kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c, branch linux-3.17.y

Merge tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux

2014-08-14T15:53:39Z

Pull device tree updates from Grant Likely: "The branch contains the following device tree changes the v3.17 merge window: Group changes to the device tree. In preparation for adding device tree overlay support, OF_DYNAMIC is reworked so that a set of device tree changes can be prepared and applied to the tree all at once. OF_RECONFIG notifiers see the most significant change here so that users always get a consistent view of the tree. Notifiers generation is moved from before a change to after it, and notifiers for a group of changes are emitted after the entire block of changes have been applied Automatic console selection from DT. Console drivers can now use of_console_check() to see if the device node is specified as a console device. If so then it gets added as a preferred console. UART devices get this support automatically when uart_add_one_port() is called. DT unit tests no longer depend on pre-loaded data in the device tree. Data is loaded dynamically at the start of unit tests, and then unloaded again when the tests have completed. Also contains a few bugfixes for reserved regions and early memory setup" * tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux: (21 commits) of: Fixing OF Selftest build error drivers: of: add automated assignment of reserved regions to client devices of: Use proper types for checking memory overflow of: typo fix in __of_prop_dup() Adding selftest testdata dynamically into live tree of: Add todo tasklist for Devicetree of: Transactional DT support. of: Reorder device tree changes and notifiers of: Move dynamic node fixups out of powerpc and into common code of: Make sure attached nodes don't carry along extra children of: Make devicetree sysfs update functions consistent. of: Create unlocked versions of node and property add/remove functions OF: Utility helper functions for dynamic nodes of: Move CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC code into a separate file of: rename of_aliases_mutex to just of_mutex of/platform: Fix of_platform_device_destroy iteration of devices of: Migrate of_find_node_by_name() users to for_each_node_by_name() tty: Update hypervisor tty drivers to use core stdout parsing code. arm/versatile: Add the uart as the stdout device. of: Enable console on serial ports specified by /chosen/stdout-path ...

Merge remote-tracking branch 'scott/next' into next

2014-08-05T04:13:41Z

Scott writes: Highlights include e6500 hardware threading support, an e6500 TLB erratum workaround, corenet error reporting, support for a new board, and some minor fixes.

powerpc/e6500: Add support for hardware threads

2014-07-30T00:26:20Z

The general idea is that each core will release all of its threads into the secondary thread startup code, which will eventually wait in the secondary core holding area, for the appropriate bit in the PACA to be set. The kick_cpu function pointer will set that bit in the PACA, and thus "release" the core/thread to boot. We also need to do a few things that U-Boot normally does for CPUs (like enable branch prediction). Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming [scottwood@freescale.com: various changes, including only enabling threads if Linux wants to kick them] Signed-off-by: Scott Wood

powerpc: Remove MMU_FTR_SLB

2014-07-28T04:10:23Z

We now only support cpus that use an SLB, so we don't need an MMU feature to indicate that. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

of: Move dynamic node fixups out of powerpc and into common code

2014-07-23T23:05:46Z

PowerPC does an odd thing with dynamic nodes. It uses a notifier to catch new node additions and set some of the values like name and type. This makes no sense since that same code can be put directly into of_attach_node(). Besides, all dynamic node users need this, not just powerpc. Fix this problem by moving the logic out of arch/powerpc and into drivers/of/dynamic.c. It is also important to remove this notifier because we want to move the firing of notifiers from before the tree is modified to after so that the receiver gets a consistent view of the tree, but that is incompatible with notifiers that modify the node. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely Cc: Nathan Fontenot Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/powernv: Remove OPAL v1 takeover

2014-06-25T03:10:47Z

In commit 27f4488872d9 "Add OPAL takeover from PowerVM" we added support for "takeover" on OPAL v1 machines. This was a mode of operation where we would boot under pHyp, and query for the presence of OPAL. If detected we would then do a special sequence to take over the machine, and the kernel would end up running in hypervisor mode. OPAL v1 was never a supported product, and was never shipped outside IBM. As far as we know no one is still using it. Newer versions of OPAL do not use the takeover mechanism. Although the query for OPAL should be harmless on machines with newer OPAL, we have seen a machine where it causes a crash in Open Firmware. The code in early_init_devtree() to copy boot_command_line into cmd_line was added in commit 817c21ad9a1f "Get kernel command line accross OPAL takeover", and AFAIK is only used by takeover, so should also be removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: use libfdt accessors for header data

2014-04-30T05:59:18Z

With libfdt support, we can take advantage of helper accessors in libfdt for accessing the FDT header data. This makes the code more readable and makes the FDT blob structure more opaque to the kernel. This also prepares for removing struct boot_param_header completely. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Tested-by: Grant Likely Tested-by: Stephen Chivers

of/fdt: move memreserve and dtb memory reservations into core

2014-04-30T05:59:17Z

Move the /memreserve/ processing and dtb memory reservations into early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem. This converts arm, arm64, and powerpc as they are the only users of early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem. memblock_reserve is safe to call on the same region twice, so the reservation check for the dtb in powerpc 32-bit reservations is safe to remove. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Tested-by: Michal Simek Cc: Russell King Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Tested-by: Grant Likely Tested-by: Stephen Chivers

of/fdt: create common debugfs

2014-04-30T05:59:16Z

Both powerpc and microblaze have the same FDT blob in debugfs feature. Move this to common location and remove the powerpc and microblaze implementations. This feature could become more useful when FDT overlay support is added. This changes the path of the blob from "$arch/flat-device-tree" to "device-tree/flat-device-tree". Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Tested-by: Michal Simek Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Tested-by: Grant Likely Tested-by: Stephen Chivers

of/fdt: update of_get_flat_dt_prop in prep for libfdt

2014-04-30T05:59:15Z

Make of_get_flat_dt_prop arguments compatible with libfdt fdt_getprop call in preparation to convert FDT code to use libfdt. Make the return value const and the property length ptr type an int. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Tested-by: Michal Simek Tested-by: Grant Likely Tested-by: Stephen Chivers