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2010-06-22	powerpc: Emulate most Book I instructions in emulate_step()	Paul Mackerras
	This extends the emulate_step() function to handle a large proportion of the Book I instructions implemented on current 64-bit server processors. The aim is to handle all the load and store instructions used in the kernel, plus all of the instructions that appear between l[wd]arx and st[wd]cx., so this handles the Altivec/VMX lvx and stvx and the VSX lxv2dx and stxv2dx instructions (implemented in POWER7). The new code can emulate user mode instructions, and checks the effective address for a load or store if the saved state is for user mode. It doesn't handle little-endian mode at present. For floating-point, Altivec/VMX and VSX instructions, it checks that the saved MSR has the enable bit for the relevant facility set, and if so, assumes that the FP/VMX/VSX registers contain valid state, and does loads or stores directly to/from the FP/VMX/VSX registers, using assembly helpers in ldstfp.S. Instructions supported now include: * Loads and stores, including some but not all VMX and VSX instructions, and lmw/stmw * Atomic loads and stores (l[dw]arx, st[dw]cx.) * Arithmetic instructions (add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc.) * Compare instructions * Rotate and mask instructions * Shift instructions * Logical instructions (and, or, xor, etc.) * Condition register logical instructions * mtcrf, cntlz[wd], exts[bhw] * isync, sync, lwsync, ptesync, eieio * Cache operations (dcbf, dcbst, dcbt, dcbtst) The overflow-checking arithmetic instructions are not included, but they appear not to be ever used in C code. This uses decimal values for the minor opcodes in the switch statements because that is what appears in the Power ISA specification, thus it is easier to check that they are correct if they are in decimal. If this is used to single-step an instruction where a data breakpoint interrupt occurred, then there is the possibility that the instruction is a lwarx or ldarx. In that case we have to be careful not to lose the reservation until we get to the matching st[wd]cx., or we'll never make forward progress. One alternative is to try to arrange that we can return from interrupts and handle data breakpoint interrupts without losing the reservation, which means not using any spinlocks, mutexes, or atomic ops (including bitops). That seems rather fragile. The other alternative is to emulate the larx/stcx and all the instructions in between. This is why this commit adds support for a wide range of integer instructions. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-05-17	PPC: Add STLU	Alexander Graf
	For assembly code there are several "long" load and store defines already. The one that's missing is the typical stack store, stdu/stwu. So let's add that define as well, making my KVM code happy. CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-18	powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs	Paul Mackerras
	This implements a powerpc version of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs to get correct call-graphs. It's implemented in assembly because that way we can be sure there isn't a stack frame for perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs. If it was in C, gcc might or might not create a stack frame for it, which would affect the number of levels we have to skip. With this, we see results from perf record -e lock:lock_acquire like this: # Samples: 24878 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ...... # 14.99% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ._raw_spin_lock \| --- ._raw_spin_lock \| \|--25.00%-- .alloc_fd \| (nil) \| \| \| \|--50.00%-- .anon_inode_getfd \| \| .sys_perf_event_open \| \| syscall_exit \| \| syscall \| \| create_counter \| \| __cmd_record \| \| run_builtin \| \| main \| \| 0xfd2e704 \| \| 0xfd2e8c0 \| \| (nil) ... etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100318050513.GA6575@drongo> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-17	powerpc: Use lwarx/ldarx hint in bit locks	Anton Blanchard
	This patch implements the lwarx/ldarx hint bit for bit locks. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-08-04	powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm	Stephen Rothwell
	from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>