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  1. 05 Nov, 2008 1 commit
  3. 15 Sep, 2008 2 commits
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc: Make the 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable · 549e8152
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      
This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 64-bit by making the kernel as
a position-independent executable (PIE) when it is set.  This involves
processing the dynamic relocations in the image in the early stages of
booting, even if the kernel is being run at the address it is linked at,
since the linker does not necessarily fill in words in the image for
which there are dynamic relocations.  (In fact the linker does fill in
such words for 64-bit executables, though not for 32-bit executables,
so in principle we could avoid calling relocate() entirely when we're
running a 64-bit kernel at the linked address.)

The dynamic relocations are processed by a new function relocate(addr),
where the addr parameter is the virtual address where the image will be
run.  In fact we call it twice; once before calling prom_init, and again
when starting the main kernel.  This means that reloc_offset() returns
0 in prom_init (since it has been relocated to the address it is running
at), which necessitated a few adjustments.

This also changes __va and __pa to use an equivalent definition that is
simpler.  With the relocatable kernel, PAGE_OFFSET and MEMORY_START are
constants (for 64-bit) whereas PHYSICAL_START is a variable (and
KERNELBASE ideally should be too, but isn't yet).

With this, relocatable kernels still copy themselves down to physical
address 0 and run there.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc: Make it possible to move the interrupt handlers away from the kernel · 1f6a93e4
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      
This changes the way that the exception prologs transfer control to
the handlers in 64-bit kernels with the aim of making it possible to
have the prologs separate from the main body of the kernel.  Now,
instead of computing the address of the handler by taking the top
32 bits of the paca address (to get the 0xc0000000........ part) and
ORing in something in the bottom 16 bits, we get the base address of
the kernel by doing a load from the paca and add an offset.

This also replaces an mfmsr and an ori to compute the MSR value for
the handler with a load from the paca.  That makes it unnecessary to
have a separate version of EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES that forces 64-bit
mode.

We can no longer use a direct branches in the exception prolog code,
which means that the SLB miss handlers can't branch directly to
.slb_miss_realmode any more.  Instead we have to compute the address
and do an indirect branch.  This is conditional on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE;
for non-relocatable kernels we use a direct branch as before.  (A later
change will allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE to be set on 64-bit powerpc.)

Since the secondary CPUs on pSeries start execution in the first 0x100
bytes of real memory and then have to get to wherever the kernel is,
we can't use a direct branch to get there.  Instead this changes
__secondary_hold_spinloop from a flag to a function pointer.  When it
is set to a non-NULL value, the secondary CPUs jump to the function
pointed to by that value.

Finally this eliminates one code difference between 32-bit and 64-bit
by making __secondary_hold be the text address of the secondary CPU
spinloop rather than a function descriptor for it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Allow non zero boot cpuids · 4df20460
      Anton Blanchard authored 
      
We currently have a hack to flip the boot cpu and its secondary thread
to logical cpuid 0 and 1. This means the logical - physical mapping will
differ depending on which cpu is boot cpu. This is most apparent on
kexec, where we might kexec on any cpu and therefore change the mapping
from boot to boot.

The patch below does a first pass early on to work out the logical cpuid
of the boot thread. We then fix up some paca structures to match.

Ive also removed the boot_cpuid_phys variable for ppc64, to be
consistent we use get_hard_smp_processor_id(boot_cpuid) everywhere.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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  19. 13 Jan, 2006 1 commit
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Remove lppaca structure from the PACA · 3356bb9f
      David Gibson authored 
      
At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries
hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level
per-cpu structure.  This doesn't have to be so, the patch below
removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures.

This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel
memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and
hypervisor portions of every PACA.  On the other hand it means an
extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca.

The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca
address to a local variable for no particular reason.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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  21. 09 Jan, 2006 2 commits
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Remove some unneeded fields from the paca · 404849bb
      David Gibson authored 
      
This patch removes several unnecessary fields from the paca:

- next_jiffy_update_tb was simply unused.  Remove trivially.

- The exdsi exception save area was not used.  There were plans to use
  it, but they never seem to have gone anywhere.  If they ever do, we
  can put it back.  Remove from the paca, and from asm-offsets.c

- The default_decr field was used from asm, but was only ever assigned
  the value of tb_ticks_per_jiffy.  Just access tb_ticks_per_jiffy from
  asm directly instead.

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR and iSeries RS64.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Remove ItLpRegSave area from the paca · 1888e7b5
      David Gibson authored 
      
On iSeries, the paca contains, amongst other things an ItLpRegSave
structure used by the hypervisor to save registers.  The hypervisor
locates this area through a pointer at the beginning of the paca, so
the structure itself can be located elsewhere.  This patch moves the
reg_save area out into its own array.  This reduces the amount of
iSeries specific gunk which is visible to general powerpc code via
paca.h

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR and iSeries RS64.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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  23. 11 Nov, 2005 1 commit
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel · a7f290da
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored 
      
This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32
bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds
some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with
support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same
clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency.

Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits
returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever
add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't
have to change.

I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and
ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a
64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was
tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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  25. 10 Nov, 2005 2 commits
  27. 07 Nov, 2005 1 commit
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pages · 3c726f8d
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored 
      
Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
base page size to 64K.  The resulting kernel still boots on any
hardware.  On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.

Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
information from the newer hypervisors.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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