kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S, branch linux-2.6.19.y

[PATCH] powerpc: Eliminate "exceeds stub group size" linker warning

2006-11-01T22:56:59Z

It turns out that the linker warnings on 64-bit powerpc about "section blah exceeds stub group size" were being triggered by conditional branches in head_64.S branching to global symbols, whether in head_64.S or in other files. This eliminates the warnings by making some global symbols in head_64.S no longer global, and by rearranging some branches. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras [ Yee-haa. Maybe I'll notice newly introduced real warnings now - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Make sure __cpu_preinit_ppc970 gets called on 970GX processors

2006-10-25T23:20:07Z

Add check for 970GX for __cpu_preinit_ppc970. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Consolidate feature fixup code

2006-10-25T01:42:10Z

There are currently two versions of the functions for applying the feature fixups, one for CPU features and one for firmware features. In addition, they are both in assembly and with separate implementations for 32 and 64 bits. identify_cpu() is also implemented in assembly and separately for 32 and 64 bits. This patch replaces them with a pair of C functions. The call sites are slightly moved on ppc64 as well to be called from C instead of from assembly, though it's a very small change, and thus shouldn't cause any problem. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] implement BEGIN/END_FW_FTR_SECTION

2006-10-03T06:50:21Z

and use it an all the obvious places in assembler code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell

[POWERPC] powerpc: Reduce default cacheline size to 64 bytes

2006-09-13T08:39:52Z

Reduce default cacheline size on 64-bit powerpc from 128 bytes to 64. This is the architected minimum. In most cases we'll still end up using cache line information from the device tree, but defaults are used during early boot and doing a few dcbst/icbi's too many there won't do any harm. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Cleanup CPU inits

2006-08-25T03:27:35Z

Cleanup CPU inits a bit more, Geoff Levand already did some earlier. * Move CPU state save to cpu_setup, since cpu_setup is only ever done on cpu 0 on 64-bit and save is never done more than once. * Rename __restore_cpu_setup to __restore_cpu_ppc970 and add function pointers to the cputable to use instead. Powermac always has 970 so no need to check there. * Rename __970_cpu_preinit to __cpu_preinit_ppc970 and check PVR before calling it instead of in it, it's too early to use cputable. * Rename pSeries_secondary_smp_init to generic_secondary_smp_init since everyone but powermac and iSeries use it. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] force 64bit mode in fwnmi handlers to workaround firmware bugs

2006-07-28T18:07:08Z

The firmware of POWER4 and JS20 systems does not switch the cpu to 64bit mode when the registered system_reset and machine_check handlers get called. If a 32bit process runs on that cpu at the time of the event, the cpu remains in 32bit mode. xmon and kdump can not deal with it, the result is an error like 'Bad kernel stack pointer fff2aad0 at 3200'. xmon just loses some register info, but booting the kdump kernel usually fails. Both handlers are not hot paths. Duplicate the EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES macro and add two instructions to switch to 64bit: li r11,5; rldimi r10,r11,61,0; Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

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

[POWERPC] Make sure smp_processor_id works very early in boot

2006-06-29T06:22:47Z

There's a small period early in boot where we don't know which cpu we're running on. That's ok, except that it means we have no paca, or more correctly that our paca pointer points somewhere random. So that we can safely call things like smp_processor_id(), we need a paca, so just assume we're on cpu 0. No code should _write_ to the paca before we've set the correct one up. We setup the proper paca after we've scanned the flat device tree in early_setup(), so there's no need to do it again in start_here_common. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Skip the "copy down" of the kernel if it is already at zero.

2006-06-28T05:18:53Z

This patch allows the kernel to recognized that it was loaded at zero and the copy down of the image is unnecessary. This is useful for Simulators and kexec models. On a typical 3.8 MiB vmlinux.strip this saves about 2.3 million instructions. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras