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Michael Ellerman 6096f88451 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scottwood/linux into next
Freescale updates from Scott:

"Highlights include more 8xx optimizations, an e6500 hugetlb optimization,
QMan device tree nodes, t1024/t1023 support, and various fixes and
cleanup."
2015-06-19 17:23:48 +10:00
Sam bobroff b4b56f9eca powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported.  It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended.  It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-06-19 17:10:28 +10:00
LEROY Christophe 5b2753fc3e powerpc/8xx: Implementation of PAGE_EXEC
This patch implements PAGE_EXEC capability on the 8xx.

All pages PP exec bits are set to 000, which means Execute for
Supervisor and no Execute for User.
Then we use the APG to say whether accesses are according to Page
rules, "all Supervisor" rules (Exec for all) and
"all User" rules (Exec for noone)

Therefore, we define 4 APG groups. msb is _PAGE_EXEC,
lsb is _PAGE_USER. MI_AP is initialised as follows:
GP0 (00) => Not User, no exec => 11 (all accesses performed as user)
GP1 (01) => User but no exec => 11 (all accesses performed as user)
GP2 (10) => Not User, exec => 01 (rights according to page definition)
GP3 (11) => User, exec => 00 (all accesses performed as supervisor)

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[scottwood: comments: s/exec/data/ on data side, and s/pages/pages'/]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2015-06-02 21:37:28 -05:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar 45706bb53d powerpc/book3s: Fix flush_tlb cpu_spec hook to take a generic argument.
The flush_tlb hook in cpu_spec was introduced as a generic function hook
to invalidate TLBs. But the current implementation of flush_tlb hook
takes IS (invalidation selector) as an argument which is architecture
dependent. Hence, It is not right to have a generic routine where caller
has to pass non-generic argument.

This patch fixes this and makes flush_tlb hook as high level API.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-03-17 07:52:48 +11:00
Michael Ellerman ed77d4182b powerpc: Remove unused CPU_FTR_IABR
We removed the last usage of CPU_FTR_IABR in commit 1ad7d70562
"powerpc/xmon: Enable HW instruction breakpoint on POWER8".

Mark it as free.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-01-23 14:02:50 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 90029640fd powerpc: Remove unused CPU_FTRS_A2
In commit fb5a515704 "Remove platforms/wsp and associated pieces" we
removed the last user of CPU_FTRS_A2, so we should remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-11-10 09:59:29 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 66f3d4fe0b powerpc: Remove CPU_FTR_HVMODE from CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS
We potentially clear CPU_FTR_HVMODE at runtime in __init_hvmode_206(),
so we must make sure it's not set in CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS.

This doesn't hurt us in practice at the moment, because we don't support
compiling only for CPUs that support CPU_FTR_HVMODE.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-11-10 09:59:29 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 3609e09fd8 powerpc: Add POWER8 features to CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE/ALWAYS
We have been a bit slack about updating the CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE and
CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS masks. When we added POWER8, and also POWER8E we forgot
to update the ALWAYS mask. And when we added POWER8_DD1 we forgot to
update both the POSSIBLE and ALWAYS masks.

Luckily this hasn't caused any actual bugs AFAICS. Failing to update the
ALWAYS mask just forgoes a potential optimisation opportunity. Failing
to update the POSSIBLE mask for POWER8_DD1 is also OK because it only
removes a bit rather than adding any.

Regardless they should all be in both masks so as to avoid any future
bugs when the set of ALWAYS/POSSIBLE bits changes, or the masks
themselves change.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-08-13 15:13:43 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 9287b95ec9 Merge remote-tracking branch 'scott/next' into next
Scott writes:

Highlights include e6500 hardware threading support, an e6500 TLB erratum
workaround, corenet error reporting, support for a new board, and some
minor fixes.
2014-08-05 14:13:41 +10:00
Andy Fleming e16c876553 powerpc/e6500: Add support for hardware threads
The general idea is that each core will release all of its
threads into the secondary thread startup code, which will
eventually wait in the secondary core holding area, for the
appropriate bit in the PACA to be set. The kick_cpu function
pointer will set that bit in the PACA, and thus "release"
the core/thread to boot. We also need to do a few things that
U-Boot normally does for CPUs (like enable branch prediction).

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
[scottwood@freescale.com: various changes, including only enabling
 threads if Linux wants to kick them]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2014-07-29 19:26:20 -05:00
Michael Ellerman 1e07a0a033 powerpc: Remove CLASSIC_PPC
We have a strange #define in cputable.h called CLASSIC_PPC.

Although it is defined for 32 & 64bit, it's only used for 32bit and
it's basically a duplicate of CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32, so let's use
the latter.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-07-28 14:11:22 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 804ece07e9 powerpc: Remove CONFIG_POWER4
Although the name CONFIG_POWER4 suggests that it controls support for
power4 cpus, this symbol is actually misnamed.

It is a historical wart from the powermac code, which used to support
building a 32-bit kernel for power4. CONFIG_POWER4 was used in that
context to guard code that was 64-bit only.

In the powermac code we can just use CONFIG_PPC64 instead, and in other
places it is a synonym for CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-07-28 14:10:26 +10:00
Michael Ellerman c3993f1007 powerpc: Remove CONFIG_POWER3
Now that we have dropped power3 support we can remove CONFIG_POWER3. The
usage in pgtable_32.c was already dead code as CONFIG_POWER3 was not
selectable on PPC32.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-07-28 14:10:24 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 13b3d13b81 powerpc: Remove MMU_FTR_SLB
We now only support cpus that use an SLB, so we don't need an MMU
feature to indicate that.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-07-28 14:10:23 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 468a33028e powerpc: Drop support for pre-POWER4 cpus
We inadvertently broke power3 support back in 3.4 with commit
f5339277eb "powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code".
No one noticed until at least 3.9.

By then we'd also broken it with the optimised memcpy, copy_to/from_user
and clear_user routines. We don't want to add any more complexity to
those just to support ancient cpus, so it seems like it's a good time to
drop support for power3 and earlier.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-07-28 14:09:23 +10:00
Joel Stanley bd6ba3518f powerpc: Disable doorbells on Power8 DD1.x
These processors do not currently support doorbell IPIs, so remove them
from the feature list if we are at DD 1.xx for the 0x004d part.

This fixes a regression caused by d4e58e5928 (powerpc/powernv: Enable
POWER8 doorbell IPIs). With that patch the kernel would hang at boot
when calling smp_call_function_many, as the doorbell would not be
received by the target CPUs:

  .smp_call_function_many+0x2bc/0x3c0 (unreliable)
  .on_each_cpu_mask+0x30/0x100
  .cpuidle_register_driver+0x158/0x1a0
  .cpuidle_register+0x2c/0x110
  .powernv_processor_idle_init+0x23c/0x2c0
  .do_one_initcall+0xd4/0x260
  .kernel_init_freeable+0x25c/0x33c
  .kernel_init+0x1c/0x120
  .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x58/0x7c

Fixes: d4e58e5928 (powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs)
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-07-22 15:55:24 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 68f2f0d431 powerpc: Add a cpu feature CPU_FTR_PMAO_BUG
Some power8 revisions have a hardware bug where we can lose a
Performance Monitor (PMU) exception under certain circumstances.

We will be adding a workaround for this case, see the next commit for
details. The observed behaviour is that writing PMAO doesn't cause an
exception as we would expect, hence the name of the feature.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-03-24 09:48:24 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar 0440705049 powerpc/book3s: Add flush_tlb operation in cpu_spec.
This patch introduces flush_tlb operation in cpu_spec structure. This will
help us to invoke appropriate CPU-side flush tlb routine. This patch
adds the foundation to invoke CPU specific flush routine for respective
architectures. Currently this patch introduce flush_tlb for p7 and p8.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-12-05 16:04:38 +11:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar 4c703416ef powerpc/book3s: Introduce a early machine check hook in cpu_spec.
This patch adds the early machine check function pointer in cputable for
CPU specific early machine check handling. The early machine handle routine
will be called in real mode to handle SLB and TLB errors. We can not reuse
the existing machine_check hook because it is always invoked in kernel
virtual mode and we would already be in trouble if we get SLB or TLB errors.
This patch just sets up a mechanism to invoke CPU specific handler. The
subsequent patches will populate the function pointer.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-12-05 16:04:37 +11:00
Scott Wood d52459ca30 powerpc/fsl-booke: Work around erratum A-006958
Erratum A-006598 says that 64-bit mftb is not atomic -- it's subject
to a similar race condition as doing mftbu/mftbl on 32-bit.  The lower
half of timebase is updated before the upper half; thus, we can share
the workaround for a similar bug on Cell.  This workaround involves
looping if the lower half of timebase is zero, thus avoiding the need
for a scratch register (other than CR0).  This workaround must be
avoided when the timebase is frozen, such as during the timebase sync
code.

This deals with kernel and vdso accesses, but other userspace accesses
will of course need to be fixed elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2013-08-20 15:45:49 -05:00
Michael Neuling 82a9f16adc powerpc/hw_breakpoints: Add DABRX cpu feature to fix 32-bit regression
When introducing support for DABRX in 4474ef0, we broke older 32-bit CPUs
that don't have that register.

Some CPUs have a DABR but not DABRX.  Configuration are:
- No 32bit CPUs have DABRX but some have DABR.
- POWER4+ and below have the DABR but no DABRX.
- 970 and POWER5 and above have DABR and DABRX.
- POWER8 has DAWR, hence no DABRX.

This introduces CPU_FTR_DABRX and sets it on appropriate CPUs.  We use
the top 64 bits for CPU FTR bits since only 64 bit CPUs have this.

Processors that don't have the DABRX will still work as they will fall
back to software filtering these breakpoints via perf_exclude_event().

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reported-by: "Gorelik, Jacob (335F)" <jacob.gorelik@jpl.nasa.gov>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.9 only)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-10 08:36:29 +10:00
Nishanth Aravamudan cbbc6f1b14 powerpc/cputable: Reserve bits in HWCAP2 for new features
Also, make HTM's presence dependent on the .config option.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-05-06 09:25:38 +10:00
Michael Ellerman 1de2bd4e0c powerpc: Replace CPU_FTR_BCTAR with CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S
We are getting low on cpu feature bits. So rather than add a separate bit for
every new Power8 feature, add a bit for arch 2.07 server catagory and use that
instead.

Hijack the value we had for BCTAR, but swap the value with CFAR so that all the
ARCH defines are together.

Note we don't touch CPU_FTR_TM, because it is conditionally enabled if
the kernel is built with TM support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-05-02 10:35:16 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt bc23100a0d Merge remote-tracking branch 'kumar/next' into next
From Kumar Gala:
<<
Add support for T4 and B4 SoC families from Freescale, e6500 altivec
support, some various board fixes and other minor cleanups.
>>
2013-04-30 11:10:09 +10:00
Michael Neuling 2171364d1a powerpc: Add HWCAP2 aux entry
We are currently out of free bits in AT_HWCAP. With POWER8, we have
several hardware features that we need to advertise.

Tested on POWER and x86.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <michael@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-04-26 16:08:16 +10:00
Kumar Gala cd66cc2ee5 powerpc/85xx: Add AltiVec support for e6500
The e6500 core adds support for AltiVec on a Book-E class processor.
Connect up all the various exception handling code and build config
mechanisms to allow user spaces apps to utilize AltiVec.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-03-12 15:59:26 -05:00
Michael Neuling b9eaee5a8a powerpc: Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-02-15 17:02:24 +11:00
Michael Neuling 6a6d541f33 powerpc: Add new CPU feature bit for transactional memory
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-02-15 16:58:49 +11:00
Ian Munsie 2468dcf641 powerpc: Add support for context switching the TAR register
This patch adds support for enabling and context switching the Target
Address Register in Power8. The TAR is a new special purpose register
that can be used for computed branches with the bctar[l] (branch
conditional to TAR) instruction in the same manner as the count and link
registers.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-02-08 14:05:50 +11:00
Michael Neuling 79879c17d4 powerpc: Add DAWR CPU feature bit definition
.. and add it to POWER8 cpu features.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:01:39 +11:00
Michael Neuling 1580b3b873 powerpc: Repack 64bit CPU features to remove holes
This frees up 7 bits for crazy new CPU features.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:01:33 +11:00
Michael Neuling cde4d494af powerpc: Remove extra zeros from 32 bit CPU features definitions
These are 32 bit, so no need to have a bunch of wasted 0s.

The 0s saved here can be put to better use elsewhere, like at the end of my pay
check.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:01:30 +11:00
Haren Myneni d261386852 powerpc: Enable PPR save/restore
[PATCH 2/6] powerpc: Enable PPR save/restore

SMT thread status register (PPR) is used to set thread priority. This patch
enables PPR save/restore feature (CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR) on POWER7 and POWER8 systems.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:01:02 +11:00
Ian Munsie e5e84f0a66 powerpc: Hook up doorbells on server
This patch actually hooks up doorbell interrupts on POWER8:

- Select the PPC_DOORBELL Kconfig option from PPC_PSERIES

- Add the doorbell CPU feature bit to POWER8

- We define a new pSeries_cause_ipi_mux() function that issues a
  doorbell interrupt if the recipient is another thread within the same
  core as the sender. If the recipient is in a different core it falls
  back to using XICS to deliver the IPI as before.

- During pSeries_smp_probe() at boot, we check if doorbell interrupts
  are supported. If they are we set the cause_ipi function pointer to
  the above mentioned function, otherwise we leave it as whichever XICS
  cause_ipi function was determined by xics_smp_probe().

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 15:09:08 +11:00
Michael Neuling 71e1849724 powerpc: POWER8 cputable entry
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-11-15 13:00:45 +11:00
David Howells c3617f7203 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-09 09:47:26 +01:00
Michael Neuling f0f0c9ac20 powerpc: Remove unnecessary ifdefs
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-08-24 20:26:06 +10:00
Scott Wood 9de6fe91af KVM: PPC: add CPU_FTR_EMB_HV to CPU table
e6500 support (commit 10241842fb,
"powerpc: Add initial e6500 cpu support" and the introduction of
CPU_FTR_EMB_HV (commit 73196cd364,
"KVM: PPC: e500mc support") collided during merge, leaving e6500's CPU
table entry missing CPU_FTR_EMB_HV.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-04-11 22:00:48 -03:00
Scott Wood 73196cd364 KVM: PPC: e500mc support
Add processor support for e500mc, using hardware virtualization support
(GS-mode).

Current issues include:
 - No support for external proxy (coreint) interrupt mode in the guest.

Includes work by Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com>,
Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com>, and
Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-04-08 12:54:33 +03:00
Scott Wood 06aae86799 powerpc/e500: split CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS/CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE
Split e500 (v1/v2) and e500mc/e5500 to allow optimization of feature
checks that differ between the two.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-04-08 12:50:54 +03:00
Scott Wood 52b066fa4e powerpc/booke: Set CPU_FTR_DEBUG_LVL_EXC on 32-bit
Currently 32-bit only cares about this for choice of exception
vector, which is done in core-specific code.  However, KVM will
want to distinguish as well.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-04-08 12:50:31 +03:00
Kumar Gala 10241842fb powerpc: Add initial e6500 cpu support
Add basic support for e6500 core in its single threaded mode.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-03-15 12:12:21 -05:00
Anton Blanchard a66086b819 powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX
Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX.
For large aligned copies this new loop is over 10% faster, and for
large unaligned copies it is over 200% faster.

If we take a fault we fall back to the old version, this keeps
things relatively simple and easy to verify.

On POWER7 unaligned stores rarely slow down - they only flush when
a store crosses a 4KB page boundary. Furthermore this flush is
handled completely in hardware and should be 20-30 cycles.

Unaligned loads on the other hand flush much more often - whenever
crossing a 128 byte cache line, or a 32 byte sector if either sector
is an L1 miss.

Considering this information we really want to get the loads aligned
and not worry about the alignment of the stores. Microbenchmarks
confirm that this approach is much faster than the current unaligned
copy loop that uses shifts and rotates to ensure both loads and
stores are aligned.

We also want to try and do the stores in cacheline aligned, cacheline
sized chunks. If the store queue is unable to merge an entire
cacheline of stores then the L2 cache will have to do a
read/modify/write. Even worse, we will serialise this with the stores
in the next iteration of the copy loop since both iterations hit
the same cacheline.

Based on this, the new loop does the following things:

1 - 127 bytes
Get the source 8 byte aligned and use 8 byte loads and stores. Pretty
boring and similar to how the current loop works.

128 - 4095 bytes
Get the source 8 byte aligned and use 8 byte loads and stores,
1 cacheline at a time. We aren't doing the stores in cacheline
aligned chunks so we will potentially serialise once per cacheline.
Even so it is much better than the loop we have today.

4096 - bytes
If both source and destination have the same alignment get them both
16 byte aligned, then get the destination cacheline aligned. Do
cacheline sized loads and stores using VMX.

If source and destination do not have the same alignment, we get the
destination cacheline aligned, and use permute to do aligned loads.

In both cases the VMX loop should be optimal - we always do aligned
loads and stores and are always doing stores in cacheline aligned,
cacheline sized chunks.

To be able to use VMX we must be careful about interrupts and
sleeping. We don't use the VMX loop when in an interrupt (which should
be rare anyway) and we wrap the VMX loop in disable/enable_pagefault
and fall back to the existing copy_tofrom_user loop if we do need to
sleep.

The VMX breakpoint of 4096 bytes was chosen using this microbenchmark:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c

Since we are using VMX and there is a cost to saving and restoring
the user VMX state there are two broad cases we need to benchmark:

- Best case - userspace never uses VMX

- Worst case - userspace always uses VMX

In reality a userspace process will sit somewhere between these two
extremes. Since we need to test both aligned and unaligned copies we
end up with 4 combinations. The point at which the VMX loop begins to
win is:

0% VMX
aligned		2048 bytes
unaligned	2048 bytes

100% VMX
aligned		16384 bytes
unaligned	8192 bytes

Considering this is a microbenchmark, the data is hot in cache and
the VMX loop has better store queue merging properties we set the
breakpoint to 4096 bytes, a little below the unaligned breakpoints.

Some future optimisations we can look at:

- Looking at the perf data, a significant part of the cost when a
  task is always using VMX is the extra exception we take to restore
  the VMX state. As such we should do something similar to the x86
  optimisation that restores FPU state for heavy users. ie:

        /*
         * If the task has used fpu the last 5 timeslices, just do a full
         * restore of the math state immediately to avoid the trap; the
         * chances of needing FPU soon are obviously high now
         */
        preload_fpu = tsk_used_math(next_p) && next_p->fpu_counter > 5;

  and

        /*
         * fpu_counter contains the number of consecutive context switches
         * that the FPU is used. If this is over a threshold, the lazy fpu
         * saving becomes unlazy to save the trap. This is an unsigned char
         * so that after 256 times the counter wraps and the behavior turns
         * lazy again; this to deal with bursty apps that only use FPU for
         * a short time
         */

- We could create a paca bit to mirror the VMX enabled MSR bit and check
  that first, avoiding multiple calls to calling enable_kernel_altivec.
  That should help with iovec based system calls like readv.

- We could have two VMX breakpoints, one for when we know the user VMX
  state is loaded into the registers and one when it isn't. This could
  be a second bit in the paca so we can calculate the break points quickly.

- One suggestion from Ben was to save and restore the VSX registers
  we use inline instead of using enable_kernel_altivec.

[BenH: Fixed a problem with preempt and fixed build without CONFIG_ALTIVEC]

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-12-19 14:40:40 +11:00
Jimi Xenidis fac26ad4f9 powerpc/book3e: Add ICSWX/ACOP support to Book3e cores like A2
ICSWX is also used by the A2 processor to access coprocessors,
although not all "chips" that contain A2s have coprocessors.

Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-11-25 14:11:28 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 969391c58a powerpc, KVM: Split HVMODE_206 cpu feature bit into separate HV and architecture bits
This replaces the single CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206 bit with two bits, one to
indicate that we have a usable hypervisor mode, and another to indicate
that the processor conforms to PowerISA version 2.06.  We also add
another bit to indicate that the processor conforms to ISA version 2.01
and set that for PPC970 and derivatives.

Some PPC970 chips (specifically those in Apple machines) have a
hypervisor mode in that MSR[HV] is always 1, but the hypervisor mode
is not useful in the sense that there is no way to run any code in
supervisor mode (HV=0 PR=0).  On these processors, the LPES0 and LPES1
bits in HID4 are always 0, and we use that as a way of detecting that
hypervisor mode is not useful.

Where we have a feature section in assembly code around code that
only applies on POWER7 in hypervisor mode, we use a construct like

END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)

The definition of END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET is such that the code will
be enabled (not overwritten with nops) only if all bits in the
provided mask are set.

Note that the CPU feature check in __tlbie() only needs to check the
ARCH_206 bit, not the HVMODE bit, because __tlbie() can only get called
if we are running bare-metal, i.e. in hypervisor mode.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:58 +03:00
Kumar Gala d36b4c4f3c powerpc/fsl-booke64: Add support for Debug Level exception handler
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-19 00:36:42 -05:00
Paul Mackerras 48404f2e95 powerpc: Save Come-From Address Register (CFAR) in exception frame
Recent 64-bit server processors (POWER6 and POWER7) have a "Come-From
Address Register" (CFAR), that records the address of the most recent
branch or rfid (return from interrupt) instruction for debugging purposes.

This saves the value of the CFAR in the exception entry code and stores
it in the exception frame.  We also make xmon print the CFAR value in
its register dump code.

Rather than extend the pt_regs struct at this time, we steal the orig_gpr3
field, which is only used for system calls, and use it for the CFAR value
for all exceptions/interrupts other than system calls.  This means we
don't save the CFAR on system calls, which is not a great problem since
system calls tend not to happen unexpectedly, and also avoids adding the
overhead of reading the CFAR to the system call entry path.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-04 15:22:09 +10:00
Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin 851d2e2fe8 powerpc: Add Initiate Coprocessor Store Word (icswx) support
Icswx is a PowerPC instruction to send data to a co-processor. On Book-S
processors the LPAR_ID and process ID (PID) of the owning process are
registered in the window context of the co-processor at initialization
time. When the icswx instruction is executed the L2 generates a cop-reg
transaction on PowerBus. The transaction has no address and the
processor does not perform an MMU access to authenticate the transaction.
The co-processor compares the LPAR_ID and the PID included in the
transaction and the LPAR_ID and PID held in the window context to
determine if the process is authorized to generate the transaction.

The OS needs to assign a 16-bit PID for the process. This cop-PID needs
to be updated during context switch. The cop-PID needs to be destroyed
when the context is destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin <thlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-04 15:19:26 +10:00
Matt Evans 44ae3ab335 powerpc: Free up some CPU feature bits by moving out MMU-related features
Some of the 64bit PPC CPU features are MMU-related, so this patch moves
them to MMU_FTR_ bits.  All cpu_has_feature()-style tests are moved to
mmu_has_feature(), and seven feature bits are freed as a result.

Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-27 14:18:52 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 76b4eda866 powerpc: Add A2 cpu support
Add the cputable entry, regs and setup & restore entries for
the PowerPC A2 core.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-27 13:02:02 +10:00