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<title>litmus-rt.git/Documentation/powerpc, branch test</title>
<subtitle>The LITMUS^RT kernel.</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Revert "powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions"</title>
<updated>2015-04-30T05:24:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-30T05:13:14+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.

Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.

Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.

Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.

So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.

NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.

Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.

Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.

Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.

Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.

So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.

NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.

Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-sriov' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc into next</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T23:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T23:29:23+00:00</published>
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Merge Richard's work to support SR-IOV on PowerNV. All generic PCI
patches acked by Bjorn.

Some minor conflicts with Daniel's pci_controller_ops work.

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
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Merge Richard's work to support SR-IOV on PowerNV. All generic PCI
patches acked by Bjorn.

Some minor conflicts with Daniel's pci_controller_ops work.

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Correct minor documentation typos</title>
<updated>2015-04-11T10:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-10T04:16:50+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions</title>
<updated>2015-04-11T10:49:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-10T04:16:47+00:00</published>
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This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality because
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c
indicate the cost of a system call increases by about 0.5%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-By: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality because
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c
indicate the cost of a system call increases by about 0.5%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-By: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pci: Add PCI resource alignment documentation</title>
<updated>2015-03-31T02:02:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-25T08:24:01+00:00</published>
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In order to enable SRIOV on PowerNV platform, the PF's IOV BAR needs to be
adjusted:

    1. size expanded
    2. aligned to M64BT size

This patch documents this change on the reason and how.

[bhelgaas: reformat, clarify, expand]
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
In order to enable SRIOV on PowerNV platform, the PF's IOV BAR needs to be
adjusted:

    1. size expanded
    2. aligned to M64BT size

This patch documents this change on the reason and how.

[bhelgaas: reformat, clarify, expand]
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cxl: Add documentation for userspace APIs</title>
<updated>2014-10-08T09:16:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Munsie</name>
<email>imunsie@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-08T08:55:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=a9282d01cf357379ce29103cec5e7651a53c634d'/>
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<content type='text'>
This documentation gives an overview of the hardware architecture, userspace
APIs via /dev/cxl/afuM.N and the syfs files. It also adds a MAINTAINERS file
entry for cxl.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie &lt;imunsie@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This documentation gives an overview of the hardware architecture, userspace
APIs via /dev/cxl/afuM.N and the syfs files. It also adds a MAINTAINERS file
entry for cxl.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie &lt;imunsie@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Remove 440 support</title>
<updated>2014-07-28T13:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>agraf@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-25T08:38:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=b2677b8dd8de0dc1496ede4da09b9dfd59f15cea'/>
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The 440 target hasn't been properly functioning for a few releases and
before I was the only one who fixes a very serious bug that indicates to
me that nobody used it before either.

Furthermore KVM on 440 is slow to the extent of unusable.

We don't have to carry along completely unused code. Remove 440 and give
us one less thing to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<pre>
The 440 target hasn't been properly functioning for a few releases and
before I was the only one who fixes a very serious bug that indicates to
me that nobody used it before either.

Furthermore KVM on 440 is slow to the extent of unusable.

We don't have to carry along completely unused code. Remove 440 and give
us one less thing to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T01:54:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T01:54:22+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window.  It got
  a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
  because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
  ack in it.  Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
  probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.

  There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
  still want to sort through and test.

  The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
  with our new v2 ABI.  We previously supported v2 userspace but the
  kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack.  This is now sorted mostly
  thanks to Anton and Rusty.

  We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
  64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper.  This was made harder by the fact that
  traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
  toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
  but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it.  This
  meant more churn that just endian fixes.

  This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
  LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
  right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
  right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.

  There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
  *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).

  Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
  P8 by Michael.  This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
  4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
  (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).

  And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."

[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
  Google knows.  ]

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
  selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
  powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
  powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
  powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
  powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
  powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
  powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
  powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
  powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
  powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
  powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
  powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
  powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
  powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
  powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
  powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
  arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window.  It got
  a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part
  because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer
  ack in it.  Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll
  probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack.

  There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I
  still want to sort through and test.

  The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel
  with our new v2 ABI.  We previously supported v2 userspace but the
  kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack.  This is now sorted mostly
  thanks to Anton and Rusty.

  We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for
  64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper.  This was made harder by the fact that
  traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE
  toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there
  but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it.  This
  meant more churn that just endian fixes.

  This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in
  LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the
  right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the
  right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes.

  There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we
  *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!).

  Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on
  P8 by Michael.  This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of
  4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM
  (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread).

  And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..."

[ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer.
  Google knows.  ]

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits)
  powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code
  selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit
  powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
  powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call
  powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC()
  powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB
  powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes
  powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code
  powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled
  powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB
  powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL
  powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports
  powerpc: Add cpu family documentation
  powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings
  powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host
  powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface
  powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting
  powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro
  arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add cpu family documentation</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T03:20:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-26T11:44:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=91a6151be2a936e87ce422fcd9262377ad9ed91c'/>
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This patch adds some documentation on the different cpu families
supported by arch/powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This patch adds some documentation on the different cpu families
supported by arch/powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: spelling error changes</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T13:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Garcia</name>
<email>carlos@cgarcia.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-05T02:31:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=c98be0c96db00e9b6b02d31e0fa7590c54cdaaac'/>
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<content type='text'>
Fixed multiple spelling errors.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia &lt;carlos@cgarcia.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Fixed multiple spelling errors.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia &lt;carlos@cgarcia.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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