kernel.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch linux-2.6.37.y

perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing

2011-03-23T19:50:36Z

commit 0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 upstream. Events on POWER7 can roll back if a speculative event doesn't eventually complete. Unfortunately in some rare cases they will raise a performance monitor exception. We need to catch this to ensure we reset the PMC. In all cases the PMC will be 256 or less cycles from overflow. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20110309143842.6c22845e@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Fix some 6xx/7xxx CPU setup functions

2011-02-17T23:14:42Z

commit 1f1936ff3febf38d582177ea319eaa278f32c91f upstream. Some of those functions try to adjust the CPU features, for example to remove NAP support on some revisions. However, they seem to use r5 as an index into the CPU table entry, which might have been right a long time ago but no longer is. r4 is the right register to use. This probably caused some off behaviours on some PowerMac variants using 750cx or 7455 processor revisions. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb

2010-11-18T16:24:58Z

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,ppc: Fix regression in evr register handling kgdb,x86: fix regression in detach handling kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceeded kdb: fix memory leak in kdb_main.c

powerpc: Update a BKL related comment

2010-11-18T03:54:24Z

The commit 5e3d20a remove bkl from startup code so setup_arch() it isn't called with bkl held anymore. Update the comment on top of that function. Fix also a typo. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

kgdb,ppc: Fix regression in evr register handling

2010-11-17T19:54:58Z

Commit ff10b88b5a05c8f1646dd15fb9f6093c1384ff6d (kgdb,ppc: Individual register get/set for ppc) introduced a problem where memcpy was used incorrectly to read and write the evr registers with a kernel that has: CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE=y CONFIG_SPE=y CONFIG_KGDB=y This patch also fixes the following compilation problems: arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'dbg_get_reg': arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:341: error: passing argument 2 of 'memcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'dbg_set_reg': arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:366: error: passing argument 1 of 'memcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast [jason.wessel@windriver.com: Remove void * casts and fix patch header] Reported-by: Milton Miller Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng Acked-by: Kumar Gala Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org

BKL: remove extraneous #include

2010-11-17T16:59:32Z

The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PPC: KVM: Book E doesn't have __end_interrupts.

2010-11-05T16:42:27Z

Fix an unresolved symbol with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST plus CONFIG_RELOCATABLE on Book E. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb

2010-10-29T18:49:38Z

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,ppc: Individual register get/set for ppc kgdbts: prevent re-entry to kgdbts before it unregisters debug_core,x86,blackfin: Clean up hw debug disable API kdb: Fix early debugging crash regression kgdb,arm: fix register dump kdb: fix per_cpu command to remove supress mask kdb: Add kdb kernel module sample

kgdb,ppc: Individual register get/set for ppc

2010-10-29T18:14:42Z

commit 534af1082329392bc29f6badf815e69ae2ae0f4c(kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API) introduce dbg_get_reg/dbg_set_reg API for individual register get and set. This patch implement those APIs for ppc. Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel

ptrace: cleanup arch_ptrace() on powerpc

2010-10-28T01:03:11Z

Use new 'datavp' and 'datalp' variables in order to remove unnecessary castings. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds