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Following S390's good example we should use hrtimers for the decrementer too!
This patch converts the timer from the old mechanism to hrtimers.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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It looks like the variable "pc" is defined. At least the current code always
failed on me stating that "pc" is already defined somewhere else.
Let's use _pc instead, because that doesn't collide.
Is this the right approach? Does it break on 440 too? If not, why not?
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Now we have everything in place to be able to build KVM, so let's add it
as config option and in the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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In order to access fields in the PACA from assembly code, we need
to generate offsets using asm-offsets.c.
So let's add the new PACA related bits, we just introduced!
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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For KVM we need to store some information in the PACA, so we
need to extend it.
This patch adds KVM SLB shadow related entries to the PACA and
a field that indicates if we're inside a guest.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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To be able to keep KVM as module, we need to export the SLB trampoline
addresses to the module, so it knows where to jump to.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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For KVM we need to allocate a new context id, but don't really care about
all the mm context around it.
So let's split the alloc and destroy functions for the context id, so we can
grab one without allocating an mm context.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We want to be able to build KVM as a module. To enable us doing so, we
need some more exports from core Linux parts.
This patch exports all functions and variables that are required for KVM.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We need to access some VCPU fields from assembly code. In order to get
the proper offsets, we have to define them in asm-offsets.c.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We need to run some KVM trampoline code in real mode. Unfortunately, real mode
only covers 8MB on Cell so we need to squeeze ourselves as low as possible.
Also, we need to trap interrupts to get us back from guest state to host state
without telling Linux about it.
This patch adds interrupt traps and includes the KVM code that requires real
mode in the real mode parts of Linux.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Little opcodes behave differently on desktop and embedded PowerPC cores.
In order to reflect those differences, let's add some #ifdef code to emulate.c.
We could probably also handle them in the core specific emulation files, but I
would prefer to reuse as much code as possible.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically
triggers the CPU local timer.
But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor.
This is required at least by all desktop and server PowerPC Linux kernels. It
can't really hurt to allow embedded ones to do it as well though.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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There are generic parts of PowerPC that can be shared across all
implementations and specific parts that only apply to BookE or desktop PPCs.
This patch adds emulation for desktop specific opcodes that don't apply
to BookE CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch adds an implementation for a G3/G4 MMU, so we can run G3 and
G4 guests in KVM on Book3s_64.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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To be able to run a guest, we also need to implement a guest MMU.
This patch adds MMU handling for Book3s_64 guests.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We designed the Book3S port of KVM as modular as possible. Most
of the code could be easily used on a Book3S_32 host as well.
The main difference between 32 and 64 bit cores is the MMU. To keep
things well separated, we treat the book3s_64 MMU as one possible compile
option.
This patch adds all the MMU helpers the rest of the code needs in
order to modify the host's MMU, like setting PTEs and segments.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This adds the book3s core handling file. Here everything that is generic to
desktop PowerPC cores is handled, including interrupt injections, MSR settings,
etc.
It basically takes over the same role as booke.c for embedded PowerPCs.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Getting from host state to the guest is only half the story. We also need
to return to our host context and handle whatever happened to get us out of
the guest.
On PowerPC every guest exit is an interrupt. So all we need to do is trap
the host's interrupt handlers and get into our #VMEXIT code to handle it.
PowerPCs also have a register that can add an offset to the interrupt handlers'
adresses which is what the booke KVM code uses. Unfortunately that is a
hypervisor ressource and we also want to be able to run KVM when we're running
in an LPAR. So we have to hook into the Linux interrupt handlers.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This is the really low level of guest entry/exit code.
Book3s_64 has an SLB, which stores all ESID -> VSID mappings we're
currently aware of.
The segments in the guest differ from the ones on the host, so we need
to switch the SLB to tell the MMU that we're in a new context.
So we store a shadow of the guest's SLB in the PACA, switch to that on
entry and only restore bolted entries on exit, leaving the rest to the
Linux SLB fault handler.
That way we get a really clean way of switching the SLB.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This is the of entry / exit code. In order to switch between host and guest
context, we need to switch register state and call the exit code handler on
exit.
This assembly file does exactly that. To finally enter the guest it calls
into book3s_64_slb.S. On exit it gets jumped at from book3s_64_slb.S too.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We need to intercept interrupt vectors. To do that, let's add a file
we can always include which only activates the intercepts when we have
then configured.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This adds the book3s specific header file that contains structs that
are only valid on book3s specific code.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We need to store more information than we currently have for vcpus
when running on Book3s.
So let's extend the internal struct definitions.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We need quite a bunch of new constants for KVM on Book3s,
so let's define them now.
These constants will be used in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Right now sregs is unused on PPC, so we can use it for initialization
of the CPU.
KVM on BookE always virtualizes the host CPU. On Book3s we go a step further
and take the PVR from userspace that tells us what kind of CPU we are supposed
to virtualize, because we support Book3s_32 and Book3s_64 guests.
In order to get that information, we use the sregs ioctl, because we don't
want to reset the guest CPU on every normal register set.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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PowerPC code handles dirty logging in the generic parts atm. While this
is great for "return -ENOTSUPP", we need to be rather target specific
when actually implementing it.
So let's split it to implementation specific code, so we can implement
it for book3s.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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pasemi_defconfig hasn't been updated for a year.
Mostly a refresh of defaults, but this also disables 64K pages.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Defining CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ enables generic code that gets rid of the
static irq_desc array, and replaces it with an array of pointers to
irq_descs.
It also allows node local allocation of irq_descs, however we
currently don't have the information available to do that, so we just
allocate them on all on node 0.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Move the default case out of the if, ie. when we're just displaying
an irq. And consolidate all the odd cases at the top, ie. printing
the header and footer.
And in the process cope with sparse irq_descs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Mark all functions which are only called from nvram_init() __init.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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nvram_clear_error_log() calls ppc_md.nvram_write() even when
nvram_error_log_index is -1 (invalid). The nvram_write() function does
not check for a negative offset.
Check nvram_error_log_index as the other nvram log functions do.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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nvram_find_partition() has no user. The call site was removed in the
arch/powerpc move, but the function stayed. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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irqs_disabled_flags is #defined in linux/irqflags.h when
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is enabled. 64 and 32 bit always have
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT enabled so just remove
irqs_disabled_flags.
This fixes the case when someone needs to include both linux/irqflags.h
and asm/hw_irq.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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accessors
The hugepage arch code provides a number of hook functions/macros
which mirror the functionality of various normal page pte access
functions. Various changes in the normal page accessors (in
particular BenH's recent changes to the handling of lazy icache
flushing and PAGE_EXEC) have caused the hugepage versions to get out
of sync with the originals. In some cases, this is a bug, at least on
some MMU types.
One of the reasons that some hooks were not identical to the normal
page versions, is that the fact we're dealing with a hugepage needed
to be passed down do use the correct dcache-icache flush function.
This patch makes the main flush_dcache_icache_page() function hugepage
aware (by checking for the PageCompound flag). That in turn means we
can make set_huge_pte_at() just a call to set_pte_at() bringing it
back into sync. As a bonus, this lets us remove the
hash_huge_page_do_lazy_icache() function, replacing it with a call to
the hash_page_do_lazy_icache() function it was based on.
Some other hugepage pte access hooks - huge_ptep_get_and_clear() and
huge_ptep_clear_flush() - are not so easily unified, but this patch at
least brings them back into sync with the current versions of the
corresponding normal page functions.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch separates the parts of hugetlbpage.c which are inherently
specific to the hash MMU into a new hugelbpage-hash64.c file.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch simplifies the logic used to initialize hugepages on
powerpc. The somewhat oddly named set_huge_psize() is renamed to
add_huge_page_size() and now does all necessary verification of
whether it's given a valid hugepage sizes (instead of just some) and
instantiates the generic hstate structure (but no more).
hugetlbpage_init() now steps through the available pagesizes, checks
if they're valid for hugepages by calling add_huge_page_size() and
initializes the kmem_caches for the hugepage pagetables. This means
we can now eliminate the mmu_huge_psizes array, since we no longer
need to pass the sizing information for the pagetable caches from
set_huge_psize() into hugetlbpage_init()
Determination of the default huge page size is also moved from the
hash code into the general hugepage code.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Currently each available hugepage size uses a slightly different
pagetable layout: that is, the bottem level table of pointers to
hugepages is a different size, and may branch off from the normal page
tables at a different level. Every hugepage aware path that needs to
walk the pagetables must therefore look up the hugepage size from the
slice info first, and work out the correct way to walk the pagetables
accordingly. Future hardware is likely to add more possible hugepage
sizes, more layout options and more mess.
This patch, therefore reworks the handling of hugepage pagetables to
reduce this complexity. In the new scheme, instead of having to
consult the slice mask, pagetable walking code can check a flag in the
PGD/PUD/PMD entries to see where to branch off to hugepage pagetables,
and the entry also contains the information (eseentially hugepage
shift) necessary to then interpret that table without recourse to the
slice mask. This scheme can be extended neatly to handle multiple
levels of self-describing "special" hugepage pagetables, although for
now we assume only one level exists.
This approach means that only the pagetable allocation path needs to
know how the pagetables should be set out. All other (hugepage)
pagetable walking paths can just interpret the structure as they go.
There already was a flag bit in PGD/PUD/PMD entries for hugepage
directory pointers, but it was only used for debug. We alter that
flag bit to instead be a 0 in the MSB to indicate a hugepage pagetable
pointer (normally it would be 1 since the pointer lies in the linear
mapping). This means that asm pagetable walking can test for (and
punt on) hugepage pointers with the same test that checks for
unpopulated page directory entries (beq becomes bge), since hugepage
pointers will always be positive, and normal pointers always negative.
While we're at it, we get rid of the confusing (and grep defeating)
#defining of hugepte_shift to be the same thing as mmu_huge_psizes.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Currently we have a fair bit of rather fiddly code to manage the
various kmem_caches used to store page tables of various levels. We
generally have two caches holding some combination of PGD, PUD and PMD
tables, plus several more for the special hugepage pagetables.
This patch cleans this all up by taking a different approach. Rather
than the caches being designated as for PUDs or for hugeptes for 16M
pages, the caches are simply allocated to be a specific size. Thus
sharing of caches between different types/levels of pagetables happens
naturally. The pagetable size, where needed, is passed around encoded
in the same way as {PGD,PUD,PMD}_INDEX_SIZE; that is n where the
pagetable contains 2^n pointers.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Currently, hpte_need_flush() only correctly flushes the given address
for normal pages. Callers for hugepages are required to mask the
address themselves.
But hpte_need_flush() already looks up the page sizes for its own
reasons, so this is a rather silly imposition on the callers. This
patch alters it to mask based on the pagesize it has looked up itself,
and removes the awkward masking code in the hugepage caller.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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When running Active Memory Sharing, the Collaborative Memory Manager (CMM)
may mark some pages as "loaned" with the hypervisor. Periodically, the
CMM will query the hypervisor for a loan request, which is a single signed
value. When kexec'ing into a kdump kernel, the CMM driver in the kdump
kernel is not aware of the pages the previous kernel had marked as "loaned",
so the hypervisor and the CMM driver are out of sync. Fix the CMM driver
to handle this scenario by ignoring requests to decrease the number of loaned
pages if we don't think we have any pages loaned. Pages that are marked as
"loaned" which are not in the balloon will automatically get switched to "active"
the next time we touch the page. This also fixes the case where totalram_pages
is smaller than min_mem_mb, which can occur during kdump.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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get_irq_desc() is a powerpc-specific version of irq_to_desc(). That
is reason enough to remove it, but it also doesn't know about sparse
irq_desc support which irq_to_desc() does (when we enable it).
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Rather than open-coding our own check, use irq_has_action()
to check if an irq has an action - ie. is "in use".
irq_has_action() doesn't take the descriptor lock, but it
shouldn't matter - we're just using it as an indicator
that the irq is in use. disable_irq_nosync() will take
the descriptor lock before doing anything also.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The irq_desc array consumes quite a lot of space, and for systems
that don't need or can't have 512 irqs it's just wasted space.
The first 16 are reserved for ISA, so the minimum of 32 is really
16 - and no one has asked for more than 512 so leave that as the
maximum.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The CHRP code has some fishy timer based code to scan the RTAS event
log, which uses a 1KB stack buffer and doesn't even use the results.
The pSeries code as a nicer daemon that allows userspace to read the
event log and basically uses the same RTAS interface
This patch moves rtasd.c out of platform/pseries and makes it usable
by CHRP, after removing the old crufty event log mechanism in there.
The nvram logging part of the daemon is still only available on 64-bit
since the underlying nvram management routines aren't currently shared.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Some of the stuff in /proc/ppc64 such as the RTAS bits are actually
useful to some 32-bit platforms. Rename the file, and create a
symlink on 64-bit for backward compatibility
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Just as with kexec, hibernation may fail even on well-tested platforms:
some PCI device, a driver of which doesn't play well with hibernation,
is enough to break resuming.
Hibernation code is not much platform dependent, and hiding features only
because these were not verified on a particular hardware is
counterproductive: we just prevent the features from being widely tested.
For example, with this patch I just tested hibernation on a MPC83xx
board, and it works quite well, modulo a few drivers that need some
fixing.
So, let's make it possible to select hibernation support for all
PowerPCs, then let's wait for any possible bug reports, and actually fix
(or just collect ;-) the bugs instead of hiding them. If some platforms
really can't stand hibernation, we can make a blacklist, with proper
comments why exactly hibernation doesn't work, whether it is possible to
fix, and what needs to be done to fix it.
CONFIG_HIBERNATION is still =n by default, so the commit doesn't change
anything apart from ability to set it to =y.
I'm not sure if EXPERIMENTAL dependency is needed, I'd rather not add it
for a few reasons:
1) It doesn't matter much, for distro kernels user has no clue that some
feature is experimental. Majority of defconfigs enable EXPERIMENTAL
anyway (90 vs. 4, which, btw, means that EXPERIMENTAL is overused
in Kconfigs);
2) EXPERIMENTAL is a good thing for features that change default
behaviour of a kernel, while for hibernation user has to explicitly
issue 'echo disk > /sys/power/state' to trigger any hibernation bugs;
3) Per init/Kconfig, EXPERIMENTAL is a good thing to scare and discourage
users from 'widespread use of a feature', while we want to encourage
that use.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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