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2009-12-09Merge commit 'origin/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Conflicts: include/linux/kvm.h
2009-11-05Make head_64.S aware of KVM real mode codeAlexander Graf
We need to run some KVM trampoline code in real mode. Unfortunately, real mode only covers 8MB on Cell so we need to squeeze ourselves as low as possible. Also, we need to trap interrupts to get us back from guest state to host state without telling Linux about it. This patch adds interrupt traps and includes the KVM code that requires real mode in the real mode parts of Linux. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-28powerpc: perf_event: Cleanup output by adding symbolsAnton Blanchard
Add some dummy symbols for the branches at 0xf00, 0xf20 and 0xf40, otherwise hits end up in trap_0e which is confusing to the user. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-08-20Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-20powerpc: Remove use of a second scratch SPRG in STAB codeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The STAB code used on Power3 and RS/64 uses a second scratch SPRG to save a GPR in order to decide whether to go to do_stab_bolted_* or to handle a normal data access exception. This prevents our scheme of freeing SPRG3 which is user visible for user uses since we cannot use SPRG0 which, on RS/64, seems to be read-only for supervisor mode (like POWER4). This reworks the STAB exception entry to use the PACA as temporary storage instead. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer. We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc.. and the current choice isn't always the best. This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to what those are used for on each processor family. The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all the SPRGs. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20powerpc: Rename exception.h to exception-64s.hBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The file include/asm/exception.h contains definitions that are specific to exception handling on 64-bit server type processors. This renames the file to exception-64s.h to reflect that fact and avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-18powerpc: Allow perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt timePaul Mackerras
This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access user memory in a PMU interrupt routine. Such an access can cause various kinds of interrupt: SLB miss, MMU hash table miss, segment table miss, or TLB miss, depending on the processor. This commit only deals with 64-bit classic/server processors, which use an MMU hash table. 32-bit processors are already able to access user memory at interrupt time. Since we don't soft-disable on 32-bit, we avoid the possibility of reentering hash_page or the TLB miss handlers, since they run with interrupts disabled. On 64-bit processors, an SLB miss interrupt on a user address will update the slb_cache and slb_cache_ptr fields in the paca. This is OK except in the case where a PMU interrupt occurs in switch_slb, which also accesses those fields. To prevent this, we hard-disable interrupts in switch_slb. Interrupts are already soft-disabled at this point, and will get hard-enabled when they get soft-enabled later. This also reworks slb_flush_and_rebolt: to avoid hard-disabling twice, and to make sure that it clears the slb_cache_ptr when called from other callers than switch_slb, the existing routine is renamed to __slb_flush_and_rebolt, which is called by switch_slb and the new version of slb_flush_and_rebolt. Similarly, switch_stab (used on POWER3 and RS64 processors) gets a hard_irq_disable() to protect the per-cpu variables used there and in ste_allocate. If a MMU hashtable miss interrupt occurs, normally we would call hash_page to look up the Linux PTE for the address and create a HPTE. However, hash_page is fairly complex and takes some locks, so to avoid the possibility of deadlock, we check the preemption count to see if we are in a (pseudo-)NMI handler, and if so, we don't call hash_page but instead treat it like a bad access that will get reported up through the exception table mechanism. An interrupt whose handler runs even though the interrupt occurred when soft-disabled (such as the PMU interrupt) is considered a pseudo-NMI handler, which should use nmi_enter()/nmi_exit() rather than irq_enter()/irq_exit(). Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-06-09powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.SBenjamin Herrenschmidt
To prepare for future support of Book3E 64-bit PowerPC processors, which use a completely different exception handling, we move that code to a new exceptions-64s.S file. This file is #included from head_64.S due to some of the absolute address requirements which can currently only be fulfilled from within that file. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>