kernel.git/arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h, branch linux-3.7.y

s390: add support for transactional memory

2012-09-26T13:45:02Z

Allow user-space processes to use transactional execution (TX). If the TX facility is available user space programs can use transactions for fine-grained serialization based on the data objects that are referenced during a transaction. This is useful for lockless data structures and speculative compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

2012-07-20T09:15:04Z

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless. Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly different statements and wanted to change them one after another whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template for new files. So unify all of them in one go. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

s390/smp: make absolute lowcore / cpu restart parameter accesses more robust

2012-06-14T07:09:02Z

Setting the cpu restart parameters is done in three different fashions: - directly setting the four parameters individually - copying the four parameters with memcpy (using 4 * sizeof(long)) - copying the four parameters using a private structure In addition code in entry*.S relies on a certain order of the restart members of struct _lowcore. Make all of this more robust to future changes by adding a mem_absolute_assign(dest, val) define, which assigns val to dest using absolute addressing mode. Also the load multiple instructions in entry*.S have been split into separate load instruction so the order of the struct _lowcore members doesn't matter anymore. In addition move the prototypes of memcpy_real/absolute from uaccess.h to processor.h. These memcpy* variants are not related to uaccess at all. string.h doesn't seem to match as well, so lets use processor.h. Also replace the eight byte array in struct _lowcore which represents a misaliged u64 with a u64. The compiler will always create code that handles the misaligned u64 correctly. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Ensure that vmcore_info pointer is never accessed directly

2012-03-11T15:59:30Z

Because the vmcore_info pointer is not 8 byte aligned it never should not be accessed directly. The reason is that the compiler assumes that 64 bit pointer are always double word aligned. To ensure save access, the vmcore_info type in struct lowcore is changed from u64 to an u8[8] array and a comment is added. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Reported-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] kernel: Add OS info memory interface

2012-03-11T15:59:29Z

In order to allow kdump based stand-alone dump, some information has to be passed from the old kernel to the new dump kernel. This is done via a the struct "os_info" that contains the following fields: * crashkernel base and size * reipl block * vmcoreinfo * init function A pointer to os_info is stored at a well known storage location and the whole structure as well as all fields are secured with checksums. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] rework smp code

2012-03-11T15:59:28Z

Define struct pcpu and merge some of the NR_CPUS arrays into it, including __cpu_logical_map, current_set and smp_cpu_state. Split smp related functions to those operating on physical cpus and the functions operating on a logical cpu number. Make the functions for physical cpus use a pointer to a struct pcpu. This hides the knowledge about cpu addresses in smp.c, entry[64].S and swsusp_asm64.S, thus remove the sigp.h header. The PSW restart mechanism is used to start secondary cpus, calling a function on an online cpu, calling a function on the ipl cpu, and for the nmi signal. Replace the different assembler functions with a single function restart_int_handler. The new entry point calls a function whose pointer is stored in the lowcore of the target cpu and it can wait for the source cpu to stop. This covers all existing use cases. Overall the code is now simpler and there are ~380 lines less code. Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] rename lowcore field

2012-03-11T15:59:27Z

The 16 bit value at the lowcore location with offset 0x84 is the cpu address that is associated with an external interrupt. Rename the field from cpu_addr to ext_cpu_addr to make that clear. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] entry[64].S improvements

2011-12-27T10:27:12Z

Another round of cleanup for entry[64].S, in particular the program check handler looks more reasonable now. The code size for the 31 bit kernel has been reduced by 616 byte and by 528 byte for the 64 bit version. Even better the code is a bit faster as well. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] kvm: move cmf host id constant out of lowcore

2011-12-27T10:27:12Z

There is no reason for the cpu-measurement-facility host id constant to reside in the lowcore where space is precious. Use an entry in the literal pool in HANDLE_SIE_INTERCEPT and a stack slot in sie64a. While we are at it replace the id -1 with 0 to indicate host execution. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] lowcore cleanup

2011-10-30T14:16:42Z

Remove the save_area_64 field from the 0xe00 - 0xf00 area in the lowcore. Use a free slot in the save_area array instead. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky