1. 14 Feb, 2009 2 commits
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      powerpc/4xx: Add missing USB and i2c devices to Canyonlands · 018f76ec
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      This adds the device-tree entries for a handful of devices on the
      Canyonlands board, such as the EHCI and OHCI controllers, the real
      time clock and the AD7414 thermal monitor.
      
      I also updated the defconfig to enable various options related to
      these devices.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      018f76ec
    • Yuri Tikhonov's avatar
      powerpc/44x: Support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE · e1240122
      Yuri Tikhonov authored
      This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards.
      
      For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume
      2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space
      reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are
      actually used. But this may be an acceptable trade-off to achieve the
      high performance we have with big PAGE_SIZEs in some applications (e.g.
      RAID).
      
      Also with 256KB PAGE_SIZE we increase THREAD_SIZE up to 32KB to minimize
      the risk of stack overflows in the cases of on-stack arrays, which size
      depends on the page size (e.g. multipage BIOs, NTFS, etc.).
      
      With 256KB PAGE_SIZE we need to decrease the PKMAP_ORDER at least down
      to 9, otherwise all high memory (2 ^ 10 * PAGE_SIZE == 256MB) we'll be
      occupied by PKMAP addresses leaving no place for vmalloc. We do not
      separate PKMAP_ORDER for 256K from 16K/64K PAGE_SIZE here; actually that
      value of 10 in support for 16K/64K had been selected rather intuitively.
      Thus now for all cases of PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x (including the default, 4KB,
      one) we have 512 pages for PKMAP.
      
      Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should
      use binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3 with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K
      for building applications, which are to be run with the 256KB-page sized
      kernel. If using the older binutils, then you should patch them like follows:
      
      	--- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig
      	+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c
      
      	-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x10000
      	+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE                0x40000
      
      One more restriction we currently have with 256KB page sizes is inability
      to use shmem safely, so, for now, the 256KB is available only if you turn
      the CONFIG_SHMEM option off (another variant is to use BROKEN).
      Though, if you need shmem with 256KB pages, you can always remove the !SHMEM
      dependency in 'config PPC_256K_PAGES', and use the workaround available here:
       http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/19/20Signed-off-by: default avatarYuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      e1240122
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