kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

Merge commit 'origin'

2008-10-15T00:31:54Z

Manual fixup of conflicts on: arch/powerpc/include/asm/dcr-regs.h drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.h

powerpc/smp: No need to set_need_resched when getting a resched IPI

2008-10-13T05:24:20Z

The comment in the code was asking "Do we have to do this?", and according to x86 and s390 the answer is no, the scheduler will do it before calling the arch hook. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier

2008-09-08T17:25:24Z

Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs. Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map. The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers. Tested on x86-64. All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got it right. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

powerpc: Make core id information available to userspace

2008-07-28T06:30:52Z

Existing Open Firmware practice is to report each processor core as a separate node in the device tree. Report the value of the "reg" OF property corresponding to a logical CPU's device node as the core_id attribute in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/core_id. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Make core sibling information available to userspace

2008-07-28T06:30:51Z

Implement the notion of "core siblings" for powerpc. This makes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/core_siblings present sensible values, indicating online CPUs which share an L2 cache. BenH: Made cpu_to_l2cache() use of_find_node_by_phandle() instead of IBM-specific open coded search Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Update cpu_sibling_maps dynamically

2008-07-28T06:30:49Z

Rather doing one initialization pass over all the per-cpu cpu_sibling_maps at boot, update the maps at cpu online/offline time. This is a behavior change -- the thread_siblings attribute now reflects only online siblings, whereas it would display offline siblings before. The new behavior matches that of x86, and is arguably more useful. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge commit 'origin/master'

2008-07-16T01:07:59Z

Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c

smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument

2008-06-26T09:24:35Z

It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry interchangably. So get rid of it. Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

powerpc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls

2008-06-26T09:22:13Z

This converts ppc to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). ppc loses the timeout functionality of smp_call_function_mask() with this change, as the generic code does not provide that. Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[POWERPC] Fix sparse warnings in arch/powerpc/kernel

2008-05-14T12:31:59Z

Make a few things static in lparcfg.c Make init and exit routines static in rtas_flash.c Make things static in rtas_pci.c Make some functions static in rtas.c Make fops static in rtas-proc.c Remove unneeded extern for do_gtod in smp.c Make clocksource_init() static in time.c Make last_tick_len and ticklen_to_xs static in time.c Move the declaration of the pvr per-cpu into smp.h Make kexec_smp_down() and kexec_stack static in machine_kexec_64.c Don't return void in arch_teardown_msi_irqs() in msi.c Move declaration of GregorianDay()into asm/time.h Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras