the PMU exception is not handled,
it will _not_ be re-raised (at least on my machine). The documentation
states that the PMXE bit in MMCR0 is set to 0 when the PMU exception
is raised. However, software must re-set the bit to re-enable PMU
exceptions. If the exception is ignored (as currently) not only is
that interrupt lost, but because software does not re-set PMXE, the
PMU registers are "frozen" forever.
[This patch means that performance monitor exceptions are taken and
handled even if irqs are off, as long as some other interrupt hasn't
come along and caused interrupts to be hard-disabled. In this sense
the PMU exception becomes like an NMI. The oprofile code for most
powerpc processors does nothing that is unsafe in an NMI context, but
the Cell oprofile code does a spin_lock_irqsave. However, that turns
out to be OK because Cell doesn't actually use the performance
monitor exception; performance monitor interrupts come in as a
regular interrupt on Cell, so will be disabled when irqs are off.
-- paulus.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Commit 3ccfc65c5004e5fe5cfbffe43b8acc686680b53e missed the same fixes for
legacy iSeries specific code, so make some more symbols no longer global.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Since iSeries is merged to MULTIPLATFORM, there is no way to build a 64bit
kernel without MULTIPLATFORM, so PPC_MULTIPLATFORM can be removed in
64bit-only files.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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It turns out that the linker warnings on 64-bit powerpc about "section
blah exceeds stub group size" were being triggered by conditional
branches in head_64.S branching to global symbols, whether in
head_64.S or in other files. This eliminates the warnings by making
some global symbols in head_64.S no longer global, and by rearranging
some branches.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
[ Yee-haa. Maybe I'll notice newly introduced real warnings now - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add check for 970GX for __cpu_preinit_ppc970.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There are currently two versions of the functions for applying the
feature fixups, one for CPU features and one for firmware features. In
addition, they are both in assembly and with separate implementations
for 32 and 64 bits. identify_cpu() is also implemented in assembly and
separately for 32 and 64 bits.
This patch replaces them with a pair of C functions. The call sites are
slightly moved on ppc64 as well to be called from C instead of from
assembly, though it's a very small change, and thus shouldn't cause any
problem.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The lazy IRQ disable patch missed a couple of places where the
interrupt enable flags need to be restored correctly. First, we
weren't restoring the paca->hard_enabled flag on interrupt exit.
Instead of saving it on entry, we compute it from the MSR_EE bit
in the MSR we are restoring at exit. Secondly, the MMU hash miss
code was clearing both paca->soft_enabled and paca->hard_enabled
but not restoring them in the case where hash_page was able to
resolve the miss from the Linux page tables.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This implements a lazy strategy for disabling interrupts. This means
that local_irq_disable() et al. just clear the 'interrupts are
enabled' flag in the paca. If an interrupt comes along, the interrupt
entry code notices that interrupts are supposed to be disabled, and
clears the EE bit in SRR1, clears the 'interrupts are hard-enabled'
flag in the paca, and returns. This means that interrupts only
actually get disabled in the processor when an interrupt comes along.
When interrupts are enabled by local_irq_enable() et al., the code
sets the interrupts-enabled flag in the paca, and then checks whether
interrupts got hard-disabled. If so, it also sets the EE bit in the
MSR to hard-enable the interrupts.
This has the potential to improve performance, and also makes it
easier to make a kernel that can boot on iSeries and on other 64-bit
machines, since this lazy-disable strategy is very similar to the
soft-disable strategy that iSeries already uses.
This version renames paca->proc_enabled to paca->soft_enabled, and
changes a couple of soft-disables in the kexec code to hard-disables,
which should fix the crash that Michael Ellerman saw. This doesn't
yet use a reserved CR field for the soft_enabled and hard_enabled
flags. This applies on top of Stephen Rothwell's patches to make it
possible to build a combined iSeries/other kernel.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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and use it an all the obvious places in assembler code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Reduce default cacheline size on 64-bit powerpc from 128 bytes to 64.
This is the architected minimum. In most cases we'll still end up using
cache line information from the device tree, but defaults are used during
early boot and doing a few dcbst/icbi's too many there won't do any harm.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Cleanup CPU inits a bit more, Geoff Levand already did some earlier.
* Move CPU state save to cpu_setup, since cpu_setup is only ever done
on cpu 0 on 64-bit and save is never done more than once.
* Rename __restore_cpu_setup to __restore_cpu_ppc970 and add
function pointers to the cputable to use instead. Powermac always
has 970 so no need to check there.
* Rename __970_cpu_preinit to __cpu_preinit_ppc970 and check PVR before
calling it instead of in it, it's too early to use cputable.
* Rename pSeries_secondary_smp_init to generic_secondary_smp_init since
everyone but powermac and iSeries use it.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The firmware of POWER4 and JS20 systems does not switch the cpu to 64bit
mode when the registered system_reset and machine_check handlers get called.
If a 32bit process runs on that cpu at the time of the event, the cpu
remains in 32bit mode. xmon and kdump can not deal with it, the result is
an error like 'Bad kernel stack pointer fff2aad0 at 3200'.
xmon just loses some register info, but booting the kdump kernel usually fails.
Both handlers are not hot paths. Duplicate the EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES macro
and add two instructions to switch to 64bit:
li r11,5;
rldimi r10,r11,61,0;
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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There's a small period early in boot where we don't know which cpu we're
running on. That's ok, except that it means we have no paca, or more
correctly that our paca pointer points somewhere random.
So that we can safely call things like smp_processor_id(), we need a paca,
so just assume we're on cpu 0. No code should _write_ to the paca before
we've set the correct one up.
We setup the proper paca after we've scanned the flat device tree in
early_setup(), so there's no need to do it again in start_here_common.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This patch allows the kernel to recognized that it was loaded at zero
and the copy down of the image is unnecessary. This is useful for
Simulators and kexec models.
On a typical 3.8 MiB vmlinux.strip this saves about 2.3 million instructions.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There's no need to set the boot cpu paca in asm, so do it in C so us
mere mortals can understand it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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None of this seems to be necessary, so let's see if can remove it and not
break anything. Booted on iSeries & pSeries here.
NB. we don't remove the hvReleaseData, we just move it down so that the file
reads more clearly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability,
Availability and Serviceability" features.
It doesn't yet handle some of the RAS interrupts (the ones described in
iic_is/iic_irr), I'm still working on a proper way to expose these. They
are essentially a cascaded controller by themselves (sic !) though I may
just handle them locally to the iic driver. I need also to sync with
David Erb on the way he hooked in the performance monitor interrupt.
So that's all for 2.6.17 and I'll do more work on that with my rework of
the powerpc interrupt layer that I'm hacking on at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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We weren't using the recommended sequence for putting the CPU into
nap mode. When I changed the idle loop, for some reason 7447A cpus
started hanging when we put them into nap mode. Changing to the
recommended sequence fixes that.
The complexity here is that the recommended sequence is a loop that
keeps putting the cpu back into nap mode. Clearly we need some way
to break out of the loop when an interrupt (external interrupt,
decrementer, performance monitor) occurs. Here we use a bit in
the thread_info struct to indicate that we need this, and the exception
entry code notices this and arranges for the exception to return
to the value in the link register, thus breaking out of the loop.
We use a new `local_flags' field in the thread_info which we can
alter without needing to use an atomic update sequence.
The PPC970 has the same recommended sequence, so we do the same thing
there too.
This also fixes a bug in the kernel stack overflow handling code on
32-bit, since it was causing a value that we needed in a register to
get trashed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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We currently have a hack to flip the boot cpu and its secondary thread
to logical cpuid 0 and 1. This means the logical - physical mapping will
differ depending on which cpu is boot cpu. This is most apparent on
kexec, where we might kexec on any cpu and therefore change the mapping
from boot to boot.
The patch below does a first pass early on to work out the logical cpuid
of the boot thread. We then fix up some paca structures to match.
Ive also removed the boot_cpuid_phys variable for ppc64, to be
consistent we use get_hard_smp_processor_id(boot_cpuid) everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The address of variable val in prom_init_stdout is passed to prom_getprop.
prom_getprop casts the pointer to u32 and passes it to call_prom in the hope
that OpenFirmware stores something there.
But the pointer is truncated in the lower bits and the expected value is
stored somewhere else.
In my testing I had a stackpointer of 0x0023e6b4. val was at offset 120,
wich has address 0x0023e72c. But the value passed to OF was 0x0023e728.
c00000000040b710: 3b 01 00 78 addi r24,r1,120
...
c00000000040b754: 57 08 00 38 rlwinm r8,r24,0,0,28
...
c00000000040b784: 80 01 00 78 lwz r0,120(r1)
...
c00000000040b798: 90 1b 00 0c stw r0,12(r27)
...
The stackpointer came from 32bit code.
The chain was yaboot -> zImage -> vmlinux
PowerMac OpenFirmware does appearently not handle the ELF sections
correctly. If yaboot was compiled in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lilo-10.1.1/yaboot, then the stackpointer is
unaligned. But the stackpointer is correct if yaboot is compiled in
/tmp/yaboot.
This bug triggered since 2.6.15, now prom_getprop is an inline
function. gcc clears the lower bits, instead of just clearing the
upper 32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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yaboot is scrogged and calls us with an invalid stack alignment,
it seems.
Thanks to David Woodhouse to pointing me to the problem.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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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/<pid>/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 <paulus@samba.org>
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HMT support is currently broken and needs to be reworked to play nicely
with the SMT scheduler. Remove the bit rotten bits for the time being.
I also updated an incorrect comment, we enter __secondary_hold with the
physical cpu id in r3.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The runlatch SPR can take a lot of time to write. My original runlatch
code would set it on every exception entry even though most of the time
this was not required. It would also continually set it in the idle
loop, which is an issue on an SMT capable processor.
Now we cache the runlatch value in a threadinfo bit, and only check for
it in decrementer and hardware interrupt exceptions as well as the idle
loop. Boot on POWER3, POWER5 and iseries, and compile tested on pmac32.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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For UP to SMP kexec to work we need to jump into pSeries_secondary_smp_init
event on a UP + KEXEC kernel. The secondary cpus will not find their hw_cpu_id
in the paca and so they'll jump into kexec_wait, ready for a kexec.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree. I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Since 404849bbd2bfd62e05b36f4753f6e1af6050a824 we've been using
LOAD_REG_ADDRBASE, which uses the toc pointer, in decrementer_iSeries_masked.
This can explode if we take the decrementer interrupt while we're in a module,
because the toc pointer in r2 will be the module's toc pointer.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries
hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level
per-cpu structure. This doesn't have to be so, the patch below
removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures.
This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel
memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and
hypervisor portions of every PACA. On the other hand it means an
extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca.
The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca
address to a local variable for no particular reason.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This patch consolidates the variety of macros used for loading 32 or
64-bit constants in assembler (LOADADDR, LOADBASE, SET_REG_TO_*). The
idea is to make the set of macros consistent across 32 and 64 bit and
to make it more obvious which is the appropriate one to use in a given
situation. The new macros and their semantics are described in the
comments in ppc_asm.h.
In the process, we change several places that were unnecessarily using
immediate loads on ppc64 to use the GOT/TOC. Likewise we cleanup a
couple of places where we were clumsily subtracting PAGE_OFFSET with
asm instructions to use assemble-time arithmetic or the toreal() macro
instead.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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