linux/arch/powerpc/lib, branch v3.6

powerpc: Don't use __put_user() in patch_instruction

2012-09-05T06:05:23Z

patch_instruction() can be called very early on ppc32, when the kernel isn't yet running at it's linked address. That can cause the ! is_kernel_addr() test in __put_user() to trip and call might_sleep() which is very bad at that point during boot. Use a lower level function instead for now, at least until we get to rework ppc32 boot process to do the code patching later, like ppc64 does. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix VMX in interrupt check in POWER7 copy loops

2012-08-24T10:26:09Z

The enhanced prefetch hint patches corrupt the condition register that was used to check if we are in interrupt. Fix this by using cr1. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_user patch applied twice

2012-08-24T10:26:09Z

"powerpc: Use enhanced touch instructions in POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_user" was applied twice. Remove one. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Put the gpr save/restore functions in their own section

2012-07-11T04:19:59Z

This allows the linker to know that calls to them do not need to switch TOC and stop errors like the following when linking large configurations: powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: In function `.gpiochip_is_requested': (.text+0x4): sibling call optimization to `_savegpr0_29' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `_savegpr0_29' extern Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fixes for instructions not using correct register naming

2012-07-10T09:18:16Z

These macros are using integers where they could be using logical names since they take registers. We are going to enforce this soon, so fix these up now. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Change mtcrf to use real register names

2012-07-10T09:18:11Z

mtocrf define is just a wrapper around the real instructions so we can just use real register names here (ie. lower case). Also remove braces in macro so this is possible. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Merge STK_REG/PARAM/FRAMESIZE

2012-07-10T09:18:03Z

Merge the defines of STACKFRAMESIZE, STK_REG, STK_PARAM from different places. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix usage of register macros getting ready for %r0 change

2012-07-10T09:17:55Z

Anything that uses a constructed instruction (ie. from ppc-opcode.h), need to use the new R0 macro, as %r0 is not going to work. Also convert usages of macros where we are just determining an offset (usually for a load/store), like: std r14,STK_REG(r14)(r1) Can't use STK_REG(r14) as %r14 doesn't work in the STK_REG macro since it's just calculating an offset. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Optimise the 64bit optimised __clear_user

2012-07-03T04:14:48Z

I blame Mikey for this. He elevated my slightly dubious testcase: to benchmark status. And naturally we need to be number 1 at creating zeros. So lets improve __clear_user some more. As Paul suggests we can use dcbz for large lengths. This patch gets the destination cacheline aligned then uses dcbz on whole cachelines. Before: 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.414744 s, 25.3 GB/s After: 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.268597 s, 39.0 GB/s 39 GB/s, a new record. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Tested-by: Olof Johansson Acked-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: POWER7 optimised memcpy using VMX and enhanced prefetch

2012-07-03T04:14:46Z

Implement a POWER7 optimised memcpy using VMX and enhanced prefetch instructions. This is a copy of the POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user loop. Detailed implementation and performance details can be found in commit a66086b8197d (powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX). I noticed memcpy issues when profiling a RAID6 workload: .memcpy .async_memcpy .async_copy_data .__raid_run_ops .handle_stripe .raid5d .md_thread I created a simplified testcase by building a RAID6 array with 4 1GB ramdisks (booting with brd.rd_size=1048576): # mdadm -CR -e 1.2 /dev/md0 --level=6 -n4 /dev/ram[0-3] I then timed how long it took to write to the entire array: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1M Before: 892 MB/s After: 999 MB/s A 12% improvement. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt