Pull init_task initializer cleanups from David Howells:
"It doesn't seem useful to have the init_task in a header file rather
than in a normal source file. We could consolidate init_task handling
instead and expand out various macros.
Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling:
(1) Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds for cris, hexagon and
openrisc.
(2) Alter the INIT_TASK_DATA linker script macro to set
init_thread_union and init_stack rather than defining these in C.
Insert init_task and init_thread_into into the init_stack area in
the linker script as appropriate to the configuration, with
different section markers so that they end up correctly ordered.
We can then get merge ia64's init_task.c into the main one.
We then have a bunch of single-use INIT_*() macros that seem only
to be macros because they used to be used per-arch. We can then
expand these in place of the user and get rid of a few lines and
a lot of backslashes.
(3) Expand INIT_TASK() in place.
(4) Expand in place various small INIT_*() macros that are defined
conditionally. Expand them and surround them by #if[n]def/#endif
in the .c file as it takes fewer lines.
(5) Expand INIT_SIGNALS() and INIT_SIGHAND() in place.
(6) Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID in place.
These macros can then be discarded"
* tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID and remove
Expand the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros and remove
Expand various INIT_* macros and remove
Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove
Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union
openrisc: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
hexagon: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
cris: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
The pcidev value stored in pci_dn is only used for NPU/NPU2
initialization. We can easily drop the cached pointer and
use an ancient helper - pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() instead in order
to reduce complexity.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
When enabling SR-IOV in pseries platform, the VF bar properties for a
PF are reported on the device node in the device tree.
This patch adds the IOV Bar resources to Linux structures from the
device tree for later use when configuring SR-IOV by PF driver.
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan J. Alvarez <jjalvare@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
When pseries SR-IOV is enabled and after a PF driver has resumed from
EEH, platform has to be notified of the event so the child VFs can be
allowed to resume their normal recovery path.
This patch makes the EEH operation allow unfreeze platform dependent
code and adds the call to pseries EEH code.
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan J. Alvarez <jjalvare@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To correctly use EEH code one has to make sure that the EEH_PE_VF is
set for dynamic created VFs. Therefore this patch allocates an eeh_pe
of eeh type EEH_PE_VF and associates PE with parent.
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan J. Alvarez <jjalvare@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Add EEH platform operations for pseries to update VF config space.
With this change after EEH, the VF will have updated config space for
pseries platform.
Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan J. Alvarez <jjalvare@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Add user APIs through ioctl to allocate, free, and be notified of an
AFU interrupt.
For opencapi, an AFU can trigger an interrupt on the host by sending a
specific command targeting a 64-bit object handle. On POWER9, this is
implemented by mapping a special page in the address space of a
process and a write to that page will trigger an interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
In the opencapi protocol, host memory contexts are referenced by a
'actag'. During setup, a driver must tell the device how many actags
it can used, and what values are acceptable.
On POWER9, the NPU can handle 64 actags per link, so they must be
shared between all the PCI functions of the link. To get a global
picture of how many actags are used by each AFU of every function, we
capture some data at the end of PCI enumeration, so that actags can be
shared fairly if needed.
This is not powernv specific per say, but rather a consequence of the
opencapi configuration specification being quite general. The number
of available actags on POWER9 makes it more likely to be hit. This is
somewhat mitigated by the fact that existing AFUs are coded by
requesting a reasonable count of actags and existing devices carry
only one AFU.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Implement a few platform-specific calls which can be used by drivers:
- provide the Transaction Layer capabilities of the host, so that the
driver can find some common ground and configure the device and host
appropriately.
- provide the hw interrupt to be used for translation faults raised by
the NPU
- map/unmap some NPU mmio registers to get the fault context when the
NPU raises an address translation fault
The rest are wrappers around the previously-introduced opal calls.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Add opal calls to interact with the NPU:
OPAL_NPU_SPA_SETUP: set the Shared Process Area (SPA)
The SPA is a table containing one entry (Process Element) per memory
context which can be accessed by the opencapi device.
OPAL_NPU_SPA_CLEAR_CACHE: clear the context cache
The NPU keeps a cache of recently accessed memory contexts. When a
Process Element is removed from the SPA, the cache for the link must
be cleared.
OPAL_NPU_TL_SET: configure the Transaction Layer
The Transaction Layer specification defines several templates for
messages to be exchanged on the link. During link setup, the host and
device must negotiate what templates are supported on both sides and
at what rates those messages can be sent.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The fallback RFI flush is used when firmware does not provide a way
to flush the cache. It's a "displacement flush" that evicts useful
data by displacing it with an uninteresting buffer.
The flush has to take care to work with implementation specific cache
replacment policies, so the recipe has been in flux. The initial
slow but conservative approach is to touch all lines of a congruence
class, with dependencies between each load. It has since been
determined that a linear pattern of loads without dependencies is
sufficient, and is significantly faster.
Measuring the speed of a null syscall with RFI fallback flush enabled
gives the relative improvement:
P8 - 1.83x
P9 - 1.75x
The flush also becomes simpler and more adaptable to different cache
geometries.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Platforms with a panic handler that halts the system can have problems
getting kernel messages out, because the panic notifiers are called
before kernel/panic.c does its flushing of printk buffers an console
etc.
This was attempted to be solved with commit a3b2cb30f2 ("powerpc: Do
not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier"), but that wasn't the
right approach and caused other problems, and was reverted by commit
ab9dbf771f.
Instead, the powernv shutdown paths have already had a similar
problem, fixed by taking the message flushing sequence from
kernel/panic.c. That's a little bit ugly, but while we have the code
duplicated, it will work for this case as well. So have ppc panic
handlers do the same flushing before they terminate.
Without this patch, a qemu pseries_le_defconfig guest stops silently
when issued the nmi command when xmon is off and no crash dumpers
enabled. Afterwards, an oops is printed by each CPU as expected.
Fixes: ab9dbf771f ("Revert "powerpc: Do not call ppc_md.panic in fadump panic notifier"")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fix fatal warning during compilation:
In file included from arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:54:0:
./arch/powerpc/include/asm/xive.h:157:20: error: no previous prototype for ‘xive_smp_prepare_cpu’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
extern inline int xive_smp_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { return -EINVAL; }
^
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Merge our fixes branch from the 4.15 cycle.
Unusually the fixes branch saw some significant features merged,
notably the RFI flush patches, so we want the code in next to be
tested against that, to avoid any surprises when the two are merged.
There's also some other work on the panic handling that was reverted
in fixes and we now want to do properly in next, which would conflict.
And we also fix a few other minor merge conflicts.
Merge the topic branch we share with kvm-ppc, this brings in two xive
commits, one from Paul to rework HMI handling, and a minor cleanup to
drop an unused flag.
Since commit 9427ecbed4 ("gpio: Rework of_gpiochip_set_names()
to use device property accessors"), gpio chips have to have a
parent, otherwise devprop_gpiochip_set_names() prematurely exists
with message "GPIO chip parent is NULL" and doesn't proceed
'gpio-line-names' DT property.
This patch wraps the CPM GPIO into a platform driver to allow
assignment of the parent device.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
pseries/drc-info: Provide parallel routines to convert between
drc_index and CPU numbers at runtime, using the older device-tree
properties ("ibm,drc-indexes", "ibm,drc-names", "ibm,drc-types"
and "ibm,drc-power-domains"), or the new property "ibm,drc-info".
Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Firmware Features: Define new bit flag representing the presence of
new device tree property "ibm,drc-info". The flag is used to tell
the front end processor whether the Linux kernel supports the new
property, and by the front end processor to tell the Linux kernel
that the new property is present in the device tree.
Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
feature fixups need to use patch_instruction() early in the boot,
even before the code is relocated to its final address, requiring
patch_instruction() to use PTRRELOC() in order to address data.
But feature fixups applies on code before it is set to read only,
even for modules. Therefore, feature fixups can use
raw_patch_instruction() instead.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
In an effort to remove all instances of 'struct timeval'
from the kernel, I'm changing the powerpc mpic_timer interface
to use plain seconds instead. There is only one user of this
interface, and that doesn't use the microseconds portion, so
the code gets noticeably simpler in the process.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull KVM fixes from Radim Krčmář:
"ARM:
- fix incorrect huge page mappings on systems using the contiguous
hint for hugetlbfs
- support alternative GICv4 init sequence
- correctly implement the ARM SMCC for HVC and SMC handling
PPC:
- add KVM IOCTL for reporting vulnerability and workaround status
s390:
- provide userspace interface for branch prediction changes in
firmware
x86:
- use correct macros for bits"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds
KVM/x86: Fix wrong macro references of X86_CR0_PG_BIT and X86_CR4_PAE_BIT in kvm_valid_sregs()
arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
KVM: arm64: Fix GICv4 init when called from vgic_its_create
KVM: arm/arm64: Check pagesize when allocating a hugepage at Stage 2
Patch provides the ability for a process to
associate a pkey with a address range.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Finally this patch provides the ability for a process to
allocate and free a protection key.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
PAPR defines 'ibm,processor-storage-keys' property. It exports two
values. The first value holds the number of data-access keys and the
second holds the number of instruction-access keys. Due to a bug in
the firmware, instruction-access keys is always reported as zero.
However any key can be configured to disable data-access and/or
disable execution-access. The inavailablity of the second value is not
a big handicap, though it could have been used to determine if the
platform supported disable-execution-access.
Non-PAPR platforms do not define this property in the device tree yet.
Fortunately power8 is the only released Non-PAPR platform that is
supported. Here, we hardcode the number of supported pkey to 32, by
consulting the PowerISA3.0
This patch calculates the number of keys supported by the platform.
Also it determines the platform support for read/write/execution
access support for pkeys.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
[mpe: Use a PVR check instead of CPU_FTR for execute. Restrict to
Power7/8/9 for now until older CPUs are tested.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The AMR/IAMR/UAMOR are part of the program context.
Allow it to be accessed via ptrace and through core files.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The value of the pkey, whose protection got violated,
is made available in si_pkey field of the siginfo structure.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
get_mm_addr_key() helper returns the pkey associated with
an address corresponding to a given mm_struct.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Handle Data and Instruction exceptions caused by memory
protection-key.
The CPU will detect the key fault if the HPTE is already
programmed with the key.
However if the HPTE is not hashed, a key fault will not
be detected by the hardware. The software will detect
pkey violation in such a case.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch provides the implementation for
arch_vma_access_permitted(). Returns true if the
requested access is allowed by pkey associated with the
vma.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Make sure that the kernel does not access user pages without
checking their key-protection.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
[mpe: Integrate with upstream version of pte_access_permitted()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
helper function that checks if the read/write/execute is allowed
on the pte.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Map the PTE protection key bits to the HPTE key protection bits,
while creating HPTE entries.
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Map the key protection bits of the vma to the pkey bits in
the PTE.
The PTE bits used for pkey are 3,4,5,6 and 57. The first
four bits are the same four bits that were freed up initially
in this patch series. remember? :-) Without those four bits
this patch wouldn't be possible.
BUT, on 4k kernel, bit 3, and 4 could not be freed up. remember?
Hence we have to be satisfied with 5, 6 and 7.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch independent code calls arch_override_mprotect_pkey()
to return a pkey that best matches the requested protection.
This patch provides the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch-independent code expects the arch to map
a pkey into the vma's protection bit setting.
The patch provides that ability.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch provides the implementation of execute-only pkey.
The architecture-independent layer expects the arch-dependent
layer, to support the ability to create and enable a special
key which has execute-only permission.
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Store and restore the AMR, IAMR and UAMOR register state of the task
before scheduling out and after scheduling in, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
powerpc has hardware support to disable execute on a pkey.
This patch enables the ability to create execute-disabled
keys.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch provides the detailed implementation for
a user to allocate a key and enable it in the hardware.
It provides the plumbing, but it cannot be used till
the system call is implemented. The next patch will
do so.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cleanup the bits corresponding to a key in the AMR, and IAMR
register, when the key is newly allocated/activated or is freed.
We dont want some residual bits cause the hardware enforce
unintended behavior when the key is activated or freed.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Total 32 keys are available on power7 and above. However
pkey 0,1 are reserved. So effectively we have 30 pkeys.
On 4K kernels, we do not have 5 bits in the PTE to
represent all the keys; we only have 3bits. Two of those
keys are reserved; pkey 0 and pkey 1. So effectively we
have 6 pkeys.
This patch keeps track of reserved keys, allocated keys
and keys that are currently free.
Also it adds skeletal functions and macros, that the
architecture-independent code expects to be available.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Basic plumbing to initialize the pkey system.
Nothing is enabled yet. A later patch will enable it
once all the infrastructure is in place.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
[mpe: Rework copyrights to use SPDX tags]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"More than we'd like after rc8, but nothing very alarming either, just
tying up loose ends before the release:
Since we changed powernv to use cpufreq_get() from show_cpuinfo(), we
see warnings with PREEMPT enabled. But the preempt_disable() in
show_cpuinfo() doesn't actually prevent CPU hotplug as it suggests, so
remove it.
Two updates to the recently merged RFI flush code. Wire up the generic
sysfs file to report the status, and add a debugfs file to allow
enabling/disabling it at runtime.
Two updates to xmon, one to add the RFI flush related fields to the
paca dump, and another to not use hashed pointers in the paca dump.
And one minor fix to add a missing include of linux/types.h in
asm/hvcall.h, not seen to break the build in upstream, but correct
anyway.
Thanks to: Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Michal Suchanek, Nicholas Piggin"
* tag 'powerpc-4.15-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/pseries: include linux/types.h in asm/hvcall.h
powerpc/64s: Allow control of RFI flush via debugfs
powerpc/64s: Wire up cpu_show_meltdown()
powerpc: Don't preempt_disable() in show_cpuinfo()
powerpc/xmon: Don't print hashed pointers in paca dump
powerpc/xmon: Add RFI flush related fields to paca dump
In memory Collection (IMC) counter pmu driver controls the ucode's
execution state. At the system boot, IMC perf driver pause the ucode.
Ucode state is changed to "running" only when any of the nest units
are monitored or profiled using perf tool.
Nest units support only limited set of hardware counters and ucode is
always programmed in the "production mode" ("accumulation") mode. This
mode is configured to provide key performance metric data for most of
the nest units.
But ucode also supports other modes which would be used for "debug" to
drill down specific nest units. That is, ucode when switched to
"powerbus" debug mode (for example), will dynamically reconfigure the
nest counters to target only "powerbus" related events in the hardware
counters. This allows the IMC nest unit to focus on powerbus related
transactions in the system in more detail. At this point, production
mode events may or may not be counted.
IMC nest counters has both in-band (ucode access) and out of band
access to it. Since not all nest counter configurations are supported
by ucode, out of band tools are used to characterize other nest
counter configurations.
Patch provides an interface via "debugfs" to enable the switching of
ucode modes in the system. To switch ucode mode, one has to first
pause the microcode (imc_cmd), and then write the target mode value to
the "imc_mode" file.
Proposed Approach:
In the proposed approach, the function (export_imc_mode_and_cmd) which
creates the debugfs interface for imc mode and command is implemented
in opal-imc.c. Thus we can use imc_get_mem_addr() to get the homer
base address for each chip.
The interface to expose imc mode and command is required only if we
have nest pmu units registered. Employing the existing data structures
to track whether we have any nest units registered will require to
extend data from perf side to opal-imc.c. Instead an integer is
introduced to hold that information by counting successful nest unit
registration. Debugfs interface is removed based on the integer count.
Example for the interface:
$ ls /sys/kernel/debug/imc
imc_cmd_0 imc_cmd_8 imc_mode_0 imc_mode_8
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Remove the allocation of struct imc_events from imc_parse_event().
Instead pass imc_events as a parameter to imc_parse_event(), which is
a pointer to a slot in the array allocated in
update_events_in_group().
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter ("powerpc/perf: Fix a sizeof() typo so we allocate less memory")
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
local_t is used for atomic modifications for per-CPU data, versus
re-entrant modifications via interrupts.
local_t read-modify-write atomic operations are currently implemented
with hardware atomics (larx/stcx), which are quite slow. This patch
implements them by masking all types of interrupts that may do local_t
operations ("standard" and perf interrupts).
Rusty's benchmark (https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/16/450) gives the
following timings for the local_t test, in nanoseconds per iteration:
larx/stcx irq+pmu disable
_inc 38 10
_add 38 10
_read 4 4
_add_return 38 10
There are still some interrupt types (system reset, machine check, and
watchdog), which can not safely use local_t operations, because they
are not masked.
An alternative approach was proposed, using a CR bit to mark a critical
section, which is tested in the interrupt return path, and would then
branch to a fixup handler (similar to exception fixups), which re-starts
the operation. The problem with this was the complexity of the fixup
handler and the latency of the slow path.
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-November/123024.html
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
powerpc implements local_t with atomic operations. There is already
an asm-generic implementation which does this using atomic_t.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To support soft-masking of the performance monitor interrupt, a set of
new powerpc_local_irq_pmu_save() and powerpc_local_irq_restore()
functions are added. And powerpc_local_irq_save() implemented, by
adding a new irq_soft_mask manipulation function
irq_soft_mask_or_return().
Local_irq_pmu_* macros are provided to access these
powerpc_local_irq_pmu* functions which includes
trace_hardirqs_on|off() to match what we have in
include/linux/irqflags.h.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
