The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in
low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu
global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer.
We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers
as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some
of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc..
and the current choice isn't always the best.
This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the
usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement
and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to
what those are used for on each processor family.
The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM
or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all
the SPRGs.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The following commit:
commit 64b3d0e812
Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu Dec 18 19:13:51 2008 +0000
powerpc/mm: Rework usage of _PAGE_COHERENT/NO_CACHE/GUARDED
broke setting of the _PAGE_COHERENT bit in the PPC HW PTE. Since we now
actually set _PAGE_COHERENT in the Linux PTE we shouldn't be clearing it
out before we propogate it to the PPC HW PTE.
Reported-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Rework to MMU code dropped a much missed 'blr' instruction.
Brown-Paper-Bag-Worn-By: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Currently, we never set _PAGE_COHERENT in the PTEs, we just OR it in
in the hash code based on some CPU feature bit. We also manipulate
_PAGE_NO_CACHE and _PAGE_GUARDED by hand in all sorts of places.
This changes the logic so that instead, the PTE now contains
_PAGE_COHERENT for all normal RAM pages thay have I = 0 on platforms
that need it. The hash code clears it if the feature bit is not set.
It also adds some clean accessors to setup various valid combinations
of access flags and change various bits of code to use them instead.
This should help having the PTE actually containing the bit
combinations that we really want.
I also removed _PAGE_GUARDED from _PAGE_BASE on 44x and instead
set it explicitely from the TLB miss. I will ultimately remove it
completely as it appears that it might not be needed after all
but in the meantime, having it in the TLB miss makes things a
lot easier.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Currently, the various forms of low level TLB invalidations are all
implemented in misc_32.S for 32-bit processors, in a fairly scary
mess of #ifdef's and with interesting duplication such as a whole
bunch of code for FSL _tlbie and _tlbia which are no longer used.
This moves things around such that _tlbie is now defined in
hash_low_32.S and is only used by the 32-bit hash code, and all
nohash CPUs use the various _tlbil_* forms that are now moved to
a new file, tlb_nohash_low.S.
I moved all the definitions for that stuff out of
include/asm/tlbflush.h as they are really internal mm stuff, into
mm/mmu_decl.h
The code should have no functional changes. I kept some variants
inline for trivial forms on things like 40x and 8xx.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Refactor the RCU based pte free code that was used on ppc64 to be used
on all powerpc.
Additionally refactor pte_free() & pte_free_kernel() into common code
between ppc32 & ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This rearranges a bit of code, and adds support for
36-bit physical addressing for configs that use a
hashed page table. The 36b physical support is not
enabled by default on any config - it must be
explicitly enabled via the config system.
This patch *only* expands the page table code to accomodate
large physical addresses on 32-bit systems and enables the
PHYS_64BIT config option for 86xx. It does *not*
allow you to boot a board with more than about 3.5GB of
RAM - for that, SWIOTLB support is also required (and
coming soon).
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
It's the size of the hardware PTE; make that clear in the name.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This removes a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a
comment.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Use (31-THREAD_SHIFT) to get to thread_info from stack pointer. This makes
the code a bit easier to read and more robust if we ever change THREAD_SHIFT.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
hash_page_sync() takes and releases the low level mmu hash
lock in order to sync with other processors disposing of page
tables. Because that lock can be needed to service hash misses
triggered by interrupt handlers, taking it must be done with
interrupts off. However, hash_page_sync() appears to be called
with interrupts enabled, thus causing occasional deadlocks.
We fix it by making sure hash_page_sync() masks interrupts while
holding the lock.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We get the following warnings in various ARCH=powerpc builds:
WARNING: "ee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "fee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "htab_hash_searches" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "next_slot" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "mmu_hash_lock" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "primary_pteg_full" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "global_dbcr0" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol
Switch to moving local symbols (except mmu_hash_lock which is global) and
space directive instead.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
On hash table based 32 bits powerpc's, the hash management code runs with
a big spinlock. It's thus important that it never causes itself a hash
fault. That code is generally safe (it does memory accesses in real mode
among other things) with the exception of the actual access to the code
itself. That is, the kernel text needs to be accessible without taking
a hash miss exceptions.
This is currently guaranteed by having a BAT register mapping part of the
linear mapping permanently, which includes the kernel text. But this is
not true if using the "nobats" kernel command line option (which can be
useful for debugging) and will not be true when using DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
implemented in a subsequent patch.
This patch fixes this by pre-faulting in the hash table pages that hit
the kernel text, and making sure we never evict such a page under hash
pressure.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenchmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_low_32.S | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 3 ---
arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h | 4 ++++
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c | 11 +++++++----
4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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>
This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree. I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Now that the register names and bit definitions are all in reg.h,
use that instead of processor.h in assembly code in a few places.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This doesn't change any code, just renames things so we consistently
have foo_32.c and foo_64.c where we have separate 32- and 64-bit
versions.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
