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2005-06-21[PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanupIngo Molnar
This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that Arjan van de Ven and I came up with. The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the usage side. Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined __smp_processor_id. In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols: - smp_processor_id(): debug variant. - raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h. There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT: - debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to smp_processor_id(). Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new lib/smp_processor_id.c file. All related comments got updated and/or clarified. I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86: {SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT} I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT. (Other architectures are untested, but should work just fine.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20[PATCH] Driver Core: arch: update device attribute callbacksYani Ioannou
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] initialize TCE tablesJohn Rose
A fairly recent platform requirement states that the OS must clear the whole TCE table at setup time, in case firmware left any active mappings in it. Without this initialization, dynamic bus removes can fail. Firmware rejects these requests if active mappings still exist for a slot that has been deallocated by the OS. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] ppc64: use cpu_has_feature macroAnton Blanchard
Use the new cpu_has_feature macros instead of open coding it. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] ppc64: quieten RTAS printksAnton Blanchard
Some rtasd printks were too loud. They would appear on a quiet boot even though they were only informational. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-06-14[PATCH] update ppc64 defconfigOlaf Hering
enable cpusets enable new lpfc and jsm drivers enable new dm-multipath leave new agp disabled disable rivafb, it does not handle the cards in G5 models (FX5200 as example) the new nvidiafb doesnt work on bigendian, yet Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-14[PATCH] ppc64: update example configsPaul Mackerras
Here is a patch to update the example configs in arch/ppc64/configs. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviourPaul Mackerras
This patch fixes some bugs in the ppc64 PER_LINUX32 implementation, noted by Juergen Kreileder: * uname(2) doesn't respect PER_LINUX32, it returns 'ppc64' instead of 'ppc' * Child processes of a PER_LINUX32 process don't inherit PER_LINUX32 Along the way I took the opportunity to move things around so that sys_ppc32.c only has 32-bit syscall emulation functions and to remove the obsolete "fakeppc" command line option. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] ppc64 kprobes: remove spurious MSR_SE maskingAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Remove spurious MSR_SE reset during kprobe processing. single_step_exception() already does it for us. Reset it to be safe when executing the fault_handler. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] ppc64 kprobes: correct kprobe registration return valuesAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Add stricter checks during kprobe registration. Return correct error value so insmod doesn't succeed. Also printk reason for registration failure. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] ppc64 kprobes: don't eat dabr/iabr exceptionsAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Kprobes was eating the hardware instruction and data address breakpoint exceptions. This patch fixes it; kprobes doesn't use those exceptions at all and should ignore them. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <amavin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] ppc64: print negative numbers correctly in boot wrapperOlaf Hering
if num has a value of -1, accessing the digits[] array will fail and the format string will be printed in funny way, or not at all. This happens if one prints negative numbers. Just change the code to match lib/vsprintf.c asm/div64.h cant be used because u64 maps to u32 for this build. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-06-03[PATCH] prom_find_machine_type typo breaks pSeries lpar bootNathan Lynch
A typo in prom_find_machine_type from Ben's recent patch "ppc64: Fix result code handling in prom_init" prevents pSeries LPAR systems from booting. Tested on a pSeries 570 and OpenPower 720 (both Power5 LPAR). Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-02[PATCH] ppc64: remove decr_overclockAnton Blanchard
Now that we have HZ=1000 there is much less of a need for decr_overclock. Remove it. Leave spread_lpevents but move it into iSeries_setup.c. We should look at making event spreading the default some day. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-02[PATCH] ppc64: cleanup iseries runlight supportAnton Blanchard
The iseries has a bar graph on the front panel that shows how busy it is. The operating system sets and clears a bit in the CTRL register to control it. Instead of going to the complexity of using a thread info bit, just set and clear it in the idle loop. Also create two helper functions, ppc64_runlatch_on and ppc64_runlatch_off. Finally don't use the short form of the SPR defines. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-02[PATCH] ppc64: Fix result code handling in prom_initBenjamin Herrenschmidt
prom_init(), the trampoline code that "talks" to Open Firmware during early boot, has various issues with managing OF result codes. Some of my recent fixups in fact made the problem worse on some platforms. This patch reworks it all. Tested on g5, Maple, POWER3 and POWER5. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-01[PATCH] ppc32/ppc64: cleanup /proc/device-treeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This cleans up the /proc/device-tree representation of the Open Firmware device-tree on ppc and ppc64. It does the following things: - Workaround an issue in some Apple device-trees where a property may exist with the same name as a child node of the parent. We now simply "drop" the property instead of creating duplicate entries in /proc with random result... - Do not try to chop off the "@0" at the end of a node name whose unit address is 0. This is not useful, inconsistent, and the code was buggy and didn't always work anyway. - Do not create symlinks for the short name and unit address parts of a node. These were never really used, bloated the memory footprint of the device-tree with useless struct proc_dir_entry and their matching dentry and inode cache bloat. This results in smaller code, smaller memory footprint, and a more accurate view of the tree presented to userland. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-01[PATCH] ppc64: Fix a device-tree bug on Apple'sBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Apple's Open Firmware has a funny bug when creating the /cpus nodes where it leaves a dangling '\0' character in the CPU name which ends up appearing in the full path of the node. This is bogus and confuses /proc/device-tree badly. This patch strips those bogus zero's from the node full path when reading the device-tree from Open Firmware. The "name" property is not modified and still contains the spurrious 0 (it basically contains 0 tailing 0 instead of one) but that shouldn't be a problem. An equivalent patch for ppc32 will follow shortly Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-31[PATCH] ppc64: allow timer based profiling on iseriesAnton Blanchard
We used to have an iseries specific profiler that used /proc/profile. Now thats gone we can use the generic timer based stuff. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-31[PATCH] ppc64: actually call prom_send_capabilitiesPaul Mackerras
When I sent in the patch adding the code for the kernel to tell the firmware about its capabilities on pSeries machines, I included the function to give the capabilities to firmware but somehow forgot the hunk that adds the call to the new function. This patch adds the call. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-25[PATCH] ppc64 iSeries: fix boot time settingStephen Rothwell
For quite a while, there has existed a hypervisor bug on legacy iSeries which means that we do not get the boot time set in the kernel. This patch works around that bug. This was most noticable when the root partition needed to be checked at every boot as the kernel thought it was some time in 1905 until user mode reset the time correctly. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-25[PATCH] ppc64: fix initialisation of gettimeofday calculationsStephen Rothwell
On PPC64, we keep track of when we need to update jiffies (and the variables used to calculate the time of day) based on the time base. If the time base frequence is sufficiently high compared to the processor clock frequency, then it is possible for the time of day variables to be corrupted at the time of the first decrementer interrupt we take. This became obvious on a legacy iSeries where the time base frequency is the same as the processor clock. This one line patch fixes the initialisation so that the time of day variables and the indicator we use to tell when updates are due are better synchronised. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-23[PATCH] ppc64: Fix g5 hw timebase syncBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The hardware sync of the timebase on SMP G5s uses a black magic incantation to the i2c clock chip that was inspired from what Darwin does. However, this was an earlier version of Darwin that was ... buggy ! heh. This causes the latest models to break though when starting SMP, so it's worth fixing. Here's a new version of the incantation based on careful transcription of the said incantations as found in the latest version of apple's temple. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-22[PATCH] ppc64: Fix booting on latest G5 modelsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The latest speedbumped Apple G5 models have a "bug" in the Open Firmware device tree that lacks the proper interrupt routing information for the northbridge i2c controller. Apple's driver silently falls back into a sub-optimal "polled" mode (heh, maybe they didn't even notice the bug because of that :), our driver didn't properly check and crashes :( This patch fixes our driver to not crash, and adds code to the prom_init() OF trampoline code that detects the "bug" and adds the missing information back for this chipset revision. This fixes booting and thermal control on these models. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-06[PATCH] ppc64: enable CONFIG_RTAS_PROC by defaultPaul Mackerras
This patch enables CONFIG_RTAS_PROC by default on pSeries. This will preserve /proc/ppc64/rtas/rmo_buffer, which is needed by librtas. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-06[PATCH] ppc64: global interrupt queue cleanupPaul Mackerras
Move the code to set global interrupt queue membership to xics.c, and remove no longer needed extern declarations. Also call it on all cpus (even the boot cpu) to prepare for kexec. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: R Sharada <sharada@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: remove explicit contig_page_data referencePaul Mackerras
Trivial patch to remove our last direct reference to contig_page_data. This will make it just that much less hard to seperate NUMA and DISCONTIG. Please forward on. Against 2.6.12-rc1 Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: remove unused arch/ppc64/boot/start.cPaul Mackerras
start.c is not referenced in the arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile compile tested with the defconfig. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: remove asm/bootinfo.h includePaul Mackerras
The defines in bootinfo.h are not used, so the include can be removed. According to Ben, birecs are not used on ppc64: on ppc64, we made the decision of enforcing the presence of an OF device-tree and either an OF-like client interface or a kexec like flattened tree. so if your bootloader want to say things to the kernel, it can do so by adding properties to the device-tree compile-tested with defconfig Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: fix reloc_offset commentPaul Mackerras
The code in reloc_offset is actually subtracting the address in the link register from the address calculated by the linker. Perhaps the extended mnemonic `sub' replaced an original `subf' and the comment just did not get updated. bl 1f 1: mflr r3 LOADADDR(r4,1b) sub r3,r4,r3 Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: fix prom.c compile warningPaul Mackerras
The code in unflatten_device_tree knows that get_property is written to only return with lenp equal to 1 when also returning a valid pointer. The gcc 3.3.3 compiler is not able to prove this to itself, so it warns about a possible uninitialized pointer dereference: .../arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c: In function `unflatten_device_tree': .../arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:828: warning: `p' might be used uninitialized in this function Unless it is desired to rework the interaction between the two functions, this will keep the existing behavior but quiet the compiler. Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] arch/ppc64: Replace custom MIN macroTobias Klauser
Replace a custom MIN() macro with the min() macro from kernel.h This patch removes 4 lines of redundant code. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: pgtable.h and other header cleanupsDavid Gibson
This patch started as simply removing a few never-used macros from asm-ppc64/pgtable.h, then kind of grew. It now makes a bunch of cleanups to the ppc64 low-level header files (with corresponding changes to .c files where necessary) such as: - Abolishing never-used macros - Eliminating multiple #defines with the same purpose - Removing pointless macros (cases where just expanding the macro everywhere turns out clearer and more sensible) - Removing some cases where macros which could be defined in terms of each other weren't - Moving imalloc() related definitions from pgtable.h to their own header file (imalloc.h) - Re-arranging headers to group things more logically - Moving all VSID allocation related things to mmu.h, instead of being split between mmu.h and mmu_context.h - Removing some reserved space for flags from the PMD - we're not using it. - Fix some bugs which broke compile with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: add missing Kconfig help textJesper Juhl
There's no help text for CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - add one. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc64: remove hidden -fno-omit-frame-pointer for schedule.cAnton Blanchard
While looking at code generated by gcc4.0 I noticed some functions still had frame pointers, even after we stopped ppc64 from defining CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. It turns out kernel/Makefile hardwires -fno-omit-frame-pointer on when compiling schedule.c. Create CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER and define it on architectures that dont require frame pointers in sched.c code. (akpm: blame me for the name) Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse
2005-05-04[PATCH] ISA DMA Kconfig fixes - part 1Al Viro
A bunch of drivers use ISA DMA helpers or their equivalents for platforms that have ISA with different DMA controller (a lot of ARM boxen). Currently there is no way to put such dependency in Kconfig - CONFIG_ISA is not it (e.g. it is not set on platforms that have no ISA slots, but have on-board devices that pretend to be ISA ones). New symbol added - ISA_DMA_API. Set when we have functional enable_dma()/set_dma_mode()/etc. set of helpers. Next patches in the series will add missing dependencies for drivers that need them. I'm very carefully staying the hell out of the recurring flamefest on what exactly CONFIG_ISA would mean in ideal world - added symbol has a well-defined meaning and for now I really want to treat it as completely independent from the mess around CONFIG_ISA. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-03[PATCH] ppc64: fix gcc 4.0 vs CONFIG_ALTIVECBenjamin Herrenschmidt
gcc-4.0 generates altivec code implicitly when -mcpu indicates an altivec capable CPU which is not suitable for the kernel. However, we used to set -mcpu=970 when CONFIG_ALTIVEC was set because a gcc-3.x bug prevented from using -maltivec along with -mcpu=power4, thus prevented building the RAID6 altivec code. This patch fixes all of this by testing for the gcc version. If 4.0 or later, just normally use -mcpu=power4 and let the RAID6 code add -maltivec to the few files it needs to be compiled with altivec support. For 3.x, we still use -mcpu=970 to work around the above problem, which is fine as 3.x will never implicitly generate altivec code. The Makefile hackery may not be the most lovely, I welcome anybody more skilled than me to improve it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-03Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse
2005-05-01[PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()Jesper Juhl
Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use valid_signal(). This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _schedPaul E. McKenney
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier "Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: use smp_mb and smp_wmbAnton Blanchard
Use smp_mb and smp_wmb. In particular smp_wmb is lighter weight than wmb. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: enforce medium thread priority in hypervisor callsAnton Blanchard
Calls into the hypervisor do not raise the thread priority. Ensure we are running at medium priority upon entry to the hypervisor. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: firmware workaroundAnton Blanchard
Recent gcc 4.0 testing uncovered a firmware issue. Some properties are larger than 31 bytes and due to gcc 4.0s better stack allocation this overflow ran over non volatile register storage. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] PPC64: Remove hot busy-wait loop in __hash_pageOlof Johansson
It turns out that our current __hash_page code will do a very hot busy-wait loop waiting on _PAGE_BUSY to be cleared. It even does ldarx/stdcx in the loop, which will bounce reservations around like crazy if there's more than one CPU spinning on the same PTE (or even another PTE in the same reservation granule). The end result is that each fault takes longer when there's contention, which in turn increases the chance of another thread hitting the same fault and also piling up. Not pretty. There's two options here: 1. Do an out-of-line busy loop a'la spinlocks with just loads (no reserves) 2. Just bail and refault if needed. (2) makes sense here: If the PTE is busy, chances are it's in flux anyway and the other code path making a change might just be ready to hash it. This fixes a stampede seen on a large-ish system where a multithreaded HPC app faults in the same text pages on several cpus at the same time. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: tell firmware about kernel capabilitiesPaul Mackerras
On pSeries systems, according to the platform architecture specs, we are supposed to be supplying a structure to firmware that tells firmware about our capabilities, such as which version of the data structures that describe available memory we are expecting to see. The way we end up having to supply this data structure is a bit gross, since it was designed for AIX and doesn't suit us very well. This patch adds the code to supply this data structure to the firmware. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: update to use the new 4L headersBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch converts ppc64 to use the generic pgtable-nopud.h instead of the "fixup" header. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: nvram cleanupsakpm@osdl.org
- Fix arch/ppc64/kernel/nvram.c:342: warning: `part' might be used uninitialized in this function - Various codingstyle tweaks. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] ppc64: Fix irq parsing on powermacPaul Mackerras
When I tried Ben's patches to the powermac sound driver on my G5, I found that it was taking enormous numbers of sound DMA transmit interrupts. This turned out to be because it was incorrectly configured as level-sensitive instead of edge-sensitive, which in turn was because the code that parses the interrupt tree that Open Firmware gives us was incorrectly assigning another device the same irq number as the sound DMA transmit interrupt (i.e. 1). This patch fixes the problem, in a somewhat quick and dirty way for now, but one which will work for all the machines we currently run on. Ultimately Ben and I want to do something more general and robust, but this should go in for 2.6.12. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>