linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c, branch v2.6.26-rc7

[POWERPC] Initialize lockdep earlier

2008-05-09T10:22:58+00:00

This moves lockdep_init() to before udbg_early_init() as the later
can call things that acquire spinlocks etc...  This also makes printk
safer to use earlier.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Document when printk is useable

2008-05-09T10:22:58+00:00

When debugging early boot problems, it's common to sprinkle printk's
all over the place.  However, on 64-bit powerpc, this can lead to
memory corruption if done too early due to the PACA pointer and
lockdep core not being initialized.

This adds some comments to early_setup() that document when it is
safe to do so in order to save time for whoever has to debug that
stuff next.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Make emergency stack safe for current_thread_info() use

2008-04-30T09:49:48+00:00

The current_thread_info() macro, used by preempt_count(), assumes the
base address and size of the stack are THREAD_SIZE aligned.

The emergency stack currently isn't either of these things, which
could potentially cause problems anytime we're running on the
emergency stack.  That includes when we detect a bad kernel stack
pointer, and also during early_setup_secondary().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Raise the upper limit of NR_CPUS and move the pacas into the BSS

2008-04-24T10:58:04+00:00

This adds the required functionality to fill in all pacas at runtime.

With NR_CPUS=1024
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 137 1704032       0 1704169  1a00e9 arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.o :Before
 121 1179744  524288 1704153  1a00d9 arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.o :After

Also remove unneeded #includes from arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] 85xx: Add support for relocatable kernel (and booting at non-zero)

2008-04-24T10:58:01+00:00

Added support to allow an 85xx kernel to be run from a non-zero physical
address (useful for cooperative asymmetric multiprocessing situations and
kdump).  The support can be configured at compile time by setting
CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, CONFIG_KERNEL_START, and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START as
desired.

Alternatively, the kernel build can set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE.  Setting this
config option causes the kernel to determine at runtime the physical
addresses of CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET and CONFIG_KERNEL_START.  If
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, then CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START has no meaning.
However, CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START will always be used to set the LOAD program
header physical address field in the resulting ELF image.

Currently we are limited to running at a physical address that is a
multiple of 256M.  This is due to how we map TLBs to cover
lowmem.  This should be fixed to allow 64M or maybe even 16M alignment
in the future.  It is considered an error to try and run a kernel at a
non-aligned physical address.

All the magic for this support is accomplished by proper initialization
of the kernel memory subsystem and use of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET.

The use of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET only affects normal memory and not IO mappings.
ioremap uses map_page and isn't affected by ARCH_PFN_OFFSET.

/dev/mem continues to allow access to any physical address in the system
regardless of how CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is set.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc

2008-04-18T05:38:47+00:00

This adds the low level irq tracing hooks to the powerpc architecture
needed to enable full lockdep functionality.

This is partly based on Johannes Berg's initial version.  I removed
the asm trampoline that isn't needed (thus improving performance) and
modified all sorts of bits and pieces, reworking most of the assembly,
etc...

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Clean up some linker and symbol usage

2008-04-16T21:46:13+00:00

* PAGE_OFFSET is not always the start of code, use _stext instead.
* grab PAGE_SIZE and KERNELBASE from asm/page.h like ppc64 does.  Makes the
  code a bit more common and provide a single place to manipulate the
  defines for things like kdump.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too.

2008-02-14T00:56:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion

2007-11-08T03:15:30+00:00

We had an historical confusion in the kernel between cache line
and cache block size. The former is an implementation detail of
the L1 cache which can be useful for performance optimisations,
the later is the actual size on which the cache control
instructions operate, which can be different.

For some reason, we had a weird hack reading the right property
on powermac and the wrong one on any other 64 bits (32 bits is
unaffected as it only uses the cputable for cache block size
infos at this stage).

This fixes the booting-without-of.txt documentation to mention
the right properties, and fixes the 64 bits initialization code
to look for the block size first, with a fallback to the line
size if the property is missing.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Quieten cache information at boot

2007-10-17T12:30:09+00:00

After 6 years the ppc64 kernel still thinks its important to tell me my
cache line size is 0x80 bytes. I think most people who care know that by
now. The rest probably cant even understand the hex output.

Since we might have misconfigured firmware or cpus that have a linesize
that isnt 128 bytes, I still print it out for those cases. If people
would prefer to remove it completely, lets do it.

Also for lpar remove the htab_address printout since its not used.

Anton
ppc64 boot log usability expert

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras