1. 03 Dec, 2008 2 commits
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  3. 01 Dec, 2008 33 commits
  4. 30 Nov, 2008 3 commits
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc: Fix system calls on Cell entered with XER.SO=1 · ab598b66
      Paul Mackerras authored
      It turns out that on Cell, on a kernel with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
      = y, if a program sets the SO (summary overflow) bit in the XER and
      then does a system call, the SO bit in CR0 will be set on return
      regardless of whether the system call detected an error.  Since CR0.SO
      is used as the error indication from the system call, this means that
      all system calls appear to fail.
      
      The reason is that the workaround for the timebase bug on Cell uses a
      compare instruction.  With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, the
      ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY macro reads the timebase, so we end up doing a
      compare instruction, which copies XER.SO to CR0.SO.  Since we were
      doing this in the system call entry patch after clearing CR0.SO but
      before saving the CR, this meant that the saved CR image had CR0.SO
      set if XER.SO was set on entry.
      
      This fixes it by moving the clearing of CR0.SO to after the
      ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY call in the system call entry path.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ab598b66
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      powerpc/cell: Fix GDB watchpoints, again · 960cedb4
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      An earlier patch from Jens Osterkamp attempted to fix GDB
      watchpoints by enabling the DABRX register at boot time.
      Unfortunately, this did not work on SMP setups, where
      secondary CPUs were still using the power-on DABRX value.
      
      This introduces the same change for secondary CPUs on cell
      as well.
      Reported-by: default avatarUlrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarUlrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      960cedb4
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      powerpc/mpic: Don't reset affinity for secondary MPIC on boot · cc353c30
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      Kexec/kdump currently fails on the IBM QS2x blades when the kexec happens
      on a CPU other than the initial boot CPU.  It turns out that this is the
      result of mpic_init trying to set affinity of each interrupt vector to the
      current boot CPU.
      
      As far as I can tell,  the same problem is likely to exist on any
      secondary MPIC, because they have to deliver interrupts to the first
      output all the time. There are two potential solutions for this: either
      not set up affinity at all for secondary MPICs, or assume that a single
      CPU output is connected to the upstream interrupt controller and hardcode
      affinity to that per architecture.
      
      This patch implements the second approach, defaulting to the first output.
      Currently, all known secondary MPICs are routed to their upstream port
      using the first destination, so we hardcode that.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      cc353c30