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Paul Mackerras
d31626f70b powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd >= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i < size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted && (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-01-15 13:59:11 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
ae39c58c2e powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
TIF_PERFMON_WORK and TIF_PERFMON_CTXSW are completely unused.  They
appear to be related to the old perfmon2 code, which has been
superseded by the perf_event infrastructure.  This removes their
definitions so that the bits can be used for other purposes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-01-15 13:59:07 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
527d151131 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc LE updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "With my previous pull request I mentioned some remaining Little Endian
  patches, notably support for our new ABI, which I was sitting on
  making sure it was all finalized.

  The toolchain folks confirmed it now, the new ABI is stable and merged
  with gcc, so we are all good.  Oh and we actually missed the actual
  Kconfig switch for LE so here it is, along with a couple more bug
  fixes.

  I have more fixes but not related to LE so I'll send them as a
  separate pull request tomorrow, let's get this one out of the way.

  Note that this supports running user space binaries using the new ABI,
  but the kernel itself still needs to be built with the old one.  We'll
  bring fixes for that after -rc1.

  Here's Anton log that goes with this series:

     This patch series adds support for the new ABI, LPAR support for
     H_SET_MODE and finally adds a kconfig option and defconfig.

     ABIv2 support was recently committed to binutils and gcc, and should
     be merged into glibc soon.  There are a number of very nice
     improvements including the removal of function descriptors.  Rusty's
     kernel patches allow binaries of either ABI to work, easing the
     transition"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Wrong DWARF CFI in the kernel vdso for little-endian / ELFv2
  powerpc: Add pseries_le_defconfig
  powerpc: Add CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN kernel config option.
  powerpc: Don't use ELFv2 ABI to build the kernel
  powerpc: ELF2 binaries signal handling
  powerpc: ELF2 binaries launched directly.
  powerpc: Set eflags correctly for ELF ABIv2 core dumps.
  powerpc: Add TIF_ELF2ABI flag.
  pseries: Add H_SET_MODE to change exception endianness
  powerpc/pseries: Fix endian issues in pseries EEH code
2013-11-20 15:13:47 -08:00
Rusty Russell
373c76d622 powerpc: Add TIF_ELF2ABI flag.
Little endian ppc64 is getting an exciting new ABI.  This is reflected
by the bottom two bits of e_flags in the ELF header:

	0 == legacy binaries (v1 ABI)
	1 == binaries using the old ABI (compiled with a new toolchain)
	2 == binaries using the new ABI.

We store this in a thread flag, because we need to set it in core
dumps and for signal delivery.  Our chief concern is that it doesn't
use function descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-11-21 09:19:17 +11:00
Thomas Gleixner
00d1a39e69 preempt: Make PREEMPT_ACTIVE generic
No point in having this bit defined by architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de
2013-11-13 20:21:47 +01:00
Li Zhong
22ecbe8dce powerpc: Syscall hooks for context tracking subsystem
This is the syscall slow path hooks for context tracking subsystem,
corresponding to
[PATCH] x86: Syscall hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
  commit bf5a3c13b9

TIF_MEMDIE is moved to the second 16-bits (with value 17), as it seems there
is no asm code using it. TIF_NOHZ is added to _TIF_SYCALL_T_OR_A, so it is
better for it to be in the same 16 bits with others in the group, so in the
asm code, andi. with this group could work.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-05-14 16:00:19 +10:00
Thomas Gleixner
ee761f629d arch: Consolidate tsk_is_polling()
Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing
set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-08 17:39:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8213a2f3ee Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
  several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.

  There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
  do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
  alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
  Uninclude linux/freezer.h
  m32r: trim masks
  avr32: trim masks
  tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
  microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
  mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
  unicore32: remove pointless test
  h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
  parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
  parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
  parisc: fix double restarts
  bury the rest of TIF_IRET
  sanitize tsk_is_polling()
  bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
  mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
  mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
2012-10-12 10:49:08 +09:00
Al Viro
16a8016372 sanitize tsk_is_polling()
Make default just return 0.  The current default (checking
TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it;
ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need
to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all.

ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling())
and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all).  Killed the latter...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-01 09:58:13 -04:00
Tiejun Chen
f0d1128fcb powerpc/kprobe: Introduce a new thread flag
We need to add a new thread flag, TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE,
for emulating stack store operation while exiting exception.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-18 15:32:39 +10:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
8b7b80b9eb powerpc: Uprobes port to powerpc
This is the port of uprobes to powerpc. Usage is similar to x86.

[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
Added new event:
  probe_libc:malloc    (on 0xb4860)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 20
[ perf record: Woken up 22 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 5.843 MB perf.data (~255302 samples) ]
[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf report --stdio
...

    69.05%           tar  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
    28.57%            rm  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     1.32%  avahi-daemon  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.58%          bash  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.28%          sshd  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.08%    irqbalance  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.05%         bzip2  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.04%         sleep  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.03%    multipathd  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.01%      sendmail  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.01%     automount  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc

The trap_nr addition patch is a prereq.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-05 15:35:19 +10:00
Stuart Yoder
9778b696a0 powerpc: Use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO instead of open coded assembly
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-11 14:18:22 +10:00
Al Viro
edd63a2763 set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:50 -04:00
Al Viro
4ebefe3ec7 new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()
helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
6f73b3629f Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Here are the powerpc goodies for 3.5.  Main highlights are:

   - Support for the NX crypto engine in Power7+
   - A bunch of Anton goodness, including some micro optimization of our
     syscall entry on Power7
   - I converted a pile of our thermal control drivers to the new i2c
     APIs (essentially turning the old therm_pm72 into a proper set of
     windfarm drivers).  That's one more step toward removing the
     deprecated i2c APIs, there's still a few drivers to fix, but we are
     getting close
   - kexec/kdump support for 47x embedded cores

  The big missing thing here is no updates from Freescale.  Not sure
  what's up here, but with Kumar not working for them anymore things are
  a bit in a state of flux in that area."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (71 commits)
  powerpc: Fix irq distribution
  Revert "powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags"
  powerpc: Fixing a cputhread code documentation
  powerpc/crypto: Enable the PFO-based encryption device
  powerpc/crypto: Build files for the nx device driver
  powerpc/crypto: debugfs routines and docs for the nx device driver
  powerpc/crypto: SHA512 hash routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: SHA256 hash routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: AES-XCBC mode routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: AES-GCM mode routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: AES-ECB mode routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: AES-CTR mode routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: AES-CCM mode routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: AES-CBC mode routines for nx encryption
  powerpc/crypto: nx driver code supporting nx encryption
  powerpc/pseries: Enable the PFO-based RNG accelerator
  powerpc/pseries/hwrng: PFO-based hwrng driver
  powerpc/pseries: Add PFO support to the VIO bus
  powerpc/pseries: Add pseries update notifier for OFDT prop changes
  powerpc/pseries: Add new hvcall constants to support PFO
  ...
2012-05-23 09:02:42 -07:00
Tiejun Chen
a7243c1d09 powerpc: Remove now unused _TIF_RUNLATCH
'TIF_RUNLATCH' is already dropped from
commit fe1952fc0a

	powerpc: Rework runlatch code

So '_TIF_RUNLATCH' should be removed as well.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-09 10:59:34 +10:00
Thomas Gleixner
96c9511797 powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
The core now has a threadinfo allocator which uses a kmemcache when
THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.059161130@linutronix.de
2012-05-08 14:08:45 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
fe1952fc0a powerpc: Rework runlatch code
This moves the inlines into system.h and changes the runlatch
code to use the thread local flags (non-atomic) rather than
the TIF flags (atomic) to keep track of the latch state.

The code to turn it back on in an asynchronous interrupt is
now simplified and partially inlined.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-03-09 10:55:02 +11:00
Tejun Heo
d88e4cb671 freezer: remove now unused TIF_FREEZE
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2011-11-21 12:32:25 -08:00
Ian Munsie
02424d8966 powerpc/ftrace: Implement raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC
This patch implements the raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC and exports
them for ftrace syscalls to use.

To minimise reworking existing code, I slightly re-ordered the thread
info flags such that the new TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT bit would still fit
within the 16 bits of the andi. instruction's UI field. The instructions
in question are in /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_{32,64}.S to and the
_TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A with the thread flags to see if system call tracing
is enabled.

In the case of 64bit PowerPC, arch_syscall_addr and
arch_syscall_match_sym_name are overridden to allow ftrace syscalls to
work given the unusual system call table structure and symbol names that
start with a period.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
Peter Zijlstra
d6bf29b44d powerpc: mmu_gather rework
Fix up powerpc to the new mmu_gather stuff.

PPC has an extra batching queue to RCU free the actual pagetable
allocations, use the ARCH extentions for that for now.

For the ppc64_tlb_batch, which tracks the vaddrs to unhash from the
hardware hash-table, keep using per-cpu arrays but flush on context switch
and use a TLF bit to track the lazy_mmu state.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:13 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
b6a84016bd mm: NUMA aware alloc_thread_info_node()
Add a node parameter to alloc_thread_info(), and change its name to
alloc_thread_info_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Andreas Dilger
0ddc9324b1 add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-14 11:13:27 +02:00
Andreas Schwab
94f28da840 powerpc: TIF_ABI_PENDING bit removal
Here are the powerpc bits to remove TIF_ABI_PENDING now that
set_personality() is called at the appropriate place in exec.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-02-01 14:00:30 +11:00
Peter Zijlstra
c99e6efe1b sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT
Pull the initial preempt_count value into a single
definition site.

Maintainers for: alpha, ia64 and m68k, please have a look,
your arch code is funny.

The header magic is a bit odd, but similar to the KERNEL_DS
one, CPP waits with expanding these macros until the
INIT_THREAD_INFO macro itself is expanded, which is in
arch/*/kernel/init_task.c where we've already included
sched.h so we're good.

Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10 14:24:05 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
652e8f8d57 Merge commit 'jwb/next' into next 2009-03-03 13:30:03 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
a465f9b694 powerpc: Move is_32bit_task
Move is_32bit_task into asm/thread_info.h, that allows us to test for
32/64bit tasks without an ugly CONFIG_PPC64 ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 15:53:06 +11:00
Yuri Tikhonov
e12401222f powerpc/44x: Support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE
This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards.

For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume
2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space
reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are
actually used. But this may be an acceptable trade-off to achieve the
high performance we have with big PAGE_SIZEs in some applications (e.g.
RAID).

Also with 256KB PAGE_SIZE we increase THREAD_SIZE up to 32KB to minimize
the risk of stack overflows in the cases of on-stack arrays, which size
depends on the page size (e.g. multipage BIOs, NTFS, etc.).

With 256KB PAGE_SIZE we need to decrease the PKMAP_ORDER at least down
to 9, otherwise all high memory (2 ^ 10 * PAGE_SIZE == 256MB) we'll be
occupied by PKMAP addresses leaving no place for vmalloc. We do not
separate PKMAP_ORDER for 256K from 16K/64K PAGE_SIZE here; actually that
value of 10 in support for 16K/64K had been selected rather intuitively.
Thus now for all cases of PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x (including the default, 4KB,
one) we have 512 pages for PKMAP.

Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should
use binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3 with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K
for building applications, which are to be run with the 256KB-page sized
kernel. If using the older binutils, then you should patch them like follows:

	--- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig
	+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c

	-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x10000
	+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x40000

One more restriction we currently have with 256KB page sizes is inability
to use shmem safely, so, for now, the 256KB is available only if you turn
the CONFIG_SHMEM option off (another variant is to use BROKEN).
Though, if you need shmem with 256KB pages, you can always remove the !SHMEM
dependency in 'config PPC_256K_PAGES', and use the workaround available here:
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/19/20

Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-02-14 14:40:04 -05:00
Stephen Rothwell
b8b572e101 powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm
from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-08-04 12:02:00 +10:00