26 Mar, 2009
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
31 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
25 Dec, 2008
2 commits
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Early init code clears the backchain of the initial kernel stack frame.
This is not necessary since it is pre initialized with zeros. Plus it
was broken on 64 bit since it cleared only four of eight bytes.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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This patch adds the code generation option for IBM System z10 and
adds a check in head[31,64].S to prevents the execution of a kernel
compiled for a new processor type on an old machine.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
30 Apr, 2008
2 commits
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This adds hugetlbfs support on System z, using both hardware large page
support if available and software large page emulation on older hardware.
Shared (large) page tables are implemented in software emulation mode,
by using page->index of the first tail page from a compound large page
to store page table information.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
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From: Heiko Carstens
From: Carsten OtteThis lets us use defines for the magic bits in machine flags instead
of using plain numbers all over the place.
In addition on newer machines features/facilities are indicated by the
result of the stfl instruction. So we use these bits instead of trying
to execute new instructions and check wether we get an exception or
not.
Also the mvpg instruction is always available when in zArch mode,
whereas the idte instruction is only available in zArch mode. This
results in some minor optimizations.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
26 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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The clear-by-asce operation of the idte instruction gets an asce
(address-space-control-element) as argument to specify which TLBs
need to get flushed. The current code passes a plain pointer to
the start of the pgd without the additional bits which would make
the pointer an asce. The current machines don't mind the difference
but a future model might want to use the designation type control
bits in the asce as a filter for the TLBs to flush.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
27 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI
disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first
32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is
booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved memory can be accessed from
Linux. This patch exports memory and registers of the crashed Linux to
userspace via a debugfs file. For more information refer to
Documentation/s390/zfcpdump.txt, which is included in this patch.Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
06 Mar, 2007
1 commit
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Replaced check_user_space() + __check_access_register with the new
check_space(). The old functions made wrong assumptions about kernel
and user space when the kernel and user address spaces are switched
(kernel in home space, user in primary/secondary space).
Secondly the user process can switch to the accress register mode if
it is running in primary or secondary mode. In addition it can load
an arbitrary value to the access registers. If any other value than
0 for primary space or 1 for secondary space is loaded and memory
is accessed using the base register related to the access register,
the program should be terminated with a SIGSEGV. To achieve that the
DUALD pointer in the DUCT and the PSALD pointer in the PASTE need
to point to an array of 8 invalid access-list entries to get a
ALEN-translation exception if an invalid alet is used.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
21 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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With CONFIG_SHARED_KERNEL the kernel text segment that might be in a
read only memory sections starts at 1MB. Memory between 0x12000 and
0x100000 is unused then. Free this, so we have appr. an extra MB
of memory available.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
06 Feb, 2007
3 commits
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Hopefully this will make it more maintainable and less error prone.
Code makes use of search_exception_tables(). Since it calls this
function before the kernel exeception table is sorted, there is an
early call to sort_main_extable().This way it's easy to use the already present infrastructure of fixup
sections. Also this would allows to easily convert the rest of
head[31|64].S into C code.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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Add support to boot from a named saved segment (NSS).
Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang
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FCP dump feature detection works only if the sclp command in head.S
was succesful. Since the sclp command is skipped if diag260 works,
we don't have any dump feature detection anymore.
Bug was introduced with d57de5a36791cb1b7285649c62f183b0d3505f7d.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
09 Jan, 2007
1 commit
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Fix a memory leak problem in the memory detection routines. A memory leak
of 128k occurs when we have a contiguous memory with mixed access-mode
(read or write) ranges.Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
04 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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VMALLOC_END on 31bit should be 0x8000000UL instead of 0x7fffffffL.
The page mask which is used to make sure memory_end is on 4MB/2MB
boundary is wrong and not needed. Therefore remove it.
Make sure a vmalloc area does also exist and work on (future)
machines with 4TB and more memory.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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Avoid the tprot loop if diag260 works and reports that there are no
holes in memory. The tprot instruction can lead to a significant delay
in the ipl process if the virtual guest has a lot of memory and the
host is under memory pressure.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
05 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
01 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Use the new diagnose 0x9c in the spinlock implementation for s390. It
yields the remaining timeslice of the virtual cpu that tries to acquire a
lock to the virtual cpu that is the current holder of the lock.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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Huge s390 assembly files whitespace cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
20 Sep, 2006
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This introduces new user-copy operations which are optimized for
copying more than 256 Bytes on new hardware.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
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Convert GET_IPL_DEVICE assembler macro to C function.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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It is now possible to specify a ccw/fcp dump device which is used to
automatically create a system dump in case of a kernel panic. The dump
device can be configured under /sys/firmware/dump.
In addition it is now possible to specify a ccw/fcp device which is used
for the next reboot of Linux. The reipl device can be configured under
/sys/firmware/reipl.Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
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Move initrd if the bitmap of the bootmem allocator would overwrite it.
In addition this patch sets the default size and address of the initrd to 0.
Therefore all boot loaders must set the initrd size and address correctly.
This is especially relevant for ftp boot via HMC/SE, where this change
requires a special patch file entry in the .ins file which sets these two
values contained at address 0x10408 and 0x10410.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
18 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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SLES9 binutils don't like .align 4096 statements in head.S. Work around this
by using .org statements.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
29 Jun, 2006
2 commits
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There is almost no room left for any new code between 0x10000
and 0x10480. Move the code from 0x10000 to 0x11000.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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The wrong base register is used to read a value from the sclp data
structure. The value is used to calculate the memory size.
Use correct register %r4.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
07 Nov, 2005
2 commits
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Merge common parts of head.S and head64.S into head.S and move architecture
specific parts to head31.S and head64.S respectively. Saves us ~500 lines
of duplicated assembly code.Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Don't switch back to 24 bit addressing mode when waiting for an external
interrupt and set the correct bit in wait PSW (external mask instead of I/O
mask).Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Oct, 2005
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Sysfs interface to export ipl device parameters. Dependent on the ipl type
the interface will look like this:- ccw ipl:
/sys/firmware/ipl/device
/ipl_type- fcp ipl:
/sys/firmware/ipl/binary_parameter
/bootprog
/br_lba
/device
/ipl_type
/lun
/scp_data
/wwpn- otherwise (unknown that is):
/sys/firmware/ipl/ipl_type
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Sep, 2005
1 commit
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Delete obsoleted parts form arch makefiles and rename to asm-offsets.h
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
30 Jul, 2005
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The patch that introduced waiting for interrupts after resetting the reader
can cause the boot to fail because the system is waiting for an interrupt that
will never arrive. Add code to check if an interrupt is supposed to arrive
before waiting endlessly.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Jul, 2005
2 commits
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The kernel uses the SIGP external call order code to signal other CPUs. When
running with dedicated CPUs external calls don't get delivered immediately but
within a fixed polling invervall. This can lead to delays where the system
appears to do nothing. Replace the SIGP external call order with the SIGP
emergency call order since this one gets delivered immediately.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done
inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock
before doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the number of
retries before a cpu is yielded.The reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to
give up the virtual cpu is quite expensive. For spin locks that are held only
for a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings
for spin locks that are held for a longer timer. The default retry count is
1000.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jun, 2005
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Wait for interrupt and clear status pending after resetting the reader.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The kernel takes a very long time to boot if the memory size is bigger then
32767 MB. The memory size is contained in a structure created by an sclp
call. The kernel accesses the field with a LH instrution which performs a
sign extension of a 16 bit word. In the case of a memory size with bit 2^15
set this results in a very large value and the memory detection just loops for
a long time. In addition if more then 64 GB are used on a 64 bit system the
memory size is read from an incorrect storage location.Use zero-extention to read the 16 bit memory size and the correct offset to
read the 4 byte memory size on 64 bit.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
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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!
