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2011-07-12powerpc/e500: SPE register saving: take arbitrary struct offsetScott Wood
Previously, these macros hardcoded THREAD_EVR0 as the base of the save area, relative to the base register passed. This base offset is now passed as a separate macro parameter, allowing reuse with other SPE save areas, such as used by KVM. Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-04-20powerpc: Add more Power7 specific definitionsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This adds more SPR definitions used on newer processors when running in hypervisor mode. Along with some other P7 specific bits and pieces Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-09-02powerpc: Account time using timebase rather than PURRPaul Mackerras
Currently, when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is enabled, we use the PURR register for measuring the user and system time used by processes, as well as other related times such as hardirq and softirq times. This turns out to be quite confusing for users because it means that a program will often be measured as taking less time when run on a multi-threaded processor (SMT2 or SMT4 mode) than it does when run on a single-threaded processor (ST mode), even though the program takes longer to finish. The discrepancy is accounted for as stolen time, which is also confusing, particularly when there are no other partitions running. This changes the accounting to use the timebase instead, meaning that the reported user and system times are the actual number of real-time seconds that the program was executing on the processor thread, regardless of which SMT mode the processor is in. Thus a program will generally show greater user and system times when run on a multi-threaded processor than on a single-threaded processor. On pSeries systems on POWER5 or later processors, we measure the stolen time (time when this partition wasn't running) using the hypervisor dispatch trace log. We check for new entries in the log on every entry from user mode and on every transition from kernel process context to soft or hard IRQ context (i.e. when account_system_vtime() gets called). So that we can correctly distinguish time stolen from user time and time stolen from system time, without having to check the log on every exit to user mode, we store separate timestamps for exit to user mode and entry from user mode. On systems that have a SPURR (POWER6 and POWER7), we read the SPURR in account_system_vtime() (as before), and then apportion the SPURR ticks since the last time we read it between scaled user time and scaled system time according to the relative proportions of user time and system time over the same interval. This avoids having to read the SPURR on every kernel entry and exit. On systems that have PURR but not SPURR (i.e., POWER5), we do the same using the PURR rather than the SPURR. This disables the DTL user interface in /sys/debug/kernel/powerpc/dtl for now since it conflicts with the use of the dispatch trace log by the time accounting code. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-28powerpc: Adjust base and index registers in Altivec macrosMichael Wolf
On POWER6 systems RA needs to be the base and RB the index. If they are reversed you take a misdirect hit. Signed-off-by: Mike Wolf <mjwolf@us.ibm.com> ---- Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20powerpc: Modify some ppc_asm.h macros to accomodate 64-bits Book3EBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The way I intend to use tophys/tovirt on 64-bit BookE is different from the "trick" that we currently play for 32-bit BookE so change the condition of definition of these macros to make it so. Also, make sure we only use rfid and mtmsrd instead of rfi and mtmsr for 64-bit server processors, not all 64-bit processors. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-21powerpc: Move VSX load/stores into ppc-opcode.hMichael Neuling
Cleans up the VSX load/store instructions by moving them into ppc-opcode.h. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-04-27powerpc: Use __REF macro instead of old .text.init.refok.Tim Abbott
The section .text.init.refok is deprecated and __REF (.ref.text) should be used in assembly files instead. This patch cleans up a few uses of .text.init.refok in the powerpc architecture. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and supportKumar Gala
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about. We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already have. Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions since older assemblers don't know about them. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-12-23powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32MDale Farnsworth
Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at an address of 32MB. This done by fixing a few places that assume we are loaded at address 0, and by changing several uses of KERNELBASE to use PAGE_OFFSET, instead. Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-09-15powerpc: Use LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE only for constants on 64-bitPaul Mackerras
Using LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE to get the address of kernel symbols generates 5 instructions where LOAD_REG_ADDR can do it in one, and will generate R_PPC64_ADDR16_* relocations in the output when we get to making the kernel as a position-independent executable, which we'd rather not have to handle. This changes various bits of assembly code to use LOAD_REG_ADDR when we need to get the address of a symbol, or to use suitable position-independent code for cases where we can't access the TOC for various reasons, or if we're not running at the address we were linked at. It also cleans up a few minor things; there's no reason to save and restore SRR0/1 around RTAS calls, __mmu_off can get the return address from LR more conveniently than the caller can supply it in R4 (and we already assume elsewhere that EA == RA if the MMU is on in early boot), and enable_64b_mode was using 5 instructions where 2 would do. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-08-04powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asmStephen Rothwell
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>