What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.
There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)
common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.
What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.
How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.
Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.
Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use
Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.
(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix the following build failures:
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c: In function 'flipper_pic_map':
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c:105: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_irq_desc'
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c: In function 'hlwd_pic_map':
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:98: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_irq_desc'
These failures are caused by the changes introduced in commit
"powerpc: Remove get_irq_desc()". The reason these drivers were not
updated is that they weren't merged yet.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fix the following build failures:
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c: In function 'hlwd_pic_irq_cascade':
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:135: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_lock' from incompatible pointer type
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:137: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_unlock' from incompatible pointer type
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:145: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_lock' from incompatible pointer type
arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:149: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_unlock' from incompatible pointer type
These failures are caused by the changes introduced in commit
"genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock". The reason this driver
was not updated is that it wasn't merged yet.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The retry logic in ug_putc() is broken.
If the TX fifo is not ready and the counter runs out it will have a
value of -1 and no transfer should be attempted. Also, a counter
with a value of 0 means that the TX fifo got ready in the last try
and the transfer should be attempted.
Reported-by: "Juha Leppanen" <juha_motorsportcom@luukku.com>
Signed-off-by: "Juha Leppanen" <juha_motorsportcom@luukku.com>
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Since commit 57b150cce8, desc->affinity
of an irq is changed after calling desc->chip->set_affinity.
Therefore we need to fix the irq_choose_cpu() not to depend on the
desc->affinity for new mask.
Signed-off-by: Jiajun Wu <b06378@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit d28513bc7f ("Fix bug in pagetable
cache cleanup with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT"), itself a fix for
breakage caused by an earlier clean up patch of mine, contains a
stupid bug. I changed the parameters of the subpage_protection()
function, but failed to update one of the callers.
This patch fixes it, and replaces a void * with a typed pointer so
that the compiler will warn on such an error in future.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The _ONSTACK variant should be used for on-stack completion,
otherwise it will break lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On machines using the Apple U4 bridge (AKA IBM CPC945) PCIe interface such
as the latest generation G5 machines x16 slot or the x16 slot of the
PowerStation, MSIs are currently broken (and will oops when enabling).
This fixes the oops and implements proper support for those. Instead of
using the PCIe <-> HT bridge conversion, on such slots we need to use
a bunch of magic registers in the bridge as the MSI target, encoding
the interrupt number in the low bits of the address itself
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch fixes the handling of VSX alignment faults in little-endian
mode (the current code assumes the processor is in big-endian mode).
The patch also makes the handlers clear the top 8 bytes of the register
when handling an 8 byte VSX load.
This is based on 2.6.32.
Signed-off-by: Neil Campbell <neilc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The function name of cpumask_clear_cpu was not correct. Fortunately
nobody uses that code with hotplug yet :-)
Reported-by: Jin Qing <b24347@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This time without the funny characters.
Fix following build errors generated with DEBUG=1
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c: In function 'htab_dt_scan_page_sizes':
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c:343: error: format '%04x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int'
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c:343: error: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'long unsigned int'
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c: In function 'htab_initialize':
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c:666: error: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int'
... SNIP ...
Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use the new unreachable() macro instead of for(;;);
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
And add the __acquires() and __releases() annotations, while at it.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If an online-attempt on a CPU which has been offlined using H_CEDE
with an appropriate cede latency hint fails, don't panic.
Instead print the error message and let the __cpu_up() code notify the
CPU Hotplug framework of the failure, which in turn can notify the
other subsystem through CPU_UP_CANCELED.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Set need to call __set_pte_at() and not set_pte_at() from __change_page_attr()
since the later will perform checks with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM that aren't suitable
to the way we override an existing PTE. (More specifically, it doesn't let
you write over a present PTE).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Now we have high res timers there is less of a reason for a high HZ value.
Furthermore I think there a few reasons we should reduce HZ to 100:
- Timer interrupt overhead. While this overhead is small, there are
applications that are very sensitive to jitter (eg some HPC apps).
- Issues with the timer wheel code. When coming out of NO_HZ idle we work our
way through the timer code one tick at a time. If we have been idle a long
time, this adds up - I sometimes see milliseconds of time spent in that
loop.
Long term we should fix the timer wheel algorithm, but for now if we reduce
HZ then we reduce the amount of work the timer code has to do when coming
out of idle.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Token what? Lets save some space in our powerpc kernels and remove token
ring support.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Machines with acenic adapters are rare these days, so we may as well make it
a module. Cramfs is also very rarely used so we can make it a module.
Together this saves 143kB on a 64bit compile:
text data bss dec hex filename
8247176 1729404 1221988 11198568 aae068 vmlinux~
8134997 1727588 1188836 11051421 a8a19d vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
It's possible to set CONFIG_XICS without CONFIG_PCI_MSI. When that happens,
the kernel fails to build with
arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o: In function `.xics_startup':
xics.c:(.text+0x12f60): undefined reference to `.unmask_msi_irq' make: ***
[.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Furthermore, as noted by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, "CONFIG_XICS should be
made invisible and selected by PSERIES."
This patch fixes PSERIES to select both options
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel[at]csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The wrong variable was returned in the case of an error.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Collaborative Memory Manager (CMM) module allocates individual pages
over time that are not migratable. On a long running system this can
severely impact the ability to find enough pages to support a hotplug
memory remove operation.
This patch adds a memory isolation notifier and a memory hotplug notifier.
The memory isolation notifier will return the number of pages found in
the range specified. This is used to determine if all of the used pages
in a pageblock are owned by the balloon (or other entities in the notifier
chain). The hotplug notifier will free pages in the range which is to be
removed. The priority of this hotplug notifier is low so that it will be
called near last, this helps avoids removing loaned pages in operations
that fail due to other handlers.
CMM activity will be halted when hotplug remove operations are active and
resume activity after a delay period to allow the hypervisor time to
adjust.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
Kbuild: clean up marker
net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
drop explicit include of autoconf.h
kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
kbuild: drop include/asm
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
...
Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
* 'next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (23 commits)
powerpc: fix up for mmu_mapin_ram api change
powerpc: wii: allow ioremap within the memory hole
powerpc: allow ioremap within reserved memory regions
wii: use both mem1 and mem2 as ram
wii: bootwrapper: add fixup to calc useable mem2
powerpc: gamecube/wii: early debugging using usbgecko
powerpc: reserve fixmap entries for early debug
powerpc: wii: default config
powerpc: wii: platform support
powerpc: wii: hollywood interrupt controller support
powerpc: broadway processor support
powerpc: wii: bootwrapper bits
powerpc: wii: device tree
powerpc: gamecube: default config
powerpc: gamecube: platform support
powerpc: gamecube/wii: flipper interrupt controller support
powerpc: gamecube/wii: udbg support for usbgecko
powerpc: gamecube/wii: do not include PCI support
powerpc: gamecube/wii: declare as non-coherent platforms
powerpc: gamecube/wii: introduce GAMECUBE_COMMON
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c.
Hopefully even close to correctly.
* 'module' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
modpost: fix segfault with short symbol names
module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost
module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option
ARM: unexport symbols used to implement floating point emulation
ARM: use unified discard definition in linker script
x86: don't export inline function
sparc64: don't export static inline pci_ functions
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx:
ppc440spe-adma: adds updated ppc440spe adma driver
iop-adma.c: use resource_size()
dmaengine: clarify the meaning of the DMA_CTRL_ACK flag
sh: stylistic improvements for the DMA driver
dmaengine: fix dmatest to verify minimum transfer length and test buffer size
sh: DMA driver has to specify its alignment requirements
Add COH 901 318 DMA block driver v5
Use bitmap library and kill some unused iommu helper functions.
1. s/iommu_area_free/bitmap_clear/
2. s/iommu_area_reserve/bitmap_set/
3. Use bitmap_find_next_zero_area instead of find_next_zero_area
This cannot be simple substitution because find_next_zero_area
doesn't check the last bit of the limit in bitmap
4. Remove iommu_area_free, iommu_area_reserve, and find_next_zero_area
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
dma_mask is, when interpreted as address, the last valid byte, and hence
comparison msut also be done using the last valid of the buffer in
question.
Also fix the open-coded instances in lib/swiotlb.c.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define
USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP. The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so
let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab. They're absolute symbols,
but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the
relocation is often 0.
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html
Inspired-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Name space cleanup for rwlock functions. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping
rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Name space cleanup. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Further name space cleanup. No functional change
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture
specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for
the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt.
Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the
name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin,
atomic_spin or whatever
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
percpu: remove some sparse warnings
percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
...
Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
mm/slab.c
Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc44x_defconfig) failed like this:
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c: In function 'mapin_ram':
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c:318: error: too many arguments to function 'mmu_mapin_ram'
Casued by commit de32400dd2 ("wii: use both
mem1 and mem2 as ram").
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Enable the flag that allows a platform to ioremap memory marked
as reserved.
This is currently needed on the Nintendo Wii video game console
due to the workaround introduced in "wii: use both mem1 and mem2 as ram".
This will no longer be needed when proper discontig memory support
for 32-bit PowerPC is added to the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Add a flag to let a platform ioremap memory regions marked as reserved.
This flag will be used later by the Nintendo Wii support code to allow
ioremapping the I/O region sitting between MEM1 and MEM2 and marked
as reserved RAM in the patch "wii: use both mem1 and mem2 as ram".
This will no longer be needed when proper discontig memory support
for 32-bit PowerPC is added to the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
The Nintendo Wii video game console has two discontiguous RAM regions:
- MEM1: 24MB @ 0x00000000
- MEM2: 64MB @ 0x10000000
Unfortunately, the kernel currently does not support discontiguous RAM
memory regions on 32-bit PowerPC platforms.
This patch adds a series of workarounds to allow the use of the second
memory region (MEM2) as RAM by the kernel.
Basically, a single range of memory from the beginning of MEM1 to the
end of MEM2 is reported to the kernel, and a memory reservation is
created for the hole between MEM1 and MEM2.
With this patch the system is able to use all the available RAM and not
just ~27% of it.
This will no longer be needed when proper discontig memory support
for 32-bit PowerPC is added to the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
The top portion of MEM2 (the second 64MB memory block) in the Nintendo
Wii video game console is used by the firmware running on the Starlet
processor.
Add code to calculate the portion of MEM2 safely useable by the
Broadway processor. When running under the 'mini' firmware this is
easily determined from an in-memory header. Otherwise, a safe default
is used.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter as an early debugging
console on the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles.
The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides
a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial converter.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Add a set of entries to the fixmap table to allow usage of known
reserved virtual address space by early debug code.
The address space reserved is the top 128K of the 32-bit address
space. This allows, if required, the use of a BAT to do the mappings.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Add a default configuration for the Nintendo Wii video game console.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Add platform support for the Nintendo Wii video game console.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Add support for the dual interrupt controller included in the "Hollywood"
chipset of the Nintendo Wii video game console.
This interrupt controller serves both the Broadway processor (as a cascade)
and the Starlet processor, and is used to manage interrupts for the
non-classic hardware.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
