kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c, branch linux-2.6.18.y

[POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change platforms to use it

2006-07-03T11:36:01Z

This adds the new irq remapper core and removes the old one. Because there are some fundamental conflicts with the old code, like the value of NO_IRQ which I'm now setting to 0 (as per discussions with Linus), etc..., this commit also changes the relevant platform and driver code over to use the new remapper (so as not to cause difficulties later in bisecting). This patch removes the old pre-parsing of the open firmware interrupt tree along with all the bogus assumptions it made to try to renumber interrupts according to the platform. This is all to be handled by the new code now. For the pSeries XICS interrupt controller, a single remapper host is created for the whole machine regardless of how many interrupt presentation and source controllers are found, and it's set to match any device node that isn't a 8259. That works fine on pSeries and avoids having to deal with some of the complexities of split source controllers vs. presentation controllers in the pSeries device trees. The powerpc i8259 PIC driver now always requests the legacy interrupt range. It also has the feature of being able to match any device node (including NULL) if passed no device node as an input. That will help porting over platforms with broken device-trees like Pegasos who don't have a proper interrupt tree. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] change get_property to return void *

2006-07-02T22:56:33Z

Change the get_property() function to return a void *. This allows us to later remove the cast done in the majority of callers. Built for pseries, iseries, pmac32, cell, cbesim, g5, systemsim, maple, and mpc* defconfigs Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

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

[POWERPC] Use little-endian bit from firmware ibm,pa-features property

2006-06-29T07:12:30Z

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Setup RTAS values earlier, to enable rtas_call() earlier

2006-06-28T01:59:48Z

Althought RTAS is instantiated when we enter the kernel, we can't actually call into it until we know its entry point address. Currently we grab that in rtas_initialize(), however that's quite late in the boot sequence. To enable rtas_call() earlier, we can grab the RTAS entry etc. values while we're scanning the flattened device tree. There's existing code to retrieve the values from /chosen, however we don't store them there anymore, so remove that code. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Export flat device tree via debugfs for debugging

2006-06-28T01:59:46Z

If DEBUG is turned on in prom.c, export the flat device tree via debugfs. This has been handy on several occasions. To look at it: # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug # od -a /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/flat-device-tree and/or # dtc -fI dtb /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/flat-device-tree -O dts Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] cell: add RAS support

2006-06-21T05:01:29Z

This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability, Availability and Serviceability" features. It doesn't yet handle some of the RAS interrupts (the ones described in iic_is/iic_irr), I'm still working on a proper way to expose these. They are essentially a cascaded controller by themselves (sic !) though I may just handle them locally to the iic driver. I need also to sync with David Erb on the way he hooked in the performance monitor interrupt. So that's all for 2.6.17 and I'll do more work on that with my rework of the powerpc interrupt layer that I'm hacking on at the moment. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Prevent duplicate lmb reservations for Device Tree blob.

2006-06-21T05:01:27Z

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages

2006-06-15T00:45:18Z

Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but not for cache-inhibited pages. This patch lets us use 64k hardware pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y). User processes start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any non-cacheable mappings. With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for the imalloc region. If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages. I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this, though, and these machines don't have AGP. When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately. We use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages. If hash_page is trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE before inserting the 4k HPTE. The hash invalidation routines also use the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a set of 4k HPTEs to remove. With those two changes, we can tolerate a mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get removed when the address space is torn down. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Auto reserve of device tree blob

2006-05-19T05:02:26Z

A devtree compiler (dtc) generated devtree blob is "relocatable" and so does not contain a reserved_map entry for the blob itself. This means that if passed to Linux, Linux will not get lmb_reserve() the blob and it could be over. The following patch will explicitly reserve the "blob" as it was given to us and stops prom_init.c from creating a reserved mapping for the blob. NOTE: that the dtc/kexec should not generate the blob reservation entry. Although if they do, LMB reserver handles overlaps. Signed-off-by: Acked-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras