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The lv1_get_virtual_address_space_id_of_ppe hcall takes 0, not 1 input
arguments. Adjust the lv1 hcall table and all calls.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The lv1_net_stop_tx_dma and net_stop_rx_dma hcalls take 2, not 3 input
arguments. Adjust the lv1 hcall table and all calls.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Our die() code was based off a very old x86 version. Update it to
mirror the current x86 code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Remove some unnecessary defines and fix some spelling mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We have a lot of complicated logic that handles possible recursion between
kdump and a system reset exception. We can solve this in a much simpler
way using the same setjmp/longjmp tricks xmon does.
As a first step, this patch removes the old system reset code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch makes pseries_idle_driver not to be registered when
power_save=off kernel boot option is specified. The
cpuidle_disable variable used here is similar to
its usage on x86. If cpuidle_disable is set then
sysfs entries for cpuidle framework are not created
and the required drivers are not loaded.
Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch implements a back-end cpuidle driver for pSeries
based on pseries_dedicated_idle_loop and pseries_shared_idle_loop
routines. The driver is built only if CONFIG_CPU_IDLE is set. This
cpuidle driver uses global registration of idle states and
not per-cpu.
Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch provides cpu_idle_wait() routine for the powerpc
platform which is required by the cpuidle subsystem. This
routine is required to change the idle handler on SMP systems.
The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
but the powerpc implementation is different.
cpuidle_disable variable is to enable/disable cpuidle
framework if power_save option is set during the boot
time.
Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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It's only used inside the same file where it's defined. There's
also no point exporting it anymore.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This adds some more interfaces for OPAL v2
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Define HUGETLB_NEED_PRELOAD in mmu-book3e.h for CONFIG_PPC64 instead
of having a much more complicated #if block. This is easier to read
and maintain.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This avoids an extra find_vma() and is less error-prone.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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For 64-bit FSL_BOOKE implementations, gigantic pages need to be
reserved at boot time by the memblock code based on the command line.
This adds the call that handles the reservation, and fixes some code
comments.
It also removes the previous pr_err when reserve_hugetlb_gpages
is called on a system without hugetlb enabled - the way the code is
structured, the call is unconditional and the resulting error message
spurious and confusing.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The original 32-bit hugetlb implementation used PPC64 vs PPC32 to
determine which code path to take. However, the final hugetlb
implementation for 64-bit FSL ended up shared with the FSL
32-bit code so the actual check needs to be FSL_BOOK3E vs
everything else. This patch changes the include protections to
reflect this.
There are also a couple of related comment fixes.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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There was an unconditional return of "1" in the original code
from David Gibson, and I dropped it because it wasn't needed
for FSL BOOKE 32-bit. However, not all systems (including 64-bit
FSL BOOKE) do loading of the hpte from the fault handler asm
and depend on this function returning 1, which causes a call
to update_mmu_cache() that writes an entry into the tlb.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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If we don't have slices, we should be able to use the generic
hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() code
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Store the node pointer in the MPIC during initialization so that all of
the later operational code can just reuse the cached pointer.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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It turns out that there are only 2 in-tree platforms which use MPICs
which are not "primary": IBM Cell and PowerMac. To reduce the
complexity of the typical board setup code, invert the MPIC_PRIMARY bit
into MPIC_SECONDARY.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The MPIC code can already perform an automatic OF address translation
step as part of mpic_alloc(), but several boards need to use that base
address when they perform mpic_assign_isu().
The easiest solution is to save the computed physical address into the
"struct mpic" for later use by the board code.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The below patch fixes some typos in various parts of the kernel, as well as fixes some comments.
Please let me know if I missed anything, and I will try to get it changed and resent.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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As described in the help text in the patch, this token restricts general
access to /dev/mem as a way of increasing the security. Specifically, access
to exclusive IOMEM and kernel RAM is denied unless CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is
set to 'n'.
Implement the 'devmem_is_allowed()' interface for Powerpc. It will be
called from range_is_allowed() when userpsace attempts to access /dev/mem.
This patch is based on an earlier patch from Steve Best and with input from
Paul Mackerras and Scott Wood.
[BenH] Fixed a typo or two and removed the generic change which should
be submitted as a separate patch
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This adds support for p7IOC (and possibly other IODA v1 IO Hubs)
using OPAL v2 interfaces.
We completely take over resource assignment and assign them using an
algorithm that hands out device BARs in a way that makes them fit in
individual segments of the M32 window of the bridge, which enables us
to assign individual PEs to devices and functions.
The current implementation gives out a PE per functions on PCIe, and a
PE for the entire bridge for PCIe to PCI-X bridges.
This can be adjusted / fine tuned later.
We also setup DMA resources (32-bit only for now) and MSIs (both 32-bit
and 64-bit MSI are supported).
The DMA allocation tries to divide the available 256M segments of the
32-bit DMA address space "fairly" among PEs. This is done using a
"weight" heuristic which assigns less value to things like OHCI USB
controllers than, for example SCSI RAID controllers. This algorithm
will probably want some fine tuning for specific devices or device
types.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This is used for newer IO Hubs such as p7IOC.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Some platforms need to perform resource allocation using a custom algorithm
due to HW constraints, or may want to tweak things globally below a host
bridge. For example OPAL support for IODA will need to perform a
resource allocation pass that applies IODA specific segmentation
constraints to MMIO which cannot be done simply using the kernel generic
resource management code.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This adds a pgprot combination required by some cache-enabled IO device
mappings, such as Freescale datapath (QMan and BMan) portals.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The RTAS firmware flash update is conducted using an RTAS call that is
serialized by lock_rtas() which uses spin_lock. While the flash is in
progress, rtasd performs scan for any RTAS events that are generated by
the system. rtasd keeps scanning for the RTAS events generated on the
machine. This is performed via workqueue mechanism. The rtas_event_scan()
also uses an RTAS call to scan the events, eventually trying to acquire
the spin_lock before issuing the request.
The flash update takes a while to complete and during this time, any other
RTAS call has to wait. In this case, rtas_event_scan() waits for a long time
on the spin_lock resulting in a soft lockup.
Fix: Just before the flash update is performed, the queued rtas_event_scan()
work item is cancelled from the work queue so that there is no other RTAS
call issued while the flash is in progress. After the flash completes, the
system reboots and the rtas_event_scan() is rescheduled.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Nittala <ravi.nittala@in.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Divya Vikas <divya.vikas@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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ICSWX is also used by the A2 processor to access coprocessors,
although not all "chips" that contain A2s have coprocessors.
Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Some pseries IOMMUs cache TCEs but don't snoop when the TCEs are changed
in memory, hence we need manually invalidate in software.
This adds code to do the invalidate. It keys off a device tree property
to say where the to do the MMIO for the invalidate and some information
on what the format of the invalidate including some magic routing info.
it_busno get overloaded with this magic routing info and it_index with
the MMIO address for the invalidate command.
This then gets hooked into the building and freeing of TCEs.
This is only useful on bare metal pseries. pHyp takes care of this when
virtualised.
Based on patch from Milton with cleanups from Mikey.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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decrementer_check_overflow is called from arch_local_irq_restore so
we want to make it as light weight as possible. As such, turn
decrementer_check_overflow into an inline function.
To avoid a circular mess of includes, separate out the two components
of struct decrementer_clock and keep the struct clock_event_device
part local to time.c.
The fast path improves from:
arch_local_irq_restore
0: mflr r0
4: std r0,16(r1)
8: stdu r1,-112(r1)
c: stb r3,578(r13)
10: cmpdi cr7,r3,0
14: beq- cr7,24 <.arch_local_irq_restore+0x24>
...
24: addi r1,r1,112
28: ld r0,16(r1)
2c: mtlr r0
30: blr
to:
arch_local_irq_restore
0: std r30,-16(r1)
4: ld r30,0(r2)
8: stb r3,578(r13)
c: cmpdi cr7,r3,0
10: beq- cr7,6c <.arch_local_irq_restore+0x6c>
...
6c: ld r30,-16(r1)
70: blr
Unfortunately we still setup a local TOC (due to -mminimal-toc). Yet
another sign we should be moving to -mcmodel=medium.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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When re-enabling interrupts we have code to handle edge sensitive
decrementers by resetting the decrementer to 1 whenever it is negative.
If interrupts were disabled long enough that the decrementer wrapped to
positive we do nothing. This means interrupts can be delayed for a long
time until it finally goes negative again.
While we hope interrupts are never be disabled long enough for the
decrementer to go positive, we have a very good test team that can
drive any kernel into the ground. The softlockup data we get back
from these fails could be seconds in the future, completely missing
the cause of the lockup.
We already keep track of the timebase of the next event so use that
to work out if we should trigger a decrementer exception.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Power supply for LBC registers is off when system go to deep-sleep state.
We save the values of registers before suspend and restore to registers
after resume.
We removed the last two reservation arrays from struct fsl_lbc_regs for
allocating less memory and minimizing the memcpy size.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Yutang <b14898@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia Hongtao <B38951@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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The forcedeth changes had a conflict with the conversion over
to atomic u64 statistics in net-next.
The libertas cfg.c code had a conflict with the bss reference
counting fix by John Linville in net-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
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* 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock
Revert "KVM: PPC: Add support for explicit HIOR setting"
KVM: VMX: Check for automatic switch msr table overflow
KVM: VMX: Add support for guest/host-only profiling
KVM: VMX: add support for switching of PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
KVM: s390: announce SYNC_MMU
KVM: s390: Fix tprot locking
KVM: s390: handle SIGP sense running intercepts
KVM: s390: Fix RUNNING flag misinterpretation
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Conflicts:
include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
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This reverts commit a15bd354f083f20f257db450488db52ac27df439.
It exceeded the padding on the SREGS struct, rendering the ABI
backwards-incompatible.
Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
include/linux/kvm.h
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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The Documentation/memory-barriers.txt document requires that atomic
operations that return a value act as a memory barrier both before
and after the actual atomic operation.
Our current implementation doesn't guarantee this. More specifically,
while a load following the isync can not be issued before stwcx. has
completed, that completion doesn't architecturally means that the
result of stwcx. is visible to other processors (or any previous stores
for that matter) (typically, the other processors L1 caches can still
hold the old value).
This has caused an actual crash in RCU torture testing on Power 7
This fixes it by changing those atomic ops to use new macros instead
of RELEASE/ACQUIRE barriers, called ATOMIC_ENTRY and ATMOIC_EXIT barriers,
which are then defined respectively to lwsync and sync.
I haven't had a chance to measure the performance impact (or rather
what I measured with kernel compiles is in the noise, I yet have to
find a more precise benchmark)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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With the introduction of CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS user space debug is
broken on Book-E 64-bit parts that support delayed debug events. When
switch_booke_debug_regs() sets DBCR0 we'll start getting debug events as
MSR_DE is also set and we aren't able to handle debug events from kernel
space.
We can remove the hack that always enables MSR_DE and loads up DBCR0 and
just utilize switch_booke_debug_regs() to get user space debug working
again.
We still need to handle critical/debug exception stacks & proper
save/restore of state for those exception levles to support debug events
from kernel space like we have on 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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kdump fails because we try to execute an HV only instruction. Feature
fixups are being applied after we copy the exception vectors down to 0
so they miss out on any updates.
We have always had this issue but it only became critical in v3.0
when we added CFAR support (breaks POWER5) and v3.1 when we added
POWERNV (breaks everyone).
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [v3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The 802.1X EAPOL handshake hostapd does requires
knowing whether the frame was ack'ed by the peer.
Currently, we fudge this pretty badly by not even
transmitting the frame as a normal data frame but
injecting it with radiotap and getting the status
out of radiotap monitor as well. This is rather
complex, confuses users (mon.wlan0 presence) and
doesn't work with all hardware.
To get rid of that hack, introduce a real wifi TX
status option for data frame transmissions.
This works similar to the existing TX timestamping
in that it reflects the SKB back to the socket's
error queue with a SCM_WIFI_STATUS cmsg that has
an int indicating ACK status (0/1).
Since it is possible that at some point we will
want to have TX timestamping and wifi status in a
single errqueue SKB (there's little point in not
doing that), redefine SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING
to SO_EE_ORIGIN_TXSTATUS which can collect more
than just the timestamp; keep the old constant
as an alias of course. Currently the internal APIs
don't make that possible, but it wouldn't be hard
to split them up in a way that makes it possible.
Thanks to Neil Horman for helping me figure out
the functions that add the control messages.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The lv1_gpu_attribute hcall takes three, not five input
arguments. Adjust the lv1 hcall table and all calls.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
CC: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Since commit [e58aa3d2: genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled],
We run all interrupt handlers with interrupts disabled
and we even check and yell when an interrupt handler
returns with interrupts enabled (see commit [b738a50a:
genirq: Warn when handler enables interrupts]).
So now this flag is a NOOP and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (106 commits)
powerpc/p3060qds: Add support for P3060QDS board
powerpc/83xx: Add shutdown request support to MCU handling on MPC8349 MITX
powerpc/85xx: Make kexec to interate over online cpus
powerpc/fsl_booke: Fix comment in head_fsl_booke.S
powerpc/85xx: issue 15 EOI after core reset for FSL CoreNet devices
powerpc/8xxx: Fix interrupt handling in MPC8xxx GPIO driver
powerpc/85xx: Add 'fsl,pq3-gpio' compatiable for GPIO driver
powerpc/86xx: Correct Gianfar support for GE boards
powerpc/cpm: Clear muram before it is in use.
drivers/virt: add ioctl for 32-bit compat on 64-bit to fsl-hv-manager
powerpc/fsl_msi: add support for "msi-address-64" property
powerpc/85xx: Setup secondary cores PIR with hard SMP id
powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix settlbcam for 64-bit
powerpc/85xx: Adding DCSR node to dtsi device trees
powerpc/85xx: clean up FPGA device tree nodes for Freecsale QorIQ boards
powerpc/85xx: fix PHYS_64BIT selection for P1022DS
powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix setup_initial_memory_limit to not blindly map
powerpc: respect mem= setting for early memory limit setup
powerpc: Update corenet64_smp_defconfig
powerpc: Update mpc85xx/corenet 32-bit defconfigs
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- arch/powerpc/configs/40x/hcu4_defconfig
removed stale file, edited elsewhere
- arch/powerpc/include/asm/udbg.h, arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c:
added opal and gelic drivers vs added ePAPR driver
- drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
moved UPIO_TSI to powerpc vs removed UPIO_DWAPB support
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The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.
The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call. There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.
- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
using it:
- Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
written to would need to be contiguous.
- Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
(reason appears to have been lost)
- Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
of processes that all need to do this with each other
- Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
consider adding in the future (see below)
- Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)
As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems. Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block. Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive. In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock. And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.
There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could. For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy. We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source. I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.
Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI). This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication. And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.
There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2
There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt
This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.
For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We've been getting the header implicitly via module.h in the past
but when we clean that up, we'll get this failure:
CC arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/beat_spu_priv1.o
In file included from arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/beat_spu_priv1.c:22:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/spu.h:190: error: field 'list_mutex' has incomplete type
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/beat_spu_priv1.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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Fix failures in powerpc associated with the previously allowed
implicit module.h presence that now lead to things like this:
arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash32.c:76:1: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash32.c:48:1: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c:51:1: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/powerpc/kernel/iomap.c:36:1: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/canyonlands.c:126:1: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
arch/powerpc/kvm/44x.c:168:59: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared (first use in this function)
[with several contibutions from Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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Geoff Levand
Anton Blanchard
Deepthi Dharwar
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Becky Bruce
Kyle Moffett
Justin P. Mattock
sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Geoff Thorpe
Ravi K. Nittala
Jimi Xenidis
Milton Miller
Jia Hongtao
Tejun Heo
David S. Miller
Linus Torvalds
John W. Linville
Alexander Graf
Kumar Gala
Johannes Berg
Yong Zhang
Christopher Yeoh
Paul Gortmaker