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When running under a hypervisor that supports stolen time accounting,
we may call C code from the macro EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON in the
exception entry path, which clobbers CR0.
However, the FPU and vector traps rely on CR0 indicating whether we
are coming from userspace or kernel to decide what to do.
So we need to restore that value after the C call
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Scott Wood
Paul Mackerras
Michael Wolf
Michael Neuling
Tim Abbott
Kumar Gala
Dale Farnsworth
Stephen Rothwell