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2019-07-15docs: admin-guide: add kdump documentation into itMauro Carvalho Chehab
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use in order to solve issues on their systems. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-13Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Notable changes: - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver, as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't (yet?) made it upstream. - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and kernel crashes. - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for vmalloc when using the Radix MMU. - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros. And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing" * tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits) powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state. powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1 powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore() powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names. powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names. powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM. powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming. powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params. powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name. powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays ...
2019-07-04powerpc/pseries: Add documentation for vcpudispatch_statsNaveen N. Rao
Add a document describing the fields provided by /proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-06-14docs: kdump: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on sysadmins that would be enabling kdump. Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its sub-sections: PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline) I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content, in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-08docs: mark orphan documents as suchMauro Carvalho Chehab
Sphinx doesn't like orphan documents: Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/arm/stm32/overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f429-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f746-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32f769-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32h743-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/arm/stm32/stm32mp157-overview.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/laptops/lg-laptop.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Documentation/virtual/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree So, while they aren't on any toctree, add :orphan: to them, in order to silent this warning. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-03Documentation: powerpc: Expand the DAWR acronymJoel Stanley
Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means. Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-04-20powerpc: Add force enable of DAWR on P9 optionMichael Neuling
This adds a flag so that the DAWR can be enabled on P9 via: echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous The DAWR was previously force disabled on POWER9 in: 9654153158 powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features Also see Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt This is a dangerous setting, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Some users may not care about a bad user crashing their box (ie. single user/desktop systems) and really want the DAWR. This allows them to force enable DAWR. This flag can also be used to disable DAWR access. Once this is cleared, all DAWR access should be cleared immediately and your machine once again safe from crashing. Userspace may get confused by toggling this. If DAWR is force enabled/disabled between getting the number of breakpoints (via PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO) and setting the breakpoint, userspace will get an inconsistent view of what's available. Similarly for guests. For the DAWR to be enabled in a KVM guest, the DAWR needs to be force enabled in the host AND the guest. For this reason, this won't work on POWERVM as it doesn't allow the HCALL to work. Writes of 'Y' to the dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support writing the DAWR. To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest: tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-21powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dumpMahesh Salgaonkar
One of the primary issues with Firmware Assisted Dump (fadump) on Power is that it needs a large amount of memory to be reserved. On large systems with TeraBytes of memory, this reservation can be quite significant. In some cases, fadump fails if the memory reserved is insufficient, or if the reserved memory was DLPAR hot-removed. In the normal case, post reboot, the preserved memory is filtered to extract only relevant areas of interest using the makedumpfile tool. While the tool provides flexibility to determine what needs to be part of the dump and what memory to filter out, all supported distributions default this to "Capture only kernel data and nothing else". We take advantage of this default and the Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) to fundamentally change the memory reservation model for fadump. Instead of setting aside a significant chunk of memory nobody can use, this patch uses CMA instead, to reserve a significant chunk of memory that the kernel is prevented from using (due to MIGRATE_CMA), but applications are free to use it. With this fadump will still be able to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region. Essentially, on a P9 LPAR with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and current upstream: [root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7557 193 6822 12 541 6725 Swap: 4095 0 4095 With this patch: [root@zzxx-yy10 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 8133 194 7464 12 475 7338 Swap: 4095 0 4095 Changes made here are completely transparent to how fadump has traditionally worked. Thanks to Aneesh Kumar and Anshuman Khandual for helping us understand CMA and its usage. TODO: - Handle case where CMA reservation spans nodes. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-20powerpc: Add some documentation of ISA versionsMichael Ellerman
Add some documentation on which CPU versions map to which ISA versions. This is all publicly available information, some of it already in the kernel source, but it's much nicer to have it all in one place. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-09-09Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/Henrik Austad
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out. A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-02powerpc: Document issues with TM on POWER9Michael Neuling
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-07-02powerpc: Document issues with the DAWR on POWER9Michael Neuling
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-07-07Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs. - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs. - Generic & powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9. As well as many other fixes and improvements. Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Yang Li" * tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits) powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction() powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction() powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction() powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp() powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8 ...
2017-06-26scsi: cxlflash: Support AFU debugMatthew R. Ochs
Adopt the SISLite AFU debug capability to allow future CXL Flash adapters the ability to better debug AFU issues. Update the SISLite header with the changes necessary to support AFU debug operations and create a host ioctl interface for user debug software. Also update the cxlflash documentation to describe this new host ioctl. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-06-26scsi: cxlflash: Support LUN provisioningMatthew R. Ochs
Adopt the SISLite AFU LUN provisioning capability to allow future CXL Flash adapters the ability to better manage storage. Update the SISLite header with the changes necessary to support LUN provision operations and create a host ioctl interface for user LUN management software. Also update the cxlflash documentation to describe this new host ioctl. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-06-26scsi: cxlflash: Introduce host ioctl supportMatthew R. Ochs
As staging for supporting various host management functions, add a host ioctl infrastructure to filter ioctl commands and perform operations that are common for all host ioctls. Also update the cxlflash documentation to create a new section for documenting host ioctls. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-06-26scsi: cxlflash: Handle AFU sync failuresUma Krishnan
AFU sync operations are not currently evaluated for failure. This is acceptable for paths where there is not a dependency on the AFU being consistent with the host. Examples include link reset events and LUN cleanup operations. On paths where there is a dependency, such as a LUN open, a sync failure should be acted upon. In the event of AFU sync failures, either log or cleanup as appropriate for operations that are dependent on a successful sync completion. Update documentation to reflect behavior in the event of an AFU sync failure. Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-06-02powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reservedHari Bathini
With commit f6e6bedb7731 ("powerpc/fadump: Reserve memory at an offset closer to bottom of RAM"), memory for fadump is no longer reserved at the top of RAM. But there are still a few places which say so. Change them appropriately. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-05-08powerpc/fadump: update documentation about crashkernel parameter reuseHari Bathini
As we are reusing crashkernel parameter instead of fadump_reserve_mem parameter to specify the memory to reserve for fadump's crash kernel, update the documentation accordingly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035347559.6881.14224829694291758581.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-05Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap(). - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller. - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9. - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0". - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and runtime. - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE. - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts, correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should aid debugging and robustness. - Many fixes and other minor enhancements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy, Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin, Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar, Yang Shi" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits) powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2 powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset() powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event() cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected() cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory ...
2017-04-13scsi: cxlflash: Remove port configuration assumptionsMatthew R. Ochs
At present, the cxlflash driver only supports hardware with two FC ports. The code was initially designed with this assumption and is dependent on having two FC ports - adding more ports will break logic within the driver. To mitigate this issue, remove the existing port assumptions and transition the code to support more than two ports. As a side effect, clarify the interpretation of the DK_CXLFLASH_ALL_PORTS_ACTIVE flag. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-04-13cxl: Add psl9 specific codeChristophe Lombard
The new Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture, level 2, for the IBM POWER9 brings new content and features: - POWER9 Service Layer - Registers - Radix mode - Process element entry - Dedicated-Shared Process Programming Model - Translation Fault Handling - CAPP - Memory Context ID If a valid mm_struct is found the memory context id is used for each transaction associated with the process handle. The PSL uses the context ID to find the corresponding process element. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Fixup comment formatting, unsplit long strings] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-03-31powerpc/fadump: Update fadump documentationHari Bathini
With the unnecessary restriction to reserve memory for fadump at the top of RAM forgone, update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-07Merge tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights: - Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin) - Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al. - Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur) - Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur) - Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver O'Halloran) - Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao) - Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards (Darren Stevens) Fixes: - Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael Ellerman) - xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman) - vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard) - powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui) - powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy) - powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K (Aneesh Kumar K.V) - Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew Donnellan) - Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin) Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard): - Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy() - During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask - Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless - Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little endian - Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds Cleanups & features: - Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens) - Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address (Paul Mackerras) - Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V) - Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU) (Simon Guo) - Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas Piggin) - Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin) - Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey) - Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan) - Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan) - Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard) - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh) - cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat) - cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan) - Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas Piggin) - Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin) - fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael Ellerman) - Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard) - powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey) - Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions (Nicholas Piggin) - Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin) - MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling) - powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman) Minor cleanups: - Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng, Simon Guo" * tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits) powerpc/bpf: Add support for bpf constant blinding powerpc/bpf: Implement support for tail calls powerpc/bpf: Introduce accessors for using the tmp local stack space powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace powerpc/tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec} powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VSXs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VMXs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional FPUs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional GPRs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Check that signals always get delivered selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C selftests/powerpc: Allow tests to extend their kill timeout selftests/powerpc: Introduce GPR asm helper header file selftests/powerpc: Move VMX stack frame macros to header file selftests/powerpc: Rework FPU stack placement macros and move to header file selftests/powerpc: Check for VSX preservation across userspace preemption ...
2016-10-07Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This update includes the usual round of major driver updates (hpsa, be2iscsi, hisi_sas, zfcp, cxlflash). There's a new incarnation of hpsa called smartpqi for which a driver is added, there's some cleanup work of the ibm vscsi target and updates to libfc, plus a whole host of minor fixes and updates and finally the removal of several ISA drivers which seem not to have been used for years" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (173 commits) scsi: mvsas: Mark symbols static where possible scsi: pm8001: Mark symbols static where possible scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking scsi: fcoe: fix off by one in eth2fc_speed() scsi: dtc: remove from tree scsi: t128: remove from tree scsi: pas16: remove from tree scsi: u14-34f: remove from tree scsi: ultrastor: remove from tree scsi: in2000: remove from tree scsi: wd7000: remove from tree scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memory leak in alua_rtpg() scsi: lpfc: Mark symbols static where possible scsi: hpsa: correct call to hpsa_do_reset scsi: ufs: Get a TM service response from the correct offset scsi: ibmvfc: Fix I/O hang when port is not mapped scsi: megaraid_sas: clean function declarations in megaraid_sas_base.c up scsi: ipr: Remove redundant messages at adapter init time scsi: ipr: Don't log unnecessary 9084 error details scsi: smartpqi: raid bypass lba calculation fix ...
2016-09-20powerpc/64: Document the syscall ABINicholas Piggin
Add some documentation for the 64-bit syscall ABI, which doesn't seem to be documented elsewhere. This attempts to document existing practice. The only small discrepancy is glibc clobbers not quite matching the kernel (e.g., xer, some vsyscalls trash cr1 whereas glibc only clobbers cr0). These will be resolved after this document is merged. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-08-29powerpc: signals: Discard transaction state from signal framesCyril Bur
Userspace can begin and suspend a transaction within the signal handler which means they might enter sys_rt_sigreturn() with the processor in suspended state. sys_rt_sigreturn() wants to restore process context (which may have been in a transaction before signal delivery). To do this it must restore TM SPRS. To achieve this, any transaction initiated within the signal frame must be discarded in order to be able to restore TM SPRs as TM SPRs can only be manipulated non-transactionally.. >From the PowerPC ISA: TM Bad Thing Exception [Category: Transactional Memory] An attempt is made to execute a mtspr targeting a TM register in other than Non-transactional state. Not doing so results in a TM Bad Thing: [12045.221359] Kernel BUG at c000000000050a40 [verbose debug info unavailable] [12045.221470] Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000050a40 (msr 0x201033) [12045.221540] Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1] [12045.221586] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV [12045.221634] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables kvm_hv kvm uio_pdrv_genirq ipmi_powernv uio powernv_rng ipmi_msghandler autofs4 ses enclosure scsi_transport_sas bnx2x ipr mdio libcrc32c [12045.222167] CPU: 68 PID: 6178 Comm: sigreturnpanic Not tainted 4.7.0 #34 [12045.222224] task: c0000000fce38600 ti: c0000000fceb4000 task.ti: c0000000fceb4000 [12045.222293] NIP: c000000000050a40 LR: c0000000000163bc CTR: 0000000000000000 [12045.222361] REGS: c0000000fceb7ac0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.7.0) [12045.222418] MSR: 9000000300201033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]> CR: 28444280 XER: 20000000 [12045.222625] CFAR: c0000000000163b8 SOFTE: 0 PACATMSCRATCH: 900000014280f033 GPR00: 01100000b8000001 c0000000fceb7d40 c00000000139c100 c0000000fce390d0 GPR04: 900000034280f033 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR08: 0000000000000000 b000000000001033 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002926400 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR24: 0000000000000000 00003ffff98cadd0 00003ffff98cb470 0000000000000000 GPR28: 900000034280f033 c0000000fceb7ea0 0000000000000001 c0000000fce390d0 [12045.223535] NIP [c000000000050a40] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c [12045.223584] LR [c0000000000163bc] tm_recheckpoint+0x5c/0xa0 [12045.223630] Call Trace: [12045.223655] [c0000000fceb7d80] [c000000000026e74] sys_rt_sigreturn+0x494/0x6c0 [12045.223738] [c0000000fceb7e30] [c0000000000092e0] system_call+0x38/0x108 [12045.223806] Instruction dump: [12045.223841] 7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8 [12045.223955] 4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 <7c0223a6> e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020 [12045.224074] ---[ end trace cb8002ee240bae76 ]--- It isn't clear exactly if there is really a use case for userspace returning with a suspended transaction, however, doing so doesn't (on its own) constitute a bad frame. As such, this patch simply discards the transactional state of the context calling the sigreturn and continues. Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2016-08-23scsi: cxlflash: Update documentationMatthew R. Ochs
Update the block library link in the API documentation. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-08-23scsi: cxlflash: Transition to application close modelMatthew R. Ochs
Caching the adapter file descriptor and performing a close on behalf of an application is a poor design. This is due to the fact that once a file descriptor in installed, it is free to be altered without the knowledge of the cxlflash driver. This can lead to inconsistencies between the application and kernel. Furthermore, the nature of the former design is more exploitable and thus should be abandoned. To support applications performing a close on the adapter file that is associated with a context, a new flag is introduced to the user API to indicate to applications that they are responsible for the close following the cleanup (detach) of a context. The documentation is also updated to reflect this change in behavior. Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-04-11powerpc/eeh: rename EEH from "extended" to "enhanced" error handlingRussell Currey
IBM online documentation for EEH uses "extended error handling" and "enhanced error handling" to refer to the same thing, in different places. The only place mentioning it as "enhanced error handling" in the kernel is the MAINTAINERS file, and it's "extended" in some documentation. IBM originally defined EEH as "enhanced error handling", so standardise all mentions of EEH to use that term. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-09cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guestChristophe Lombard
The new flash.c file contains the logic to flash a new image on the adapter, through a hcall. It is an iterative process, with chunks of data of 1M at a time. There are also 2 phases: write and verify. The flash operation itself is driven from a user-land tool. Once flashing is successful, an rtas call is made to update the device tree with the new properties values for the adapter and the AFU(s) Add a new char device for the adapter, so that the flash tool can access the card, even if there is no valid AFU on it. Co-authored-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-09-02Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This includes one new driver: cxlflash plus the usual grab bag of updates for the major drivers: qla2xxx, ipr, storvsc, pm80xx, hptiop, plus a few assorted fixes. There's another tranch coming, but I want to incubate it another few days in the checkers, plus it includes a mpt2sas separated lifetime fix, which Avago won't get done testing until Friday" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (85 commits) aic94xx: set an error code on failure storvsc: Set the error code correctly in failure conditions storvsc: Allow write_same when host is windows 10 storvsc: use storage protocol version to determine storage capabilities storvsc: use correct defaults for values determined by protocol negotiation storvsc: Untangle the storage protocol negotiation from the vmbus protocol negotiation. storvsc: Use a single value to track protocol versions storvsc: Rather than look for sets of specific protocol versions, make decisions based on ranges. cxlflash: Remove unused variable from queuecommand cxlflash: shift wrapping bug in afu_link_reset() cxlflash: off by one bug in cxlflash_show_port_status() cxlflash: Virtual LUN support cxlflash: Superpipe support cxlflash: Base error recovery support qla2xxx: Update driver version to 8.07.00.26-k qla2xxx: Add pci device id 0x2261. qla2xxx: Fix missing device login retries. qla2xxx: do not clear slot in outstanding cmd array qla2xxx: Remove decrement of sp reference count in abort handler. qla2xxx: Add support to show MPI and PEP FW version for ISP27xx. ...
2015-08-26cxlflash: Virtual LUN supportMatthew R. Ochs
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this adapter. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
2015-08-26cxlflash: Superpipe supportMatthew R. Ochs
Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the traditional filesystem stack. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
2015-07-10Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpcMasanari Iida
This patch fix some spelling typo found in Documentation/powerpc. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-06-19powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactionsSam bobroff
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this behaviour to userspace. Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active transaction fails. This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality as syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that the transaction be explicitly suspended. It also provides a consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390). Performance measurements using http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%. Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-06-07powerpc/dscr: Add documentation for DSCR supportAnshuman Khandual
This patch adds a new documentation file explaining the DSCR support on powerpc platforms. This explains DSCR related data structure, code paths and also available user interfaces. Any further functional changes to the DSCR support in the kernel should definitely update the documentation here. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-06-03cxl: Document external user of existing APIMichael Neuling
Now that libcxl is public, let's document it. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-04-30Revert "powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions"Michael Ellerman
This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84. Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a few issues. Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting path, or if syscall tracing was enabled. Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing path when we are transactional. So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in the next window. NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default. Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-04-14Merge branch 'next-sriov' of ↵Michael Ellerman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc into next Merge Richard's work to support SR-IOV on PowerNV. All generic PCI patches acked by Bjorn. Some minor conflicts with Daniel's pci_controller_ops work. Conflicts: arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
2015-04-11powerpc/tm: Correct minor documentation typosSam bobroff
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-04-11powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactionsSam bobroff
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without performing the syscall. Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active transaction fails. This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality because syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. It also provides a consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390). Performance measurements using http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of a system call increases by about 0.5%. Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> Acked-By: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-03-31powerpc/pci: Add PCI resource alignment documentationWei Yang
In order to enable SRIOV on PowerNV platform, the PF's IOV BAR needs to be adjusted: 1. size expanded 2. aligned to M64BT size This patch documents this change on the reason and how. [bhelgaas: reformat, clarify, expand] Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-10-08cxl: Add documentation for userspace APIsIan Munsie
This documentation gives an overview of the hardware architecture, userspace APIs via /dev/cxl/afuM.N and the syfs files. It also adds a MAINTAINERS file entry for cxl. Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-07-28KVM: PPC: Remove 440 supportAlexander Graf
The 440 target hasn't been properly functioning for a few releases and before I was the only one who fixes a very serious bug that indicates to me that nobody used it before either. Furthermore KVM on 440 is slow to the extent of unusable. We don't have to carry along completely unused code. Remove 440 and give us one less thing to worry about. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2014-06-10Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window. It got a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer ack in it. Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack. There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I still want to sort through and test. The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel with our new v2 ABI. We previously supported v2 userspace but the kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack. This is now sorted mostly thanks to Anton and Rusty. We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for 64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper. This was made harder by the fact that traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it. This meant more churn that just endian fixes. This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes. There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!). Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on P8 by Michael. This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of 4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread). And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..." [ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer. Google knows. ] * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits) powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC() powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC() powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports powerpc: Add cpu family documentation powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks ...
2014-06-05powerpc: Add cpu family documentationMichael Ellerman
This patch adds some documentation on the different cpu families supported by arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-05-05doc: spelling error changesCarlos Garcia
Fixed multiple spelling errors. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia <carlos@cgarcia.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-08-27powerpc: Update the 00-Index in Documentation/powerpcMichael Ellerman
People have been dropping things in here without updating the index, do it for them. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-07-01powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3sMichael Ellerman
Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the included documentation for more details. EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the inner loop. Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a proliferation of PMU callbacks. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>