kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S, branch linux-2.6.28.y

powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore, ptrace and signal support

2008-07-01T01:28:50Z

This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the VSX load/stores when VSX is available. This will make FP context save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available, as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits. Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state. The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31 doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers. Backward compatibility is maintained. The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full registers. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Add VSX assembler code macros

2008-07-01T01:28:48Z

This adds the macros for the VSX load/store instruction as most binutils are not going to support this for a while. Also add VSX register save/restore macros and vsr[0-63] register definitions. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Make load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec callable

2008-07-01T01:28:45Z

Make load_up_fpu and load_up_altivec callable so they can be reused by the VSX code. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S

2006-08-30T04:45:35Z

This code got moved from head.S but the copyright notice on head.S didn't get transferred with it. Noticed by Cort Dougan . Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[POWERPC] 64bit FPSCR support

2006-06-15T09:31:25Z

Forthcoming machines will extend the FPSCR to 64 bits. We already had a 64-bit save area for the FPSCR, but we need to use a new form of the mtfsf instruction. Fortunately this new form is decoded as an ordinary mtfsf by existing 64-bit processors. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc/64: Fix bug in setting floating-point exception mode

2006-02-07T02:55:30Z

When loading up the FPU, we were using a 'ld' (load doubleword) instruction to get the FP exception mode from the thread_struct, but it's only an int field. This changes the ld to lwz (load word and zero-extend). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup LOADADDR etc. asm macros

2006-01-13T10:16:23Z

This patch consolidates the variety of macros used for loading 32 or 64-bit constants in assembler (LOADADDR, LOADBASE, SET_REG_TO_*). The idea is to make the set of macros consistent across 32 and 64 bit and to make it more obvious which is the appropriate one to use in a given situation. The new macros and their semantics are described in the comments in ppc_asm.h. In the process, we change several places that were unnecessarily using immediate loads on ppc64 to use the GOT/TOC. Likewise we cleanup a couple of places where we were clumsily subtracting PAGE_OFFSET with asm instructions to use assemble-time arithmetic or the toreal() macro instead. Signed-off-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros

2005-11-10T02:10:38Z

This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for compatibility across different CPUs or configs. A new header, asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros. It uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files. Headers (bitops.h, uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility macros are changed to use asm-compat.h. ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces that. As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution here than in asm-compat.h. While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't. Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc). Built for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc). Signed-off-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Introduce toreal/fromreal assembly macros

2005-10-27T12:44:39Z

On 32-bit platforms, these convert from kernel virtual addresses to real (physical addresses), like tophys/tovirt but they use the same register for the source and destination. On 64-bit platforms, they do nothing because the hardware ignores the top two bits of the address in real mode. These new macros are used in fpu.S now. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras