Provides basic enablement for perf branch stack sampling framework on
POWER8 processor based platforms. Adds new BHRB related elements into
cpu_hw_event structure to represent current BHRB config, BHRB filter
configuration, manage context and to hold output BHRB buffer during
PMU interrupt before passing to the user space. This also enables
processing of BHRB data and converts them into generic perf branch
stack data format.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch populates BHRB specific data for power_pmu structure. It
also implements POWER8 specific BHRB filter and configuration functions.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds couple of generic functions to power_pmu structure
which would configure the BHRB and it's filters. It also adds
representation of the number of BHRB entries present on the PMU.
A new PMU flag PPMU_BHRB would indicate presence of BHRB feature.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds the basic assembly code to read BHRB buffer. BHRB entries
are valid only after a PMU interrupt has happened (when MMCR0[PMAO]=1)
and BHRB has been freezed. BHRB read should not be attempted when it is
still enabled (MMCR0[PMAE]=1) and getting updated, as this can produce
non-deterministic results.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds new POWER8 instruction encoding for reading
and clearing Branch History Rolling Buffer entries. The new
instruction 'mfbhrbe' (move from branch history rolling buffer
entry) is used to read BHRB buffer entries and instruction
'clrbhrb' (clear branch history rolling buffer) is used to
clear the entire buffer. The instruction 'clrbhrb' has straight
forward encoding. But the instruction encoding format for
reading the BHRB entries is like 'mfbhrbe RT, BHRBE' where it
takes two arguments, i.e the index for the BHRB buffer entry to
read and a general purpose register to put the value which was
read from the buffer entry.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds support for the power8 PMU to perf.
Work is ongoing to add generic cache events.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 we have a new SIER (Sampled Instruction Event Register), which
captures information about instructions when we have random sampling
enabled.
Add support for loading the SIER into pt_regs, overloading regs->dar.
Also set the new NO_SIPR flag in regs->result if we don't have SIPR.
Update regs_sihv/sipr() to look for SIPR/SIHV in SIER.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 the presence or absence of SIPR depends on settings at runtime,
so convert to using a dynamic flag for NO_SIPR. Existing backends that
set NO_SIPR unconditionally set the dynamic flag obviously.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add an accessor for regs->result so we can use it to store more flags in
future.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 the SIPR and SIHV are not in MMCRA, so convert the routines
to take regs and change the names accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In perf_ip_adjust() we potentially use the MMCRA[SLOT] field to adjust
the reported IP of a sampled instruction.
Currently the logic is written so that if the backend does NOT have
the PPMU_ALT_SIPR flag set then we assume MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
However on power8 we do not want to set ALT_SIPR (it's in a third
location), and we also do not have MMCRA[SLOT].
So add a new flag which only indicates whether MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
Naively we'd set it on everything except power6/7, because they set
ALT_SIPR, and we've reversed the polarity of the flag. But it's more
complicated than that.
mpc7450 is 32-bit, and uses its own version of perf_ip_adjust()
which doesn't use MMCRA[SLOT], so it doesn't need the new flag set and
the behaviour is unchanged.
PPC970 (and I assume power4) don't have MMCRA[SLOT], so shouldn't have
the new flag set. This is a behaviour change on those cpus, though we
were probably getting lucky and the bits in question were 0.
power5 and power5+ set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
power6 & power7 do not set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
For both HV and guest kernels, intialise PMU regs to something sane.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Ben found the root cause. Commit 37f02195be
("powerpc/pci: fix PCI-e devices rescan issue on powerpc platform")
overwrites the IOMMU table of PCI device while enabling PCI device.
The patch intends to fix the IOMMU table after that point.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The patch intends to build 32-bits DMA space for individual PEs on
PHB3. The TVE# is recognized by the combo of PE# and fixed bits
from DMA address, which is zero for 32-bits DMA space.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The TCE should be invalidated while it's created or free'd. The
approach to do that for IODA1 and IODA2 compliant PHBs are different.
So the patch differentiate them with different functions called to
do that for IODA1 and IODA2 compliant PHBs. It's notable that the
PCI address is used to invalidate the corresponding TCE on IODA2
compliant PHB3.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The EOI handler of MSI/MSI-X interrupts for P8 (PHB3) need additional
steps to handle the P/Q bits in IVE before EOIing the corresponding
interrupt. The patch changes the EOI handler to cover that. we have
individual IRQ chip in each PHB instance. During the MSI IRQ setup
time, the IRQ chip is copied over from the original one for that IRQ,
and the EOI handler is patched with the one that will handle the P/Q
bits (As Ben suggested).
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
As Michael Ellerman suggested, to add CONFIG_POWERNV_MSI for PowerNV
platform. That's similar to CONFIG_PSERIES_MSI for pSeries platform.
For now, we don't make it dependent on CONFIG_EEH since it's not ready
to enable that yet.
Apart from that, we also enable CONFIG_PPC_MSI_BITMAP on selecting
CONFIG_POWERNV_MSI.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The patch intends to initialize PHB3 during system boot stage. The
flag "PNV_PHB_MODEL_PHB3" is introduced to differentiate IODA2
compatible PHB3 from other types of PHBs.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Building a 64-bit powerpc kernel with PR KVM enabled currently gives
this error:
AS arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:258: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o] Error 1
This happens because the MASKABLE_EXCEPTION_PSERIES macro turns into
33 instructions, but we only have space for 32 at the decrementer
interrupt vector (from 0x900 to 0x980).
In the code generated by the MASKABLE_EXCEPTION_PSERIES macro, we
currently have two instances of the HMT_MEDIUM macro, which has the
effect of setting the SMT thread priority to medium. One is the
first instruction, and is overwritten by a no-op on processors where
we save the PPR (processor priority register), that is, POWER7 or
later. The other is after we have saved the PPR.
In order to reduce the code at 0x900 by one instruction, we omit the
first HMT_MEDIUM. On processors without SMT this will have no effect
since HMT_MEDIUM is a no-op there. On POWER5 and RS64 machines this
will mean that the first few instructions take a little longer in the
case where a decrementer interrupt occurs when the hardware thread is
running at low SMT priority. On POWER6 and later machines, the
hardware automatically boosts the thread priority when a decrementer
interrupt is taken if the thread priority was below medium, so this
change won't make any difference.
The alternative would be to branch out of line after saving the CFAR.
However, that would incur an extra overhead on all processors, whereas
the approach adopted here only adds overhead on older threaded processors.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
There are instances in which we do not want topology updates to occur.
In order to allow this a /proc interface (/proc/powerpc/topology_updates)
is introduced so that topology updates can be enabled and disabled.
This patch also adds a prrn_is_enabled() call so that PRRN events are
handled in the kernel only if topology updating is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Linux kernel and platform firmware negotiate their mutual support
of the PRRN option via the ibm,client-architecture-support interface.
This patch simply sets the appropriate fields in the client architecture
vector to indicate Linux support for PRRN and will allow the firmware to
report PRRN events via the RTAS event-scan mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The new PRRN firmware feature provides a more convenient and event-driven
interface than VPHN for notifying Linux of changes to the NUMA affinity of
platform resources. However, for practical reasons, it may not be feasible
for some customers to update to the latest firmware. For these customers,
the VPHN feature supported on previous firmware versions may still be the
best option.
The VPHN feature was previously disabled due to races with the load
balancing code when accessing the NUMA cpu maps, but the new stop_machine()
approach protects the NUMA cpu maps from these concurrent accesses. It
should be safe to re-enable this feature now.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The following patch adds vdso_getcpu_init(), which stores the NUMA node for
a cpu in SPRG3:
Commit 18ad51dd34 ("powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpu") adds
vdso_getcpu_init(), which stores the NUMA node for a cpu in SPRG3.
This patch ensures that this information is also updated when the NUMA
affinity of a cpu changes.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The new PRRN firmware feature allows CPU and memory resources to be
transparently reassigned across NUMA boundaries. When this happens, the
kernel must update the node maps to reflect the new affinity information.
Although the NUMA maps can be protected by locking primitives during the
update itself, this is insufficient to prevent concurrent accesses to these
structures. Since cpumask_of_node() hands out a pointer to these
structures, they can still be modified outside of the lock. Furthermore,
tracking down each usage of these pointers and adding locks would be quite
invasive and difficult to maintain.
The approach used is to make a list of affected cpus and call stop_machine
to have the update routine run on each of the affected cpus allowing them
to update themselves. Each cpu finds itself in the list of cpus and makes
the appropriate updates. We need to have each cpu do this for themselves to
handle calls to vdso_getcpu_init() added in a subsequent patch.
Situations like these are best handled using stop_machine(). Since the NUMA
affinity updates are exceptionally rare events, this approach has the
benefit of not adding any overhead while accessing the NUMA maps during
normal operation.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Platform events such as partition migration or the new PRRN firmware
feature can cause the NUMA characteristics of a CPU to change, and these
changes will be reflected in the device tree nodes for the affected
CPUs.
This patch registers a handler for Open Firmware device tree updates
and reconfigures the CPU and node maps whenever the associativity
changes. Currently, this is accomplished by marking the affected CPUs in
the cpu_associativity_changes_mask and allowing
arch_update_cpu_topology() to retrieve the new associativity information
using hcall_vphn().
Protecting the NUMA cpu maps from concurrent access during an update
operation will be addressed in a subsequent patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Update the numa code to use the updated firmware_has_feature() when checking
for type 1 affinity.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The firmware_has_feature() function makes it easy to check for supported
features of the hypervisor. This patch extends the capability of
firmware_has_feature() to include checking for specified bits
in vector 5 of the architecture vector as reported in the device tree.
As part of this the #defines used for the architecture vector are re-defined
such that each option has the index into vector 5 and the feature bit encoded
into it. This makes checking for architecture bits when initiating data
for firmware_has_feature much easier.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When iterating over the entries in firmware_features_table we only need
to go over the actual number of entries in the array instead of declaring
it to be bigger and checking to make sure there is a valid entry in every
slot.
This patch removes the FIRMWARE_MAX_FEATURES #define and replaces the
array looping with the use of ARRAY_SIZE().
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
As part of handling of PRRN events we need to check vector 5 of the
architecture vector bits reported in the device tree to ensure PRRN event
handling is enabled. To do this firmware_has_feature() is updated (in a
subsequent patch) to make this check vector 5 bits. To avoid having to
re-define bits in the architecture vector the bit definitions are moved
to prom.h.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
A PRRN event is signaled via the RTAS event-scan mechanism, which
returns a Hot Plug Event message "fixed part" indicating "Platform
Resource Reassignment". In response to the Hot Plug Event message,
we must call ibm,update-nodes to determine which resources were
reassigned and then ibm,update-properties to obtain the new affinity
information about those resources.
The PRRN event-scan RTAS message contains only the "fixed part" with
the "Type" field set to the value 160 and no Extended Event Log. The
four-byte Extended Event Log Length field is re-purposed (since no
Extended Event Log message is included) to pass the "scope" parameter
that causes the ibm,update-nodes to return the nodes affected by the
specific resource reassignment.
This patch adds a handler for RTAS events. The function
pseries_devicetree_update() (from mobility.c) is used to make the
ibm,update-nodes/ibm,update-properties RTAS calls. Updating the NUMA maps
(handled by a subsequent patch) will require significant processing,
so pseries_devicetree_update() is called from an asynchronous workqueue
to allow event processing to continue.
PRRN RTAS events on pseries systems are rare events that have to be
initiated from the HMC console for the system by an IBM tech. This allows
us to assume that these events are widely spaced. Additionally, all work
on the queue is flushed before handling any new work to ensure we only have
one event in flight being handled at a time.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Correct parsing of the buffer returned from ibm,update-properties. The first
element is a length and the path to the property which is slightly different
from the list of properties in the buffer so we need to specifically
handle this.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Newer firmware on Power systems can transparently reassign platform resources
(CPU and Memory) in use. For instance, if a processor or memory unit is
predicted to fail, the platform may transparently move the processing to an
equivalent unused processor or the memory state to an equivalent unused
memory unit. However, reassigning resources across NUMA boundaries may alter
the performance of the partition. When such reassignment is necessary, the
Platform Resource Reassignment Notification (PRRN) option provides a
mechanism to inform the Linux kernel of changes to the NUMA affinity of
its platform resources.
When rtasd receives a PRRN event, it needs to make a series of RTAS
calls (ibm,update-nodes and ibm,update-properties) to retrieve the
updated device tree information. These calls are already handled in the
pseries_devicetree_update() routine used in partition migration.
This patch exposes pseries_devicetree_update() to make it accessible
to other pseries routines, this patch also updates pseries_devicetree_update()
to take a 32-bit scope parameter. The scope value, which was previously hard
coded to 1 for partition migration, is used for the RTAS calls
ibm,update-nodes/properties to update the device tree.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
POWER8 allows us to take interrupts with the MMU on. This gives us a
second set of vectors offset at 0x4000.
Unfortunately when coping these vectors we missed checking for MSR HV
for hardware interrupts (0x500). This results in us trying to use
HSRR0/1 when HV=0, rather than SRR0/1 on HW IRQs
The below fixes this to check CPU_FTR_HVMODE when patching the code at
0x4500.
Also we remove the check for CPU_FTR_ARCH_206 since relocation on IRQs
are only available in arch 2.07 and beyond.
Thanks to benh for helping find this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In __restore_cpu_power8 we determine if we are HV and if not, we return
before setting HV only resources.
Unfortunately we forgot to restore the link register from r11 before
returning.
This will happen on boot and with secondary CPUs not coming online.
This adds the missing link register restore.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In __after_prom_start we copy the kernel down to zero in two calls to
copy_and_flush. After the first call (copy from 0 to copy_to_here:)
we jump to the newly copied code soon after.
Unfortunately there's no isync between the copy of this code and the
jump to it. Hence it's possible that stale instructions could still be
in the icache or pipeline before we branch to it.
We've seen this on real machines and it's results in no console output
after:
calling quiesce...
returning from prom_init
The below adds an isync to ensure that the copy and flushing has
completed before any branching to the new instructions occurs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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>
In commit 85fe402 (fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode), the
initialisation of i_ino was removed from new_inode() and pushed down
into the callers. However spufs_new_inode() was not updated.
This exhibits as no files appearing in /spu, because all our dirents
have a zero inode, which readdir() seems to dislike.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add new return code to rtas_flash to indicate firmware entitlement
expiry. Strictly we don't need this update. But to keep it in sync
with PAPR, this was added.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add proper comment to ibm,validate-flash-image RTAS call
update result tokens.
Note: Only comment section is modified, no code change.
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
None of the cell platforms support CPU hotplug, so we should iterate
only over online nodes when setting PMU interrupts.
This also fixes a warning during boot when NODES_SHIFT is large enough:
WARNING: at /scratch/michael/src/kmk/linus/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:766
...
NIP [c0000000000db278] .irq_linear_revmap+0x30/0x58
LR [c0000000000dc2a0] .irq_create_mapping+0x38/0x1a8
Call Trace:
[c0000003fc9c3af0] [c0000000000dc2a0] .irq_create_mapping+0x38/0x1a8 (unreliable)
[c0000003fc9c3b80] [c000000000655c1c] .__machine_initcall_cell_cbe_init_pm_irq+0x84/0x158
[c0000003fc9c3c20] [c00000000000afb4] .do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x1e0
[c0000003fc9c3cd0] [c000000000644580] .kernel_init_freeable+0x238/0x328
[c0000003fc9c3db0] [c00000000000b784] .kernel_init+0x1c/0x120
[c0000003fc9c3e30] [c000000000009fb8] .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x64/0xac
This is caused by us overflowing our linear revmap because we're
requesting too many interrupts.
Reported-by: Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
need set '\0' for 'local_buffer'.
SPLPAR_MAXLENGTH is 1026, RTAS_DATA_BUF_SIZE is 4096. so the contents of
rtas_data_buf may truncated in memcpy.
if contents are really truncated.
the splpar_strlen is more than 1026. the next while loop checking will
not find the end of buffer. that will cause memory access violation.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch_dup_task_struct() does flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(src), this
destroys the parent's breakpoints for no reason. We should clear
child->thread.ptrace_bps[] copied by dup_task_struct() instead.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On 04/18/2013 07:38 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Since you are only reading one long you shouldn't need to check the
> update count and loop, you will always see a consistent value. The
> system call version of time() just does an unprotected load for example.
Fixed.
> With the above change and with Michael's comments covered (decent
> changelog entry and Signed-off-by):
>
> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Thanks for the review, below the updated patch:
From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch implement the time syscall as vDSO. The performance speedups
are:
Baseline PPC32: 380 nsec
Baseline PPC64: 350 nsec
vdso PPC32: 20 nsec
vsdo PPC64: 20 nsec
Tested on 64 bit build with both 32 bit and 64 bit userland.
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I'm going to do an -rc8, so I'm just going to do this rather than delay
it any further. They are arguably stable material anyway.
* vm_ioremap_memory-examples:
mtdchar: remove no-longer-used vma helpers
vm: convert snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem() to vm_iomap_memory() helper
vm: convert fb_mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper
vm: convert mtdchar mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper
vm: convert HPET mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper
