linux/arch
Jimi Xenidis 96f013fe1b powerpc/kexec: Add kexec "hold" support for Book3e processors
Motivation:
IBM Blue Gene/Q comes with some very strange firmware that I'm trying to get out
of using in the kernel.  So instead I spin all the threads in the boot wrapper
(using the firmware) and have them enter the kexec stub, pre-translated at the
virtual "linear" address, never touching firmware again.

This works strategy works wonderfully, but I need the following patch in the
kexec stub. I believe it should not effect Book3S and Book3E does not appear
to be here yet so I'd love to get any criticisms up front.

This patch adds two items:

1) Book3e requires that GPR4 survive the "hold" process, so we make
   sure that happens.
2) Book3e has no real mode, and the hold code exploits this.  Since
   these processors ares always translated, we arrange for the kexeced
   threads to enter the hold code using the normal kernel linear mapping.

Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:00:39 +11:00
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alpha ALPHA: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-01-09 08:58:57 -08:00
arm64 - Missing include in asm/compat.h. 2013-01-04 10:41:54 -08:00
avr32 ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
blackfin ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
c6x These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
cris ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
frv ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
h8300 These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
hexagon Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
ia64 Driver core __dev* removal patches 2013-01-03 16:17:50 -08:00
m32r ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
m68k ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
microblaze Merge branch 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2013-01-07 07:39:32 -08:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-01-07 07:50:41 -08:00
mn10300 ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
openrisc ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
parisc ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
powerpc powerpc/kexec: Add kexec "hold" support for Book3e processors 2013-01-10 17:00:39 +11:00
s390 ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
score ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
sh ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
sparc SPARC: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:04 -08:00
tile ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
unicore32 ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
x86 X86: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:04 -08:00
xtensa These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00