linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.35-rc4

powerpc: Unconditionally enabled irq stacks

2010-06-15T05:02:37+00:00

Irq stacks provide an essential protection from stack overflows through
external interrupts, at the cost of two additionals stacks per CPU.

Enable them unconditionally to simplify the kernel build and prevent
people from accidentally disabling them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/476: Add isync after loading mmu and debug spr's

2010-05-05T14:39:13+00:00

476 requires an isync after loading MMU and debug related SPR's.  Some of
these are in performance-critical paths and may need to be optimized, but
initially, we're playing it safe.

Signed-off-by: Torez Smith  
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer

powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registers

2010-02-17T03:03:17+00:00

powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registers

From: Dave Kleikamp 

Based on patches originally written by Torez Smith.

This patch defines context switch and trap related functionality
for BookE specific Debug Registers. It adds support to ptrace()
for setting and getting BookE related Debug Registers

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Torez Smith  
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Gibson 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior 
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann 
Cc: linuxppc-dev list 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers

2010-02-17T03:03:16+00:00

powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers

From: Dave Kleikamp 

Introduce new config options to simplify the ifdefs pertaining to the
advanced debug registers for booke and 40x processors:

CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS - boolean: true for dac-based processors
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS - number of IAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS - number of DAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS - number of DVC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE - DAC ranges supported

Beginning conservatively, since I only have the facilities to test 440
hardware.  I believe all 40x and booke platforms support at least 2 IAC
and 2 DAC registers.  For 440, 4 IAC and 2 DVC registers are enabled, as
well as the DAC ranges.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Acked-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: TIF_ABI_PENDING bit removal

2010-02-01T03:00:30+00:00

Here are the powerpc bits to remove TIF_ABI_PENDING now that
set_personality() is called at the appropriate place in exec.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix compile errors found by new ppc64e_defconfig

2009-10-27T05:42:41+00:00

Fix the following 3 issues:

arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c: In function 'arch_randomize_brk':
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: 'mmu_highuser_ssize' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: 'MMU_SEGSIZE_1T' undeclared (first use in this function)

In file included from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c:60:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:132: error: redefinition of 'struct mmu_psize_def'
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:159: error: expected identifier or '(' before numeric constant
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:396: error: conflicting types for 'mm_context_t'
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-book3e.h:184: error: previous declaration of 'mm_context_t' was here

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c: In function 'pcibios_unmap_io_space':
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c:100: error: unused variable 'res'

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/ftrace: show real return addresses in modules

2009-10-13T21:20:55+00:00

When the function graph tracer is enabled, it replaces the return address
with a hook back to the tracer. This makes back traces see the hook instead
of the actual return address.

The current code also shows the real address by checking if the return
address jumps to the return_to_handler. If it is, is also prints out
the saved real return address.

On powerpc64, some modules may return to mod_return_to_handler, which
is not checked. This patch will also show the real address if a return
is to mod_return_to_handler as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

powerpc: Move 64bit heap above 1TB on machines with 1TB segments

2009-09-24T05:31:44+00:00

If we are using 1TB segments and we are allowed to randomise the heap, we can
put it above 1TB so it is backed by a 1TB segment. Otherwise the heap will be
in the bottom 1TB which always uses 256MB segments and this may result in a
performance penalty.

This functionality is disabled when heap randomisation is turned off:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space

which may be useful when trying to allocate the maximum amount of 16M or 16G
pages.

On a microbenchmark that repeatedly touches 32GB of memory with a stride of
256MB + 4kB (designed to stress 256MB segments while still mapping nicely into
the L1 cache), we see the improvement:

Force malloc to use heap all the time:
# export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0 MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=-1

Disable heap randomization:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
# time ./test
12.51s

Enable heap randomization:
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
# time ./test
1.70s

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/booke: Don't set DABR on 64-bit BookE, use DAC1 instead

2009-09-11T01:27:59+00:00

Also remove a duplicate setting of it in the context switch path
on BookE.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Clean ifdef usage in copy_thread()

2009-08-20T00:12:43+00:00

Currently, a single ifdef covers SLB related bits and more generic ppc64
related bits, split this in two separate ifdef's since 64-bit BookE will
need one but not the other.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt