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<title>Merge commit 'kumar/merge' into merge</title>
<updated>2010-05-13T01:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
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<published>2010-05-13T01:42:40+00:00</published>
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<title>powerpc/perf_event: Fix oops due to perf_event_do_pending call</title>
<updated>2010-05-12T04:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-13T20:46:04+00:00</published>
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Anton Blanchard found that large POWER systems would occasionally
crash in the exception exit path when profiling with perf_events.
The symptom was that an interrupt would occur late in the exit path
when the MSR[RI] (recoverable interrupt) bit was clear.  Interrupts
should be hard-disabled at this point but they were enabled.  Because
the interrupt was not recoverable the system panicked.

The reason is that the exception exit path was calling
perf_event_do_pending after hard-disabling interrupts, and
perf_event_do_pending will re-enable interrupts.

The simplest and cleanest fix for this is to use the same mechanism
that 32-bit powerpc does, namely to cause a self-IPI by setting the
decrementer to 1.  This means we can remove the tests in the exception
exit path and raw_local_irq_restore.

This also makes sure that the call to perf_event_do_pending from
timer_interrupt() happens within irq_enter/irq_exit.  (Note that
calling perf_event_do_pending from timer_interrupt does not mean that
there is a possible 1/HZ latency; setting the decrementer to 1 ensures
that the timer interrupt will happen immediately, i.e. within one
timebase tick, which is a few nanoseconds or 10s of nanoseconds.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Anton Blanchard found that large POWER systems would occasionally
crash in the exception exit path when profiling with perf_events.
The symptom was that an interrupt would occur late in the exit path
when the MSR[RI] (recoverable interrupt) bit was clear.  Interrupts
should be hard-disabled at this point but they were enabled.  Because
the interrupt was not recoverable the system panicked.

The reason is that the exception exit path was calling
perf_event_do_pending after hard-disabling interrupts, and
perf_event_do_pending will re-enable interrupts.

The simplest and cleanest fix for this is to use the same mechanism
that 32-bit powerpc does, namely to cause a self-IPI by setting the
decrementer to 1.  This means we can remove the tests in the exception
exit path and raw_local_irq_restore.

This also makes sure that the call to perf_event_do_pending from
timer_interrupt() happens within irq_enter/irq_exit.  (Note that
calling perf_event_do_pending from timer_interrupt does not mean that
there is a possible 1/HZ latency; setting the decrementer to 1 ensures
that the timer interrupt will happen immediately, i.e. within one
timebase tick, which is a few nanoseconds or 10s of nanoseconds.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/swiotlb: Fix off by one in determining boundary of which ops to use</title>
<updated>2010-05-04T06:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-03T12:36:22+00:00</published>
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When we compare the devices DMA mask to the amount of memory we need to
make sure we treat the DMA mask as an address boundary.  For example if
the DMA_MASK(32) and we have 4G of memory we'd incorrectly set the dma
ops to swiotlb.  We need to add one to the dma mask when we convert it.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When we compare the devices DMA mask to the amount of memory we need to
make sure we treat the DMA mask as an address boundary.  For example if
the DMA_MASK(32) and we have 4G of memory we'd incorrectly set the dma
ops to swiotlb.  We need to add one to the dma mask when we convert it.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/numa: Add form 1 NUMA affinity</title>
<updated>2010-04-28T06:22:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-07T15:33:44+00:00</published>
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Firmware changed the way it represents memory and cpu affinity on POWER7.
Unfortunately the old method now caps the topology to work around issues
with legacy operating systems. For Linux to get the correct topology we
need to use the new form 1 affinity information.

We set the form 1 field in the client architecture, and if we see "1" in the
ibm,associativity-form property firmware supports form 1 affinity and
we should look at the first field in the ibm,associativity-reference-points
array. If not we use the second field as we always have.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Firmware changed the way it represents memory and cpu affinity on POWER7.
Unfortunately the old method now caps the topology to work around issues
with legacy operating systems. For Linux to get the correct topology we
need to use the new form 1 affinity information.

We set the form 1 field in the client architecture, and if we see "1" in the
ibm,associativity-form property firmware supports form 1 affinity and
we should look at the first field in the ibm,associativity-reference-points
array. If not we use the second field as we always have.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh</title>
<updated>2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00</published>
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<title>perf: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version</title>
<updated>2010-04-03T10:42:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-03T10:22:05+00:00</published>
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Now that software events use perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() too, we
need the powerpc version to be always built.

Fixes the following build error:

	(.text+0x3210): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0x3324): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0x33bc): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0x33ec): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0xd4a0): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o:(.text+0xd528): more undefined references to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs' follow
	make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
	make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Now that software events use perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() too, we
need the powerpc version to be always built.

Fixes the following build error:

	(.text+0x3210): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0x3324): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0x33bc): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0x33ec): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	(.text+0xd4a0): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs'
	arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o:(.text+0xd528): more undefined references to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs' follow
	make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
	make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-03-26T22:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-26T22:09:33+00:00</published>
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
  perf top: Add missing initialization to zero
  perf probe: Use original address instead of CU-based address
  perf probe: Fix offset to allow signed value
  perf top: Improve the autosizing of column lenghts
  perf probe: Fix need_dwarf flag if lazy matching is used
  perf probe: Fix probe_point buffer overrun
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
  perf top: Add missing initialization to zero
  perf probe: Use original address instead of CU-based address
  perf probe: Fix offset to allow signed value
  perf top: Improve the autosizing of column lenghts
  perf probe: Fix need_dwarf flag if lazy matching is used
  perf probe: Fix probe_point buffer overrun
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2010-03-19T20:42:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-19T20:42:43+00:00</published>
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Remove IOMMU_VMERGE config option
  powerpc: Fix swiotlb to respect the boot option
  powerpc: Do not call prink when CONFIG_PRINTK is not defined
  powerpc: Use correct ccr bit for syscall error status
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Get coherent bit from PTE
  powerpc/85xx: Make sure lwarx hint isn't set on ppc32
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Remove IOMMU_VMERGE config option
  powerpc: Fix swiotlb to respect the boot option
  powerpc: Do not call prink when CONFIG_PRINTK is not defined
  powerpc: Use correct ccr bit for syscall error status
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Get coherent bit from PTE
  powerpc/85xx: Make sure lwarx hint isn't set on ppc32
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove IOMMU_VMERGE config option</title>
<updated>2010-03-19T05:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-02T14:25:38+00:00</published>
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The description says:

 Cause IO segments sent to a device for DMA to be merged virtually
 by the IOMMU when they happen to have been allocated contiguously.
 This doesn't add pressure to the IOMMU allocator. However, some
 drivers don't support getting large merged segments coming back
 from *_map_sg().

 Most drivers don't have this problem; it is safe to say Y here.

It's out of date. Long ago, drivers didn't have a way to tell IOMMUs
about their segment length limit (that is, the maximum segment length
that they can handle). So IOMMUs merged as many segments as possible
and gave too large segments to drivers.

dma_get_max_seg_size() was introduced to solve the above
problem. Device drives can use the API to tell IOMMU about the maximum
segment length that they can handle. In addition, the default limit
(64K) should be safe for everyone.

So this config option seems to be unnecessary.

Note that this config option just enables users to disable the virtual
merging by default. Users can still disable the virtual merging by the
boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The description says:

 Cause IO segments sent to a device for DMA to be merged virtually
 by the IOMMU when they happen to have been allocated contiguously.
 This doesn't add pressure to the IOMMU allocator. However, some
 drivers don't support getting large merged segments coming back
 from *_map_sg().

 Most drivers don't have this problem; it is safe to say Y here.

It's out of date. Long ago, drivers didn't have a way to tell IOMMUs
about their segment length limit (that is, the maximum segment length
that they can handle). So IOMMUs merged as many segments as possible
and gave too large segments to drivers.

dma_get_max_seg_size() was introduced to solve the above
problem. Device drives can use the API to tell IOMMU about the maximum
segment length that they can handle. In addition, the default limit
(64K) should be safe for everyone.

So this config option seems to be unnecessary.

Note that this config option just enables users to disable the virtual
merging by default. Users can still disable the virtual merging by the
boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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