kernel.git/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S, branch linux-2.6.28.y

[S390] System z large page support.

2008-04-30T11:38:47Z

This adds hugetlbfs support on System z, using both hardware large page support if available and software large page emulation on older hardware. Shared (large) page tables are implemented in software emulation mode, by using page->index of the first tail page from a compound large page to store page table information. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Convert machine feature detection code to C.

2008-04-30T11:38:47Z

From: Heiko Carstens From: Carsten Otte This lets us use defines for the magic bits in machine flags instead of using plain numbers all over the place. In addition on newer machines features/facilities are indicated by the result of the stfl instruction. So we use these bits instead of trying to execute new instructions and check wether we get an exception or not. Also the mvpg instruction is always available when in zArch mode, whereas the idte instruction is only available in zArch mode. This results in some minor optimizations. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Fix tlb flushing with idte.

2008-01-26T13:11:10Z

The clear-by-asce operation of the idte instruction gets an asce (address-space-control-element) as argument to specify which TLBs need to get flushed. The current code passes a plain pointer to the start of the pgd without the additional bits which would make the pointer an asce. The current machines don't mind the difference but a future model might want to use the designation type control bits in the asce as a filter for the TLBs to flush. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] zfcpdump support.

2007-04-27T14:01:44Z

s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first 32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved memory can be accessed from Linux. This patch exports memory and registers of the crashed Linux to userspace via a debugfs file. For more information refer to Documentation/s390/zfcpdump.txt, which is included in this patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[S390] Fixed handling of access register mode faults.

2007-03-05T22:35:54Z

Replaced check_user_space() + __check_access_register with the new check_space(). The old functions made wrong assumptions about kernel and user space when the kernel and user address spaces are switched (kernel in home space, user in primary/secondary space). Secondly the user process can switch to the accress register mode if it is running in primary or secondary mode. In addition it can load an arbitrary value to the access registers. If any other value than 0 for primary space or 1 for secondary space is loaded and memory is accessed using the base register related to the access register, the program should be terminated with a SIGSEGV. To achieve that the DUALD pointer in the DUCT and the PSALD pointer in the PASTE need to point to an array of 8 invalid access-list entries to get a ALEN-translation exception if an invalid alet is used. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] nss: Free unused memory in kernel image.

2007-02-21T09:55:37Z

With CONFIG_SHARED_KERNEL the kernel text segment that might be in a read only memory sections starts at 1MB. Memory between 0x12000 and 0x100000 is unused then. Free this, so we have appr. an extra MB of memory available. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Convert memory detection into C code.

2007-02-05T20:18:37Z

Hopefully this will make it more maintainable and less error prone. Code makes use of search_exception_tables(). Since it calls this function before the kernel exeception table is sorted, there is an early call to sort_main_extable(). This way it's easy to use the already present infrastructure of fixup sections. Also this would allows to easily convert the rest of head[31|64].S into C code. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] boot from NSS support

2007-02-05T20:18:24Z

Add support to boot from a named saved segment (NSS). Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Fix FCP dump feature detection.

2007-02-05T20:17:07Z

FCP dump feature detection works only if the sclp command in head.S was succesful. Since the sclp command is skipped if diag260 works, we don't have any dump feature detection anymore. Bug was introduced with d57de5a36791cb1b7285649c62f183b0d3505f7d. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] memory detection misses 128k.

2007-01-09T09:18:36Z

Fix a memory leak problem in the memory detection routines. A memory leak of 128k occurs when we have a contiguous memory with mixed access-mode (read or write) ranges. Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky