This patch adds some cleanups of the instructions:
o use macros instead of magic numbers
o use macros instead of variables to reduce some overhead
o add new macro for the jal instruction
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1229/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For 32-bit kernel the -mmcount-ra-address option of gcc 4.5 emits one
extra instruction before calling to _mcount so we need to use a different
"b 1f" for it.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1228/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
As documented in the GCC 4.5 docs [1] -mmcount-ra-address uses register
$12 to pass the stack offset of the return address to the _mcount function.
On 64-bit kernels $12 is t0 but in 32-bit kernels it is t4 so we need to
use $12 instead of t0 here to be correct for both kernel types.
[1] GCC documentation: MIPS Options
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/MIPS-Options.html
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1227/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The "nofpu" and "nodsp" kernel command line options currently do not
affect CPUs that are brought online later in the boot process or
hotplugged at runtime. It is desirable to apply the nofpu/nodsp options
to all CPUs in the system, so that surprising results are not seen when
a process migrates from one CPU to another.
[Ralf: Moved definitions of mips_fpu_disabled, fpu_disable,
mips_dsp_disabled and dsp_disable from setup.c to cpu-probe.c to allow
making mips_fpu_disabled and mips_dsp_disabled static.]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1169/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The only way the debugger can handle a trap in inside rcu_lock,
notify_die, or atomic_notifier_call_chain without a recursive fault is
to have a low level "first opportunity handler" do_trap_or_bp() handler.
Generally this will be something the vast majority of folks will not
need, but for those who need it, it is added as a kernel .config
option called KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP.
Also added was a die notification for oops such that kdb can catch an
oops for analysis.
There appeared to be no obvious way to pass the struct pt_regs from
the original exception back to the stack back tracer, so a special
case was added to show_stack() for when kdb is active because you
generally desire to generally look at the back trace of the original
exception.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
These are the minimum changes to the kgdb core in order to enable an
API to connect a new front end (kdb) to the debug core.
This patch introduces the dbg_kdb_mode variable controls where the
user level I/O is routed. It will be routed to the gdbstub (kgdb) or
to the kdb front end which is a simple shell available over the kgdboc
connection.
You can switch back and forth between kdb or the gdb stub mode of
operation dynamically. From gdb stub mode you can blindly type
"$3#33", or from the kdb mode you can enter "kgdb" to switch to the
gdb stub.
The logic in the debug core depends on kdb to look for the typical gdb
connection sequences and return immediately with KGDB_PASS_EVENT if a
gdb serial command sequence is detected. That should allow a
reasonably seamless transition between kdb -> gdb without leaving the
kernel exception state. The two gdb serial queries that kdb is
responsible for detecting are the "?" and "qSupported" packets.
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: Reduce stack_trace usage
lockdep: No need to disable preemption in debug atomic ops
lockdep: Actually _dec_ in debug_atomic_dec
lockdep: Provide off case for redundant_hardirqs_on increment
lockdep: Simplify debug atomic ops
lockdep: Fix redundant_hardirqs_on incremented with irqs enabled
lockstat: Make lockstat counting per cpu
i8253: Convert i8253_lock to raw_spinlock
The sys_ppoll() takes struct 'struct timespec'. This is different for the
N32 and N64 ABIs. Use the compat version to do the proper conversions.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1210/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
---
"MIPS: Calculate proper ebase value for 64-bit kernels"
9af43ea080dd5d6c7b34f38261780e5dd43537bc (lmo) rsp.
f6be75d03c (kernel.org) broke some 64-bit
MIPS systems.
Before this we were using XKPHYS/cached as ebase and computed the uncached
xphsys/unchached address for that area. After that commit ebase became a
32-bit compat address and convert does not work anymore. We now should use
CKSEG1 for this. CKSEG1ADDR does just that in 32-bit and 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1149/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The MIPS implementation of die() forgets to call notify_die() and thus notifiers
registered via register_die_notifier() are not called. This results in kgdb not
being activated on exceptions.
The only subtlety is that notify_die declares its regs argument w/o const, so
the const had to be removed from mips die() as well.
[Ralf: Fixed build error for SGI IP22 and IP28 platforms.]
Signed-off-by: Yury Polyanskiy <ypolyans@princeton.edu>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchworks: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1142/
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
---
The ebase is relative to CKSEG0 not CAC_BASE. On a 32-bit kernel they
are the same thing, for a 64-bit kernel they are not.
It happens to kind of work on a 64-bit kernel as they both reference
the same physical memory. However since the CPU uses the CKSEG0 base,
determining if a J instruction will reach always gives the wrong result
unless we use the same number the CPU uses.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1093/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This is a follow on to the vdso patch.
Since all processes now have signal trampolines permanently mapped, we
can use those instead of putting the trampoline on the stack and
invalidating the corresponding icache across all CPUs. We also get rid
of a bunch of ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR code.
[Ralf: GDB 7.1 which has the necessary modifications to allow backtracing
over signal frames will supposedly be released tomorrow. The old signal
frame format obsoleted by this patch exists in two variations, for sane
processors and for those requiring ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR. So
there was never a GDB which did support backtracing over signal frames
on all MIPS systems. This convinved me this series should be applied and
pushed upstream as soon as possible.]
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/974/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This is a preliminary patch to add a vdso to all user processes. Still
missing are ELF headers and .eh_frame information. But it is enough to
allow us to move signal trampolines off of the stack. Note that emulation
of branch delay slots in the FPU emulator still requires the stack.
We allocate a single page (the vdso) and write all possible signal
trampolines into it. The stack is moved down by one page and the vdso is
mapped into this space.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/975/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Like x86 did in arch/x86/kernel/{process_32.c,process_64.c}, also don't
trace irqsoff for idle.
If there's no useful work to be done, we don't care about the irqsoff
duration. If we trace the idle process, the max duration of irqsoff will
be the idle time and make the irqsoff tracer useless.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1044/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Use the generic ptrace_resume code for PTRACE_SYSCALL, PTRACE_CONT and
PTRACE_KILL.
Also the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE thread flag is now cleared on PTRACE_KILL which
it previously wasn't which is consistent with all architectures using the
modern ptrace code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add generic implementations of the old and really old uname system calls.
Note that sh only implements sys_olduname but not sys_oldolduname, but I'm
not going to bother with another ifdef for that special case.
m32r implemented an old uname but never wired it up, so kill it, too.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On an architecture that supports 32-bit compat we need to override the
reported machine in uname with the 32-bit value. Instead of doing this
separately in every architecture introduce a COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE define in
<asm/compat.h> and apply it directly in sys_newuname().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a generic implementation of the ipc demultiplexer syscall. Except for
s390 and sparc64 all implementations of the sys_ipc are nearly identical.
There are slight differences in the types of the parameters, where mips
and powerpc as the only 64-bit architectures with sys_ipc use unsigned
long for the "third" argument as it gets casted to a pointer later, while
it traditionally is an "int" like most other paramters. frv goes even
further and uses unsigned long for all parameters execept for "ptr" which
is a pointer type everywhere. The change from int to unsigned long for
"third" and back to "int" for the others on frv should be fine due to the
in-register calling conventions for syscalls (we already had a similar
issue with the generic sys_ptrace), but I'd prefer to have the arch
maintainers looks over this in details.
Except for that h8300, m68k and m68knommu lack an impplementation of the
semtimedop sub call which this patch adds, and various architectures have
gets used - at least on i386 it seems superflous as the compat code on
x86-64 and ia64 doesn't even bother to implement it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ipc to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
i8253_lock needs to be a real spinlock in preempt-rt, i.e. it can
not be converted to a sleeping lock.
Convert it to raw_spinlock and fix up all users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100217163751.030764372@linutronix.de>
This is just a test program for raw_spinlocks. The main reason I
wrote it is to validate my spinlock changes that I sent in a previous
patch.
To use it enable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS and CONFIG_SPINLOCK_TEST then at run
time do:
# mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_single
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_multi
On my 600MHz octeon cn5860 (16 CPUs) I get
spin_single spin_multi
base 106885 247941
spinlock_patch 75194 219465
This shows that for uncontended locks the spinlock patch gives 41%
improvement and for contended locks 12% improvement (1/time).
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/969/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The userspace runtime linker uses the elf_platform to find the libraries
optimized for the current CPU archecture variant. First we need to allow it
to be set to something other than NULL. Follow-on patches will set some
values for specific CPUs.
GLIBC already does the right thing. The kernel just needs to supply good
data.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/891/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
AR7 has a larger physical offset than other MIPS based systems and therefore
needs to setup its handlers beyond the usual KSEG0 range. When running the
kernel in mapped mode this modification is also required. Remove function
comment which is now incorrect.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/889/
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/932/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
All call sites of set_except_vector are already annotated with __init, so
annotate that one too.
Signed-off-by: Regards, Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/888/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/860/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For processors that have more than 64 TLBs, we need to decode both
config1 and config4 to determine the total number TLBs.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/866/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For 64-bit kernels with 64KB pages and two level page tables, there are
42 bits worth of virtual address space This is larger than the 40 bits of
virtual address space obtained with the default 4KB Page size and three
levels, so there are no draw backs for using two level tables with this
configuration.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/761/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The patch that adds cpu_probe_vmbits is erroneously writing to reserved
bit 12. Since we are really only probing high bits, don't write this bit
with a one.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/949/
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
As reported by Maxime Bizon, the commit "MIPS: PowerTV: Fix support for
timer interrupts with > 64 external IRQs" have broken the r4k timer
since it didn't initialize the cp0_compare_irq_shift variable used in
c0_compare_int_pending() on the architectures whose cpu_has_mips_r2 is
false.
This patch fixes it via initializing the cp0_compare_irq_shift as the
cp0_compare_irq used in the old c0_compare_int_pending().
Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: mbizon@freebox.fr
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/922/
Tested-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Linux kernel 2.6.32 and later allocate address space from the top of the
kernel virtual memory address space.
This patch implements virtual memory size detection for 64 bit MIPS CPUs
to avoid resulting crashes.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/935/
Reviewed-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The MIPS processor is limited to 64 external interrupt sources. Using a
greater number without IRQ sharing requires reading platform-specific
registers. On such platforms, reading the IntCtl register to determine
which interrupt corresponds to a timer interrupt will not work.
On MIPSR2 systems there is a solution - the TI bit in the Cause register,
specifically indicates that a timer interrupt has occured. This patch uses
that bit to detect interrupts for MIPSR2 processors, which may be expected
to work regardless of how the timer interrupt may be routed in the hardware.
Signed-off-by: David VomLehn (dvomlehn@cisco.com)
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/804/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Currently, MIPS kernels silently overwrite kernel command-line parameters
hardcoded in CONFIG_CMDLINE by the ones received from firmware. Therefore,
using firmware remains the only reliable method to transfer the
command-line parameters, which is not always desirable or convenient, and
the CONFIG_CMDLINE option is thereby effectively rendered useless.
This patch fixes the problem described above and introduces a more flexible
scheme of handling the kernel command line, in a manner identical to what is
currently used for x86. The default behavior, i.e. when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
is not defined, retains the existing semantics, and firmware command-line
arguments override the hardcoded ones.
[Ralf: I fixed up all the defconfig files so the stay unaffected by this
change.]
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/689/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
