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2011-05-19powerpc: Consolidate ipi message mux and demuxMilton Miller1-38/+8
Consolidate the mux and demux of ipi messages into smp.c and call a new smp_ops callback to actually trigger the ipi. The powerpc architecture code is optimised for having 4 distinct ipi triggers, which are mapped to 4 distinct messages (ipi many, ipi single, scheduler ipi, and enter debugger). However, several interrupt controllers only provide a single software triggered interrupt that can be delivered to each cpu. To resolve this limitation, each smp_ops implementation created a per-cpu variable that is manipulated with atomic bitops. Since these lines will be contended they are optimialy marked as shared_aligned and take a full cache line for each cpu. Distro kernels may have 2 or 3 of these in their config, each taking per-cpu space even though at most one will be in use. This consolidation removes smp_message_recv and replaces the single call actions cases with direct calls from the common message recognition loop. The complicated debugger ipi case with its muxed crash handling code is moved to debug_ipi_action which is now called from the demux code (instead of the multi-message action calling smp_message_recv). I put a call to reschedule_action to increase the likelyhood of correctly merging the anticipated scheduler_ipi() hook coming from the scheduler tree; that single required call can be inlined later. The actual message decode is a copy of the old pseries xics code with its memory barriers and cache line spacing, augmented with a per-cpu unsigned long based on the book-e doorbell code. The optional data is set via a callback from the implementation and is passed to the new cause-ipi hook along with the logical cpu number. While currently only the doorbell implemntation uses this data it should be almost zero cost to retrieve and pass it -- it adds a single register load for the argument from the same cache line to which we just completed a store and the register is dead on return from the call. I extended the data element from unsigned int to unsigned long in case some other code wanted to associate a pointer. The doorbell check_self is replaced by a call to smp_muxed_ipi_resend, conditioned on the CPU_DBELL feature. The ifdef guard could be relaxed to CONFIG_SMP but I left it with BOOKE for now. Also, the doorbell interrupt vector for book-e was not calling irq_enter and irq_exit, which throws off cpu accounting and causes code to not realize it is running in interrupt context. Add the missing calls. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-19powerpc: Remove checks for MSG_ALL and MSG_ALL_BUT_SELFMilton Miller1-24/+5
Now that smp_ops->smp_message_pass is always called with an (online) cpu number for the target remove the checks for MSG_ALL and MSG_ALL_BUT_SELF. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-07-09powerpc/book3e: Resend doorbell exceptions to ourselfMichael Ellerman1-0/+10
If we are soft disabled and receive a doorbell exception we don't process it immediately. This means we need to check on the way out of irq restore if there are any doorbell exceptions to process. The problem is at that point we don't know what our regs are, and that in turn makes xmon unhappy. To workaround the problem, instead of checking for and processing doorbells, we check for any doorbells and if there were any we send ourselves another. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-07-09powerpc/book3e: Use set_irq_regs() in the msgsnd/msgrcv IPI pathDavid Gibson1-1/+6
include/asm-generic/irq_regs.h declares per-cpu irq_regs variables and get_irq_regs() and set_irq_regs() helper functions to maintain them. These can be used to access the proper pt_regs structure related to the current interrupt entry (if any). In the powerpc arch code, this is used to maintain irq regs on decrementer and external interrupt exceptions. However, for the doorbell exceptions used by the msgsnd/msgrcv IPI mechanism of newer BookE CPUs, the irq_regs are not kept up to date. In particular this means that xmon will not work properly on SMP, because the secondary xmon instances started by IPI will blow up when they cannot retrieve the irq regs. This patch fixes the problem by adding calls to maintain the irq regs across doorbell exceptions. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-07-09powerpc/book3e: More doorbell cleanups. Sample the PIR registerBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-13/+34
The doorbells use the content of the PIR register to match messages from other CPUs. This may or may not be the same as our linux CPU number, so using that as the "target" is no right. Instead, we sample the PIR register at boot on every processor and use that value subsequently when sending IPIs. We also use a per-cpu message mask rather than a global array which should limit cache line contention. Note: We could use the CPU number in the device-tree instead of the PIR register, as they are supposed to be equivalent. This might prove useful if doorbells are to be used to kick CPUs out of FW at boot time, thus before we can sample the PIR. This is however not the case now and using the PIR just works. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-07-09powerpc/book3e: Move doorbell_exception from traps.c to dbell.cBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-1/+21
... where it belongs Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23powerpc: Add support for using doorbells for SMP IPIKumar Gala1-0/+44
The e500mc supports the new msgsnd/doorbell mechanisms that were added in the Power ISA 2.05 architecture. We use the normal level doorbell for doing SMP IPIs at this point. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>