kernel.git/arch/ia64/kernel/head.S, branch linux-2.6.28.y

[IA64] Rationalize kernel mode alignment checking

2008-11-20T21:27:12Z

Itanium processors can handle some misaligned data accesses. They also provide a mode where all such accesses are forced to trap. The kernel was schizophrenic about use of this mode: * Base kernel code ran in permissive mode where the only traps generated were from those cases that the h/w could not handle. * Interrupt, syscall and trap code ran in strict mode where all unaligned accesses caused traps to the 0x5a00 unaligned reference vector. Use strict alignment checking throughout the kernel, but make sure that we continue to let user mode use more relaxed mode as the default. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Put the space for cpu0 per-cpu area into .data section

2008-09-29T23:39:19Z

Initial fix for making sure that we can access percpu variables in all C code (commit: 10617bbe84628eb18ab5f723d3ba35005adde143) inadvertantly allocated the memory in the "percpu" section of the vmlinux ELF executable. This confused kexec/dump. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot code

2008-08-12T17:34:20Z

ia64 handles per-cpu variables a litle differently from other architectures in that it maps the physical memory allocated for each cpu at a constant virtual address (0xffffffffffff0000). This mapping is not enabled until the architecture specific cpu_init() function is run, which causes problems since some generic code is run before this point. In particular when CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is enabled, the boot cpu will trap on the access to per-cpu memory at the first printk() call so the boot will fail without the kernel printing anything to the console. Fix this by allocating percpu memory for cpu0 in the kernel data section and doing all initialization to enable percpu access in head.S before calling any generic code. Other cpus must take care not to access per-cpu variables too early, but their code path from start_secondary() to cpu_init() is all in arch/ia64 Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Move include/asm-ia64 to arch/ia64/include/asm

2008-08-01T17:21:21Z

After moving the the include files there were a few clean-ups: 1) Some files used #include , changed to 2) Some comments alerted maintainers to look at various header files to make matching updates if certain code were to be changed. Updated these comments to use the new include paths. 3) Some header files mentioned their own names in initial comments. Just deleted these self references. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] pvops: add an early setup hook for pv_ops.

2008-05-27T21:39:54Z

This patch adds a setup hook in the very early boot sequence before start_kernel() to initialize paravirtualization stuff. The hook will be set by each pv loader code or by using multi entry point. Signed-off-by: Qing He Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING (accurate cpu time accounting)

2008-02-20T20:55:37Z

This patch implements VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING for ia64, which enable us to use more accurate cpu time accounting. The VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is an item of kernel config, which s390 and powerpc arch have. By turning this config on, these archs change the mechanism of cpu time accounting from tick-sampling based one to state-transition based one. The state-transition based accounting is done by checking time (cycle counter in processor) at every state-transition point, such as entrance/exit of kernel, interrupt, softirq etc. The difference between point to point is the actual time consumed during in the state. There is no doubt about that this value is more accurate than that of tick-sampling based accounting. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Remove assembler warnings on head.S

2007-12-19T19:15:12Z

This patch removes the following assembler warning messages. AS arch/ia64/kernel/head.o arch/ia64/kernel/head.S: Assembler messages: arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1179: Warning: Use of 'ld8' violates RAW dependency 'CR[PTA]' (data) arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1179: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1178: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1180: Warning: Use of 'ld8' violates RAW dependency 'CR[PTA]' (data) arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1180: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1178: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage : arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1213: Warning: Use of 'ldf.fill.nta' violates RAW dependency 'CR[PTA]' (data) arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1213: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:1178: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] fix section mismatch warnings

2007-07-25T20:08:26Z

In 741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581 Sam added full checking across the entire vmlinux image. This flushed out a dozen new section mismatch warnings. Start the whack-a-mole game again to stomp them out. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Save register stack contents on cpu start

2006-09-08T18:05:13Z

The SN PROM uses the register stack in the slave loop. The contents must be preserved for the OS to return to the slave loop via offlining a cpu or for kexec. A 'flushrs" is needed to force the stack to be written to memory prior to changing bspstore. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Don't alloc empty frame in ia64_switch_mode_phys

2006-08-02T23:13:17Z

I think ia64_switch_mode_phys and ia64_switch_mode_virt does not need to alloc an empty frame. An empty frame is required by loadrs but flushrs does not need that. Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai Signed-off-by: Tony Luck