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bob picco ee6a9333fa sparc64: sparse irq
This patch attempts to do a few things. The highlights are: 1) enable
SPARSE_IRQ unconditionally, 2) kills off !SPARSE_IRQ code 3) allocates
ivector_table at boot time and 4) default to cookie only VIRQ mechanism
for supported firmware. The first firmware with cookie only support for
me appears on T5. You can optionally force the HV firmware to not cookie
only mode which is the sysino support.

The sysino is a deprecated HV mechanism according to the most recent
SPARC Virtual Machine Specification. HV_GRP_INTR is what controls the
cookie/sysino firmware versioning.

The history of this interface is:

1) Major version 1.0 only supported sysino based interrupt interfaces.

2) Major version 2.0 added cookie based VIRQs, however due to the fact
   that OSs were using the VIRQs without negoatiating major version
   2.0 (Linux and Solaris are both guilty), the VIRQs calls were
   allowed even with major version 1.0

   To complicate things even further, the VIRQ interfaces were only
   actually hooked up in the hypervisor for LDC interrupt sources.
   VIRQ calls on other device types would result in HV_EINVAL errors.

   So effectively, major version 2.0 is unusable.

3) Major version 3.0 was created to signal use of VIRQs and the fact
   that the hypervisor has these calls hooked up for all interrupt
   sources, not just those for LDC devices.

A new boot option is provided should cookie only HV support have issues.
hvirq - this is the version for HV_GRP_INTR. This is related to HV API
versioning.  The code attempts major=3 first by default. The option can
be used to override this default.

I've tested with SPARSE_IRQ on T5-8, M7-4 and T4-X and Jalap?no.

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-05 16:53:40 -07:00
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alpha alpha: io: implement relaxed accessor macros for writes 2014-08-29 11:18:45 -07:00
arc ARC: [mm] Fix compilation breakage 2014-09-03 10:08:50 -07:00
arm A smattering of bug fixes across most architectures. 2014-09-06 16:42:12 -07:00
arm64 A smattering of bug fixes across most architectures. 2014-09-06 16:42:12 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
frv frv: Define cpu_relax_lowlatency() 2014-08-19 09:40:08 -05:00
hexagon flush_icache_range: export symbol to fix build errors 2014-08-29 16:28:17 -07:00
ia64 kexec: remove CONFIG_KEXEC dependency on crypto 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
m68k m68k: Wire up memfd_create 2014-09-01 10:28:00 +02:00
metag Metag architecture changes for v3.17 2014-08-13 18:18:09 -06:00
microblaze microblaze: Fix number of syscalls 2014-09-09 13:14:47 +02:00
mips kexec: remove CONFIG_KEXEC dependency on crypto 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
powerpc A smattering of bug fixes across most architectures. 2014-09-06 16:42:12 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2014-09-08 08:27:00 -07:00
score Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
sh flush_icache_range: export symbol to fix build errors 2014-08-29 16:28:17 -07:00
sparc sparc64: sparse irq 2014-10-05 16:53:40 -07:00
tile flush_icache_range: export symbol to fix build errors 2014-08-29 16:28:17 -07:00
um Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: Fix build error 2014-08-31 17:08:12 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-29 17:22:27 -07:00
xtensa Xtensa improvements for 3.17: 2014-08-31 17:08:42 -07:00
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