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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge</title>
<updated>2006-04-18T17:34:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2006-04-18T17:34:24+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
  powerpc: Use correct sequence for putting CPU into nap mode
  [PATCH] spufs: fix context-switch decrementer code
  [PATCH] powerpc32: Set cpu explicitly in kernel compiles
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: bugfix: balance calls to pci_device_put
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix machine detection in prom_init.c
  [PATCH] ppc32: Fix string comparing in platform_notify_map
  [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid __initcall warnings
  [PATCH] powerpc: Ensure runlatch is off in the idle loop
  powerpc: Fix CHRP booting - needs a define_machine call
  powerpc: iSeries has only 256 IRQs
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
  powerpc: Use correct sequence for putting CPU into nap mode
  [PATCH] spufs: fix context-switch decrementer code
  [PATCH] powerpc32: Set cpu explicitly in kernel compiles
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: bugfix: balance calls to pci_device_put
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix machine detection in prom_init.c
  [PATCH] ppc32: Fix string comparing in platform_notify_map
  [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid __initcall warnings
  [PATCH] powerpc: Ensure runlatch is off in the idle loop
  powerpc: Fix CHRP booting - needs a define_machine call
  powerpc: iSeries has only 256 IRQs
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use correct sequence for putting CPU into nap mode</title>
<updated>2006-04-18T11:49:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-18T11:49:11+00:00</published>
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We weren't using the recommended sequence for putting the CPU into
nap mode.  When I changed the idle loop, for some reason 7447A cpus
started hanging when we put them into nap mode.  Changing to the
recommended sequence fixes that.

The complexity here is that the recommended sequence is a loop that
keeps putting the cpu back into nap mode.  Clearly we need some way
to break out of the loop when an interrupt (external interrupt,
decrementer, performance monitor) occurs.  Here we use a bit in
the thread_info struct to indicate that we need this, and the exception
entry code notices this and arranges for the exception to return
to the value in the link register, thus breaking out of the loop.
We use a new `local_flags' field in the thread_info which we can
alter without needing to use an atomic update sequence.

The PPC970 has the same recommended sequence, so we do the same thing
there too.

This also fixes a bug in the kernel stack overflow handling code on
32-bit, since it was causing a value that we needed in a register to
get trashed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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We weren't using the recommended sequence for putting the CPU into
nap mode.  When I changed the idle loop, for some reason 7447A cpus
started hanging when we put them into nap mode.  Changing to the
recommended sequence fixes that.

The complexity here is that the recommended sequence is a loop that
keeps putting the cpu back into nap mode.  Clearly we need some way
to break out of the loop when an interrupt (external interrupt,
decrementer, performance monitor) occurs.  Here we use a bit in
the thread_info struct to indicate that we need this, and the exception
entry code notices this and arranges for the exception to return
to the value in the link register, thus breaking out of the loop.
We use a new `local_flags' field in the thread_info which we can
alter without needing to use an atomic update sequence.

The PPC970 has the same recommended sequence, so we do the same thing
there too.

This also fixes a bug in the kernel stack overflow handling code on
32-bit, since it was causing a value that we needed in a register to
get trashed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] spufs: fix context-switch decrementer code</title>
<updated>2006-04-13T16:38:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordi Caubet</name>
<email>jordi_caubet@es.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-12T15:44:27+00:00</published>
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We found that when the 'decrementer' is saved, the PPE saves the current
time 'csa-&gt;suspend_time'. When restoring the 'decrementer', (Step 34)
decrementer seems to be adjusted with the number of cycles th= at a spu
thread has not been running.

In that code it is missing a substract ('-') because 'delta_time' is
assigned a not substracted(see bellow).

Acked-by: Mark Nutter &lt;mnutter@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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We found that when the 'decrementer' is saved, the PPE saves the current
time 'csa-&gt;suspend_time'. When restoring the 'decrementer', (Step 34)
decrementer seems to be adjusted with the number of cycles th= at a spu
thread has not been running.

In that code it is missing a substract ('-') because 'delta_time' is
assigned a not substracted(see bellow).

Acked-by: Mark Nutter &lt;mnutter@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc32: Set cpu explicitly in kernel compiles</title>
<updated>2006-04-13T16:38:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-11T18:42:08+00:00</published>
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Compile the 32bit kernel with -mcpu=powerpc. This reduces the imagesize
when a compiler is used that defaults to -mtune=power4. It inserts lots
of nops to please the 64bit cpu instruction scheduling. But all these nops
are not needed for 32bit kernels.

Example with SLES10 gcc 4.1.0 and arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig:

                    vmlinux  vmlinux.strip  vmlinux.gz
 -O2                4980515     4187528      1846829
 -Os                4618801     3827084      1673333
 -O2 -mcpu=powerpc  4738851     3945868      1816253
 -Os -mcpu=powerpc  4532785     3741068      1664688

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Compile the 32bit kernel with -mcpu=powerpc. This reduces the imagesize
when a compiler is used that defaults to -mtune=power4. It inserts lots
of nops to please the 64bit cpu instruction scheduling. But all these nops
are not needed for 32bit kernels.

Example with SLES10 gcc 4.1.0 and arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig:

                    vmlinux  vmlinux.strip  vmlinux.gz
 -O2                4980515     4187528      1846829
 -Os                4618801     3827084      1673333
 -O2 -mcpu=powerpc  4738851     3945868      1816253
 -Os -mcpu=powerpc  4532785     3741068      1664688

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: bugfix: balance calls to pci_device_put</title>
<updated>2006-04-13T16:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linas Vepstas</name>
<email>linas@austin.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-06T20:41:41+00:00</published>
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Repeated calls to eeh_remove_device() can result in multiple
(and thus unbalanced) calls to pci_dev_put(). Make sure the
pci_device_put() is called only once (since there was only
one call to the matching pci_device_get()).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas &lt;linas@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Repeated calls to eeh_remove_device() can result in multiple
(and thus unbalanced) calls to pci_dev_put(). Make sure the
pci_device_put() is called only once (since there was only
one call to the matching pci_device_get()).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas &lt;linas@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Fix machine detection in prom_init.c</title>
<updated>2006-04-13T16:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-07T03:56:21+00:00</published>
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In e8222502ee6157e2713da9e0792c21f4ad458d50 the detection of machine types
in prom_init broke for some machines. We should be checking /device_type
instead of /model. This should make Power3 and Power4 boot again. Haven't
been able to test this.  We also need to relocate before comparing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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In e8222502ee6157e2713da9e0792c21f4ad458d50 the detection of machine types
in prom_init broke for some machines. We should be checking /device_type
instead of /model. This should make Power3 and Power4 boot again. Haven't
been able to test this.  We also need to relocate before comparing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid __initcall warnings</title>
<updated>2006-04-13T16:27:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-02T10:18:32+00:00</published>
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Fix __initcall return in proc_rtas_init and rtas_init.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Fix __initcall return in proc_rtas_init and rtas_init.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] powerpc: Ensure runlatch is off in the idle loop</title>
<updated>2006-04-13T16:27:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-02T09:54:09+00:00</published>
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Since external and decrementer interrupts set the runlatch on, we need
to ensure its set off again in the idle loop. At the moment we dont turn
it off in the inner loop.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Since external and decrementer interrupts set the runlatch on, we need
to ensure its set off again in the idle loop. At the moment we dont turn
it off in the inner loop.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()</title>
<updated>2006-04-11T13:51:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-11T13:51:17+00:00</published>
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Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the
pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference.

Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and
file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to
another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the
input pipe data.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@suse.de&gt;
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Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the
pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference.

Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and
file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to
another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the
input pipe data.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Configurable NODES_SHIFT</title>
<updated>2006-04-11T13:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yasunori Goto</name>
<email>y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-11T05:53:53+00:00</published>
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Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch.  Its definition is sometimes configurable.  Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree.  But it looks a bit messy.

SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config.  Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture.  So, I wrote configurable node's
number.

This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64.  But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.

On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config.  But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too.  So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT.  It
would be simpler.

See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=114358010523896&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@muc.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch.  Its definition is sometimes configurable.  Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree.  But it looks a bit messy.

SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config.  Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture.  So, I wrote configurable node's
number.

This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64.  But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.

On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config.  But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too.  So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT.  It
would be simpler.

See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=114358010523896&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@muc.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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