Commit c1a0e9bc88 ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to be changed")
added Kconfig entries allowing for the compact branch policy used by the
compiler for MIPSr6 kernels to be specified. This can be useful for
debugging, particularly in systems where compact branches have recently
been introduced.
Unfortunately mainline gcc 5.x supports MIPSr6 but not the
-mcompact-branches compiler flag, leading to MIPSr6 kernels failing to
build with gcc 5.x with errors such as:
mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mcompact-branches=optimal'
make[2]: *** [kernel/bounds.s] Error 1
Fixing this by hiding the Kconfig entry behind another seems to be more
hassle than it's worth, as MIPSr6 & compact branches have been around
for a while now and if policy does need to be set for debug it can be
done easily enough with KCFLAGS. Therefore remove the compact branch
policy Kconfig entries & their handling in the Makefile.
This reverts commit c1a0e9bc88 ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to
be changed").
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Fixes: c1a0e9bc88 ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to be changed")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14241/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Provide support for outputting early debug information, in the form of
various register values should an exception occur, during the early
bringup of secondary cores. This code requires an ns16550-compatible
UART accessible from the secondary core, and is written in assembly due
to the environment in which such early exceptions occur where way may
not have a stack, be coherent or even have initialised caches.
[ralf@linux-mips.org: Fix merge conflict.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11202/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
When debugging or examining the performance of a system it can be useful
to examine the effect of L2 prefetching. Provide an optional debugfs
entry to allow a user to enable or disable L2 prefetching.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11182/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
When debugging it can be helpful to change the policy for compiler use
of MIPSr6 compact branches, in order to rule out or home in on their
involvement in bugs. Allow the GCC -mcompact-branches= flag to be set
via Kconfig under the "Kernel hacking" menu.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11178/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The previous implementation did not cover all possible FPU combinations
and it silently allowed ABI incompatible objects to be loaded with the
wrong ABI. For example, the previous logic would set the FP_64 ABI as
the matching ABI for an FP_XX object combined with an FP_64A object.
This was wrong, and the matching ABI should have been FP_64A.
The previous logic is now replaced with a new one which determines
the appropriate FPU mode to be used rather than the FP ABI. This has
the advantage that the entire logic is much simpler since it is the FPU
mode we are interested in rather than the FP ABI resulting to code
simplifications. This also removes the now obsolete FP32XX_HYBRID_FPRS
option.
Cc: Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
The hybrid FPR scheme exists to allow for compatibility between existing
FP32 code and newly compiled FP64A code. Such code should hopefully be
rare in the real world, and for the moment is difficult to come across.
All code except that built for the FP64 ABI can correctly execute using
the hybrid FPR scheme, so debugging the hybrid FPR implementation can
be eased by forcing all such code to use it. This is undesirable in
general due to the trap & emulate overhead of the hybrid FPR
implementation, but is a very useful option to have for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7680/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com> is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.
Based on Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com> patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This can happen if both the generic 8250 and another early console
driver are enable. Fixed by using an auxilliary kconfig symbol to
restrict that choice.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Original posting:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184202.F54094D9@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
Several architectures have similar stack debugging config options.
They all pretty much do the same thing, some with slightly
differing help text.
This patch changes the architectures to instead enable a Kconfig
boolean, and then use that boolean in the generic Kconfig.debug
to present the actual menu option. This removes a bunch of
duplication and adds consistency across arches.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [for tile]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most arches define CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE exactly the same way. Move it
to lib/Kconfig.debug so each arch doesn't have to define it. This
obviously makes the option generic, but that's fine because the config is
already used in generic code.
It's not obvious to me that sysrq-P actually does anything caution by
keeping the most inclusive wording.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is just a test program for raw_spinlocks. The main reason I
wrote it is to validate my spinlock changes that I sent in a previous
patch.
To use it enable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS and CONFIG_SPINLOCK_TEST then at run
time do:
# mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_single
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_multi
On my 600MHz octeon cn5860 (16 CPUs) I get
spin_single spin_multi
base 106885 247941
spinlock_patch 75194 219465
This shows that for uncontended locks the spinlock patch gives 41%
improvement and for contended locks 12% improvement (1/time).
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/969/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch adds a new DEBUG_ZBOOT option to allow the users to enable it
to debug the compressed kernel support for a new board and this optoin
should be disabled to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the
kernel booting procedure when the compressed kernel support is stable.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/918/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Currently, MIPS kernels silently overwrite kernel command-line parameters
hardcoded in CONFIG_CMDLINE by the ones received from firmware. Therefore,
using firmware remains the only reliable method to transfer the
command-line parameters, which is not always desirable or convenient, and
the CONFIG_CMDLINE option is thereby effectively rendered useless.
This patch fixes the problem described above and introduces a more flexible
scheme of handling the kernel command line, in a manner identical to what is
currently used for x86. The default behavior, i.e. when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
is not defined, retains the existing semantics, and firmware command-line
arguments override the hardcoded ones.
[Ralf: I fixed up all the defconfig files so the stay unaffected by this
change.]
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/689/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The header path in the help text for the RUNTIME_DEBUG config option is
obsolete and needs to be updated to match the new location of
architecture-specific header files. While at it, fix the spelling mistake.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch explicitly removes the kgdb implementation, for mips which
is intended to be followed by a patch that adds a kgdb implementation
for MIPS that makes use of the kgdb core in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Slightly tacky, but there is a precedent in the sparc archirecture code.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Ralf Baechle