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Geoff Levand
540270d82d [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access
To support muti-platform binaries the spu hypervisor accessor
routines must have runtime binding.

I removed the existing statically linked routines in spu.h
and spu_priv1_mmio.c and created new accessor routines in spu_priv1.h
that operate indirectly through an ops struct spu_priv1_ops.
spu_priv1_mmio.c contains the instance of the accessor routines
for running on raw hardware.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-21 15:01:31 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
1d64093f66 [POWERPC] cell: register SPUs as sysdevs
SPUs are registered as system devices, exposing attributes through
sysfs. Since the sysdev includes a kref, we can remove the one in
struct spu (it isn't used at the moment anyway).

Currently only the interrupt source and numa node attributes are added.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-21 15:01:29 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
acf7d76827 [POWERPC] cell: add RAS support
This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability,
Availability and Serviceability" features.

It doesn't yet handle some of the RAS interrupts (the ones described in
iic_is/iic_irr), I'm still working on a proper way to expose these. They
are essentially a cascaded controller by themselves (sic !) though I may
just handle them locally to the iic driver. I need also to sync with
David Erb on the way he hooked in the performance monitor interrupt.

So that's all for 2.6.17 and I'll do more work on that with my rework of
the powerpc interrupt layer that I'm hacking on at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-21 15:01:29 +10:00
Jon Loeliger
6b54340405 [POWERPC] Add 8641 Register space and IRQ definitions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Brown <Jeff.Brown@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Xianghua Xiao <x.xiao@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-21 15:01:28 +10:00
Dave C Boutcher
368a6ba5d1 [POWERPC] check firmware state before suspending
Currently the kernel blindly halts all the processors and calls the
ibm,suspend-me rtas call.  If the firmware is not in the correct
state, we then re-start all the processors and return.  It is much
smarter to first check the firmware state, and only if it is waiting,
call the ibm,suspend-me call.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:27 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
9e6e3c2c79 [POWERPC] Fix HV bit handling on non partitioned machines
On non partitioned machines we currently set the HV bit in kernel space
only. It turns out we are supposed to maintain the HV bit in both user
and kernel space.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
ca1588e71b [POWERPC] node local IOMMU tables
Allocate IOMMU tables local to the relevant node.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
357518fa34 [POWERPC] pcibus_to_node fixes
of_node_to_nid returns -1 if the associativity cannot be found. This
means pcibus_to_cpumask has to be careful not to pass a negative index into
node_to_cpumask.

Since pcibus_to_node could be used a lot, and of_node_to_nid is slow (it
walks a list doing strcmps), lets also cache the node in the
pci_controller struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
227318bbde [POWERPC] Remove stale 64bit on 32bit kernel code
Remove some stale POWER3/POWER4/970 on 32bit kernel support.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
3a2c48cfc9 [POWERPC] 64bit FPSCR support
Forthcoming machines will extend the FPSCR to 64 bits.  We already
had a 64-bit save area for the FPSCR, but we need to use a new form
of the mtfsf instruction.  Fortunately this new form is decoded as
an ordinary mtfsf by existing 64-bit processors.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
Jake Moilanen
204face4fb [POWERPC] MSI abstraction
Instead of trying to make PPC64 MSI fit in a Intel-centric MSI layer, a
simple short-term solution is to hook the pci_{en/dis}able_msi() calls
and make a machdep call.

The rest of the MSI functions are superfluous for what is needed at this
time.  Many of which can have machdep calls added as needed.

Ben and Michael Ellerman are looking into rewrite the MSI layer to be
more generic.  However, in the meantime this works as a interim
solution.

Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 19:31:25 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
bf72aeba2f powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages
Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but
not for cache-inhibited pages.  This patch lets us use 64k hardware
pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel
has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y).  User processes
start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any
non-cacheable mappings.

With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for
the imalloc region.  If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in
the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages.
I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this,
though, and these machines don't have AGP.

When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have
to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately.  We
use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page
was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages.  If hash_page is
trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has
already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE
before inserting the 4k HPTE.  The hash invalidation routines also use
the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a
set of 4k HPTEs to remove.  With those two changes, we can tolerate a
mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get
removed when the address space is torn down.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-15 10:45:18 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
4306443128 powerpc: Remove unused paca->pgdir field
The pgdir field in the paca was a leftover from the dynamic VSIDs
patch, and is not used in the current kernel code.  This removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-12 18:38:21 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
e9370ae15d [PATCH] powerpc: Implement PR_[GS]ET_UNALIGN prctls for powerpc
This gives the ability to control whether alignment exceptions get
fixed up or reported to the process as a SIGBUS, using the existing
PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN prctls.  We do not implement the
option of logging a message on alignment exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:16 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
fab5db97e4 [PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctl
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change
their endian mode via prctl.

This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up
alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for
"PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian.

We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for
little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian
user/kernel ABI.  If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is
restored to what it was when the signal was delivered.

We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and
one for true little-endian.  Most of the classic 32-bit processors
support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature
table.  There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland
in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry.

This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:15 +10:00
Michael Neuling
e78dbc800c [PATCH] powerpc: oprofile support for POWER6
POWER6 moves some of the MMCRA bits and also requires some bits to be
cleared each PMU interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:05 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
8eb6c6e3b9 [PATCH] powerpc: node-aware dma allocations
Make sure dma_alloc_coherent allocates memory from the local node.  This
is important on Cell where we avoid going through the slow cpu
interconnect.

Note:  I could only test this patch on Cell, it should be verified on
some pseries machine by those that have the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:01 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
318facbee0 [PATCH] powerpc: implement pcibus_to_node and pcibus_to_cpumask
On 64bit powerpc we can find out what node a pci bus hangs off, so
implement the topology.h macros that export this information.

For 32bit this seems a little more difficult, but I don't know of 32bit
powerpc NUMA machines either, so let's leave it out for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:21:08 +10:00
John Rose
507279db18 [PATCH] powerpc: reorg RTAS delay code
This patch attempts to handle RTAS "busy" return codes in a more simple
and consistent manner.  Typical callers of RTAS shouldn't have to
manage wait times and delay calls.

This patch also changes the kernel to use msleep() rather than udelay()
when a runtime delay is necessary.  This will avoid CPU soft lockups
for extended delay conditions.

Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:21:06 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
c5cf0e30bf [PATCH] powerpc: Fix buglet with MMU hash management
Our MMU hash management code would not set the "C" bit (changed bit) in
the hardware PTE when updating a RO PTE into a RW PTE. That would cause
the hardware to possibly to a write back to the hash table to set it on
the first store access, which in addition to being a performance issue,
might also hit a bug when running with native hash management (non-HV)
as our code is specifically optimized for the case where no write back
happens.

Thus there is a very small therocial window were a hash PTE can become
corrupted if that HPTE has just been upgraded to read write, a store
access happens on it, and that races with another processor evicting
that same slot. Since eviction (caused by an almost full hash) is
extremely rare, the bug is very unlikely to happen fortunately.

This fixes by allowing the updating of the protection bits in the native
hash handling to also set (but not clear) the "C" bit, and, in order to
also improve performances in the general case, by always setting that
bit on newly inserted hash PTE so that writeback really never happens.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:20:59 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
a5bba930d8 [PATCH] powerpc vdso updates
This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and
moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context
where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation
closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function
allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is
also applied.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:20:57 +10:00
Renzo Davoli
98a90c0279 [PATCH] powerpc: enable PPC_PTRACE_[GS]ETREGS on ppc32
I have tested PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS and PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS on umview.

I do not understand why historically these tags has been defined as
PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS and PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS instead of simply
PTRACE_[GS]ETREGS. The other "originality" is that the address must be
put into the "addr" field instead of the "data" field as stated in the
manual.

Signed-off-by: renzo davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:20:51 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
c029cc66cb Merge branch 'merge' 2006-06-01 19:05:23 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
6bf08cb246 [PATCH] Add CMSPAR to termbits.h for powerpc and alpha
Some driver wants to use CMSPAR, but it was missing on alpha and powerpc.
This adds it, with the same value as every other architecture uses.

(akpm: fixes the build of an upcoming gregkh USB patch)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-26 11:55:46 -07:00
Jon Mason
0a9cb46a73 [PATCH] remove powerpc bitops in favor of existing generic bitops
There already exists a big endian safe bitops implementation in
lib/find_next_bit.c.  The code in it is 90%+ common with the powerpc
specific version, so the powerpc version is redundant.  This patch
makes the necessary changes to use the generic bitops in powerpc, and
removes the powerpc specific version.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-24 16:08:58 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
403fac4f83 [PATCH] powerpc: remove LogicalSlot from pci_dn
As we now store enough information in the device_node.

Also the Flags field was not used either, do remove that.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-24 16:08:56 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
b025279316 [PATCH] powerpc: remove Irq from pci_dn
As we now store enough information in the device_node to allocate the
irq number in pcibios_final_fixup.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-24 16:08:56 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
96ff6afaf1 [PATCH] powerpc: remove iSeries_Global_Device_List
We can now scan the list of device nodes instead.  This also allows us
to remove the Device_list member of struct pci_dn.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-24 16:08:56 +10:00
David Woodhouse
0f04108237 [PATCH] powerpc: wire up sys_[gs]et_robust_list
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-23 10:35:32 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr
d4ad66faec [PATCH] powerpc: Add of_parse_dma_window()
Add a function for generic parsing of dma-window properties (ie,
ibm,dma-window and ibm,my-dma-window) of pci and virtual device nodes.

This function will also be used by cell.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:21 +10:00
jimix@watson.ibm.com
8ae5b2801a [PATCH] powerpc: udbg_printf() formatting attribute
This patch allows the compiler to catch any printf-like mismatches for
udbg_printf().  After some brute force building I've only found issues
with my own code and lparcfg.c It could break some developers, but
IMHO that would be goodness.

Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:19 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
35dd54326e [PATCH] powerpc: Move crashkernel= handling into the kernel.
This was missing a quilt ref.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:18 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
473104134b [PATCH] powerpc: Kdump header cleanup
We need to know the base address of the kdump kernel even when we're not a
kdump kernel, so add a #define for it. Move the logic that sets the kdump
kernelbase into kdump.h instead of page.h.

Rename kdump_setup() to setup_kdump_trampoline() to make it clearer what it's
doing, and add an empty definition for the !CRASH_DUMP case to avoid a

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:16 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
2babf5c2ec [PATCH] powerpc: Unify mem= handling
We currently do mem= handling in three seperate places. And as benh pointed out
I wrote two of them. Now that we parse command line parameters earlier we can
clean this mess up.

Moving the parsing out of prom_init means the device tree might be allocated
above the memory limit. If that happens we'd have to move it. As it happens
we already have logic to do that for kdump, so just genericise it.

This also means we might have reserved regions above the memory limit, if we
do the bootmem allocator will blow up, so we have to modify
lmb_enforce_memory_limit() to truncate the reserves as well.

Tested on P5 LPAR, iSeries, F50, 44p. Tested moving device tree on P5 and
44p and F50.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 15:02:15 +10:00
Michael Neuling
d6b89a196d [PATCH] powerpc: whitespace cleanup in reg.h
In reg.h we mostly have #define<space> but there are a few #define<tab>
around.  Clean these up so we use space exclusively.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-19 14:35:25 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
f18fc729cd Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-05-05 15:45:48 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
6bfd93c32a powerpc: Fix incorrect might_sleep in __get_user/__put_user on kernel addresses
We have a case where __get_user and __put_user can validly be used
on kernel addresses in interrupt context - namely, the alignment
exception handler, as our get/put_unaligned just do a single access
and rely on the alignment exception handler to fix things up in the
rare cases where the cpu can't handle it in hardware.  Thus we can
get alignment exceptions in the network stack at interrupt level.
The alignment exception handler does a __get_user to read the
instruction and blows up in might_sleep().

Since a __get_user on a kernel address won't actually ever sleep,
this makes the might_sleep conditional on the address being less
than PAGE_OFFSET.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-03 23:06:46 +10:00
Jeremy Kerr
8261aa6009 [PATCH] powerpc: cell: Add numa id to struct spu
Add an nid member to the spu structure, and store the numa id of the spu there
on creation.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr
953039c8df [PATCH] powerpc: Allow devices to register with numa topology
Change of_node_to_nid() to traverse the device tree, looking for a numa id.
Cell uses this to assign ids to SPUs, which are children of the CPU node.
Existing users of of_node_to_nid() are altered to use of_node_to_nid_single(),
which doesn't do the traversal.

Export an attach_sysdev_to_node() function, allowing system devices (eg.
SPUs) to link themselves into the numa topology in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Olof Johansson
bc97ce951c [PATCH] powerpc: kill union tce_entry
It's been long overdue to kill the union tce_entry in the pSeries/iSeries
TCE code, especially since I asked the Summit guys to do it on the code
they copied from us.

Also, while I was at it, I cleaned up some whitespace.

Built and booted on pSeries, built on iSeries.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29 18:07:54 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
c7f0e8cb56 [PATCH] powerpc: merge the rest of the vio code
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29 18:02:02 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
dd721ffd95 [PATCH] powerpc: use a common vio_match_device routine
This requires the compatible properties having vaules that are empty
strings instead of just being empty properties.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29 18:02:01 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
e10fa77368 [PATCH] powerpc: use the device tree for the iSeries vio bus probe
As an added bonus, since every vio_dev now has a device_node
associated with it, hotplug now works.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29 18:02:00 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
29f147d746 Merge branch 'merge' 2006-04-29 16:15:57 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
03054d51a7 [PATCH] powerpc: Add cputable entry for POWER6
Add a cputable entry for the POWER6 processor.

The SIHV and SIPR bits in the mmcra have moved in POWER6, so disable
support for that until oprofile is fixed.

Also tell firmware that we know about POWER6.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29 10:56:58 +10:00
Andreas Schwab
2833c28aa0 [PATCH] powerpc: Wire up *at syscalls
Wire up *at syscalls.

This patch has been tested on ppc64 (using glibc's testsuite, both 32bit
and 64bit), and compile-tested for ppc32 (I have currently no ppc32 system
available, but I expect no problems).

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28 21:04:59 +10:00
David Woodhouse
1269277a5e [PATCH] powerpc: Use check_legacy_ioport() on ppc32 too.
Some people report that we die on some Macs when we are expecting to
catch machine checks after poking at some random I/O address. I'd seen
it happen on my dual G4 with serial ports until we fixed those to use
OF, but now other users are reporting it with i8042.

This expands the use of check_legacy_ioport() to avoid that situation
even on 32-bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28 21:04:55 +10:00
David Gibson
f10a04c034 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepages
At present, ARCH=powerpc kernels can waste considerable space in
pagetables when making large hugepage mappings.  Hugepage PTEs go in
PMD pages, but each PMD page maps 256M and so contains only 16
hugepage PTEs (128 bytes of data), but takes up a 1024 byte
allocation.  With CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES enabled (64k base page size),
the situation is worse.  Now hugepage PTEs are at the PTE page level
(also mapping 256M), so we store 16 hugepage PTEs in a 64k allocation.

The PowerPC MMU already means that any 256M region is either all
hugepage, or all normal pages.  Thus, with some care, we can use a
different allocation for the hugepage PTE tables and only allocate the
128 bytes necessary.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28 15:02:51 +10:00
Jens Axboe
912d35f867 [PATCH] Add support for the sys_vmsplice syscall
sys_splice() moves data to/from pipes with a file input/output. sys_vmsplice()
moves data to a pipe, with the input being a user address range instead.

This uses an approach suggested by Linus, where we can hold partial ranges
inside the pages[] map. Hopefully this will be useful for network
receive support as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-26 10:59:21 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
916a3d5729 Merge branch 'merge' 2006-04-23 10:55:56 +10:00