- 03 Apr, 2018 9 commits
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Nicholas Piggin authored
The hard lockup watchdog can fire under local_irq_disable on platforms with irq soft masking. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Use the NMI IPI rather than smp_call_function for smp_send_stop. Have stopped CPUs hard disable interrupts rather than just soft disable. This function is used in crash/panic/shutdown paths to bring other CPUs down as quickly and reliably as possible, and minimizing their potential to cause trouble. Avoiding the Linux smp_call_function infrastructure and (if supported) using true NMI IPIs makes this more robust. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
The PSSCR value is not stored to PACA_REQ_PSSCR if the CPU does not have the XER[SO] bug. Fix this by storing up-front, outside the workaround code. The initial test is not required because it is a slow path. The workaround is made to depend on CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE, to match pnv_power9_force_smt4_catch() where it is used. Drop the comment on pnv_power9_force_smt4_catch() as it's no longer true. Fixes: 7672691a ("powerpc/powernv: Provide a way to force a core into SMT4 mode") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Michael Ellerman authored
The recent commit 15a3204d ("powerpc/64s: Set assembler machine type to POWER4") set the machine type in our ASFLAGS when building the kernel, and removed some ".machine power4" directives from various asm files. This broke the selftests build on old toolchains (that don't assume Power4), because we build the kernel source files into the selftests using different ASFLAGS. The fix is simply to add -mpower4 to the selftest ASFLAGS as well. Fixes: 15a3204d ("powerpc/64s: Set assembler machine type to POWER4") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
After migration the security feature flags might have changed (e.g., destination system with unpatched firmware), but some flags are not set/clear again in init_cpu_char_feature_flags() because it assumes the security flags to be the defaults. Additionally, if the H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall fails then init_cpu_char_feature_flags() does not run again, which potentially might leave the system in an insecure or sub-optimal configuration. So, just restore the security feature flags to the defaults assumed by init_cpu_char_feature_flags() so it can set/clear them correctly, and to ensure safe settings are in place in case the hypercall fail. Fixes: f636c147 ("powerpc/pseries: Set or clear security feature flags") Depends-on: 19887d6a28e2 ("powerpc: Move default security feature flags") Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
This moves the definition of the default security feature flags (i.e., enabled by default) closer to the security feature flags. This can be used to restore current flags to the default flags. Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
flush_thread() calls __set_breakpoint() via set_debug_reg_defaults() without checking ppc_breakpoint_available(). On Power8 or later CPUs which have the DAWR feature disabled that will cause a write to the DABR which is incorrect as those CPUs don't have a DABR. Fix it two ways, by checking ppc_breakpoint_available() in set_debug_reg_defaults(), and also by reworking __set_breakpoint() to only write to DABR on Power7 or earlier. Fixes: 96541531 ("powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Rework the logic in __set_breakpoint()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: In function ‘kvmppc_h_set_mode’: arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:745:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ppc_breakpoint_available’ if (!ppc_breakpoint_available()) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fixes: 398e712c ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Return error from h_set_mode(SET_DAWR) on POWER9") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Commit 8e0b634b ("powerpc/64s: Do not allocate lppaca if we are not virtualized") removed allocation of lppaca on bare metal platforms. But with CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR enabled, we still access the lppaca on bare metal in some code paths. Fix this but adding runtime checks for SPLPAR (shared processor LPAR). Fixes: 8e0b634b ("powerpc/64s: Do not allocate lppaca if we are not virtualized") Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 01 Apr, 2018 5 commits
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Mathieu Malaterre authored
In commit 9690c157 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Fix always false comparison against MMU_NO_CONTEXT") an issue was discovered where `mm->context.id` was being truncated to an `unsigned int`, while the PID is actually an `unsigned long`. Update the earlier patch by fixing one remaining occurrence. Discovered during a compilation with W=1: arch/powerpc/mm/tlb-radix.c:702:19: error: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Matt Evans authored
When using SIG_DBG_BRANCH_TRACING, MSR.BE is left enabled in the user context when single_step_exception() prepares the SIGTRAP delivery. The resulting branch-trap-within-the-SIGTRAP-handler isn't healthy. Commit 2538c2d0 broke this, by replacing an MSR mask operation of ~(MSR_SE | MSR_BE) with a call to clear_single_step() which only clears MSR_SE. This patch adds a new helper, clear_br_trace(), which clears the debug trap before invoking the signal handler. This helper is a NOP for BookE as SIG_DBG_BRANCH_TRACING isn't supported on BookE. Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
This reduces vmlinux text size by 1kB and data by 1.5kB with a small build! Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Add the recently added CPU_FTRS_POWER9_DD2_2 to the little endian possible mask as noticed by Nick.] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Add GENERIC_CPU support for little-endian rather than using POWER8 specific selection for POWER9 and above. Restrict GENERIC_CPU to POWER8 and above on little endian. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Duplicate GENERIC_CPU to avoid a kbuild warning about the prompt being redefined. Spell out that GENERIC means >= POWER4 for BE.] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 31 Mar, 2018 25 commits
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Nicholas Piggin authored
POWER4 has been broken since at least the change 49d09bf2 ("powerpc/64s: Optimise MSR handling in exception handling"), which requires mtmsrd L=1 support. This was introduced in ISA v2.01, and POWER4 supports ISA v2.00. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
The last usage was removed in c17b98cf ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors") (Dec 2014). Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
The CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD2_1 flag is intended to be set for DD2.1 and above (which is what the cputable setup does). Fix DT CPU features quirk setup to match. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Merge with upstream changes] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Rather than override the machine type in .S code (which can hide wrong or ambiguous code generation for the target), set the type to power4 for all assembly. This also means we need to be careful not to build power4-only code when we're not building for Book3S, such as the "power7" versions of copyuser/page/memcpy. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Fix Book3E build, don't build the "power7" variants for non-Book3S] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
ALTIVEC and VSX features are not added by to default to the POWERx CPU feature sets because they are intended to be enabled by firmware. Currently they end up in CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE due to their inclusion in other the set for other CPUs, eg. PPC970. But they should be added individually to the CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE set, because if we reduce the set of CPUs that are built-for they may disappear from the possible mask. It already contains CPU_FTR_VSX, so add ALTIVEC. The _COMP features should be used because they won't be present if compiled out. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Add detail to change log] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
It's not a bug to have features missing in CPU_FTR_ALWAYS, but it is a missed opportunity for optimisation. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Change log] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Mark Greer authored
When building a uImage or zImage using ppc6xx_defconfig and some other defconfigs, the following error occurs with GCC 4.5.1: /arch/powerpc/boot/libfdt_env.h:10:13: error: redefinition of typedef 'uint32_t' /arch/powerpc/boot/types.h:21:13: note: previous declaration of 'uint32_t' was here /arch/powerpc/boot/libfdt_env.h:11:13: error: redefinition of typedef 'uint64_t' /arch/powerpc/boot/types.h:22:13: note: previous declaration of 'uint64_t' was here The problem is that commit 656ad58e (powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers) adds typedefs for uint32_t and uint64_t to type.h but doesn't remove the pre-existing (and now duplicate) typedefs from libfdt_env.h. Fix the error by removing the duplicate typedefs from libfdt_env.h Signed-off-by: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
When waking from a CPU idle instruction (e.g., nap or stop), the sync for ordering the KVM secondary thread state can be avoided if there wakeup is coming from a kernel context rather than KVM context. This improves performance for ping-pong benchmark with the stop0 idle state by 0.46% for 2 threads in the same core, and 1.02% for different cores. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Implement a new function to invoke stop, power9_offline_stop, which is like power9_idle_stop but used by the cpu hotplug code. Move KVM secondary state manipulation code to the offline case. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
system_reset_exception does most of its own crash handling now, invoking the debugger or crash dumps if they are registered. If not, then it goes through to die() to print stack traces, and then is supposed to panic (according to comments). However after die() prints oopses, it does its own handling which doesn't allow system_reset_exception to panic (e.g., it may just kill the current process). This patch causes sreset exceptions to return from die after it prints messages but before acting. This also stops die from invoking the debugger on 0x100 crashes. system_reset_exception similarly calls the debugger. It had been thought this was harmless (because if the debugger was disabled, neither call would fire, and if it was enabled the first call would return). However in some cases like xmon 'X' command, the debugger returns 0, which currently causes it to be entered again (first in system_reset_exception, then in die), which is confusing. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin authored
System Reset, being an NMI, must return more carefully than other interrupts. It has traditionally returned via the nromal return from exception path, but that has a number of problems. - r13 does not get restored if returning to kernel. This is for interrupts which may cause a context switch, which sreset will never do. Interrupting OPAL (which uses a different r13) is one place where this causes breakage. - It may cause several other problems returning to kernel with preempt or TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE if it hits at the wrong time. It's safer just to have a simple restore and return, like machine check which is the other NMI. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Michael Neuling authored
The current EEH callbacks can race with a driver unbind. This can result in a backtraces like this: EEH: Frozen PHB#0-PE#1fc detected EEH: PE location: S000009, PHB location: N/A CPU: 2 PID: 2312 Comm: kworker/u258:3 Not tainted 4.15.6-openpower1 #2 Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_reset_work [nvme] Call Trace: dump_stack+0x9c/0xd0 (unreliable) eeh_dev_check_failure+0x420/0x470 eeh_check_failure+0xa0/0xa4 nvme_reset_work+0x138/0x1414 [nvme] process_one_work+0x1ec/0x328 worker_thread+0x2e4/0x3a8 kthread+0x14c/0x154 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xc8 nvme nvme1: Removing after probe failure status: -19 <snip> cpu 0x23: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000ff50f3800] pc: c0080000089a0eb0: nvme_error_detected+0x4c/0x90 [nvme] lr: c000000000026564: eeh_report_error+0xe0/0x110 sp: c000000ff50f3a80 msr: 9000000000009033 dar: 400 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc000000ff507c000 paca = 0xc00000000fdc9d80 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 782, comm = eehd Linux version 4.15.6-openpower1 (smc@smc-desktop) (gcc version 6.4.0 (Buildroot 2017.11.2-00008-g4b6188e)) #2 SM P Tue Feb 27 12:33:27 PST 2018 enter ? for help eeh_report_error+0xe0/0x110 eeh_pe_dev_traverse+0xc0/0xdc eeh_handle_normal_event+0x184/0x4c4 eeh_handle_event+0x30/0x288 eeh_event_handler+0x124/0x170 kthread+0x14c/0x154 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xc8 The first part is an EEH (on boot), the second half is the resulting crash. nvme probe starts the nvme_reset_work() worker thread. This worker thread starts touching the device which see a device error (EEH) and hence queues up an event in the powerpc EEH worker thread. nvme_reset_work() then continues and runs nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work() which results in unbinding the driver from the device and hence releases all resources. At the same time, the EEH worker thread starts doing the EEH .error_detected() driver callback, which no longer works since the resources have been freed. This fixes the problem in the same way the generic PCIe AER code (in drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c) does. It makes the EEH code hold the device_lock() while performing the driver EEH callbacks and associated code. This ensures either the callbacks are no longer register, or if they are registered the driver will not be removed from underneath us. This has been broken forever. The EEH call backs were first introduced in 2005 (in 77bd7415) but it's not clear if a lock was needed back then. Fixes: 77bd7415 ("[PATCH] powerpc: PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.16+ Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Thiago Jung Bauermann authored
kexec_file_load() on powerpc doesn't support kdump kernels yet, so it returns -ENOTSUPP in that case. I've recently learned that this errno is internal to the kernel and isn't supposed to be exposed to userspace. Therefore, change to -EOPNOTSUPP which is defined in an uapi header. This does indeed make kexec-tools happier. Before the patch, on ppc64le: # ~bauermann/src/kexec-tools/build/sbin/kexec -s -p /boot/vmlinuz kexec_file_load failed: Unknown error 524 After the patch: # ~bauermann/src/kexec-tools/build/sbin/kexec -s -p /boot/vmlinuz kexec_file_load failed: Operation not supported Fixes: a0458284 ("powerpc: Add support code for kexec_file_load()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+ Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
This hack, introduced in commit c5df7f77 ("powerpc: allow ioremap within reserved memory regions") is now unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
Because the two memory blocks (usually called MEM1 and MEM2) are not merged anymore, __request_region in kernel/resource.c will correctly allow reserving regions in the physical address space between MEM1 and MEM2, where many important peripherals are (GPIO, MMC, USB, ...). A previous change to __ioremap_caller in arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c ensures that multiple memblocks are properly considered in ioremap; this makes it unnecessary to set __allow_ioremap_reserved. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
On systems where there is MMIO space between different blocks of RAM in the physical address space, __ioremap_caller did not allow mapping these MMIO areas, because they were below the end RAM and thus considered RAM as well. Use the memblock-based page_is_ram function, which returns false for such MMIO holes. v2: Keep the check for p < virt_to_phys(high_memory). On 32-bit systems with high memory (memory above physical address 4GiB), the high memory is expected to be available though ioremap. The high_memory variable marks the end of low memory; comparing against it means that only ioremap requests for low RAM will be denied. Reported by Michael Ellerman. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
To support accurate checking for different blocks of memory on PPC32, use the same memblock-based approach that's already used on PPC64 also on PPC32. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
Instead of open-coding the search in page_is_ram, call memblock_is_memory. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
The Wii has a blue LED in the disk drive slot, which is controlled via a GPIO line. Add this LED to wii.dts, and mark it as a panic-indicator. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
These are the GPIO line names on a Nintendo Wii, as documented in: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Hardware/Hollywood_GPIOsSigned-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
The Hollywood GPIO controller supports 32 GPIOs, but on the Wii, only 24 are used. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
The Hollywood chipset's GPIO controller has two sets of registers: One for access by the PowerPC CPU, and one for access by the ARM coprocessor (but both are accessible from the PPC because the memory firewall (AHBPROT) is usually disabled when booting Linux, today). The wii_power_off function currently assumes that the poweroff GPIO pin is configured for use via the ARM side, but the upcoming GPIO driver configures all pins for use via the PPC side, breaking poweroff. Configure the owner register explicitly in wii_power_off to make wii_power_off work with and without the new GPIO driver. I think the Wii can be switched to the generic gpio-poweroff driver, after the GPIO driver is merged. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
Previously, wii_device_probe would only initialize devices under the /hollywood node. After this patch, platform devices placed outside of /hollywood will also be initialized. The intended usecase for this are devices located outside of the Hollywood chip, such as GPIO LEDs and GPIO buttons. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Michael Ellerman authored
On 64-bit Book3E systems, in setup_tlb_core_data() we reference other CPUs pacas. But in commit 59f57774 ("powerpc/64: Defer paca allocation until memory topology is discovered") the allocation of non-boot-CPU pacas was deferred until later in boot. This leads to an oops: CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x8888888888888918 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000e2f0d0 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] NIP .setup_tlb_core_data+0xdc/0x160 Call Trace: .setup_tlb_core_data+0x5c/0x160 (unreliable) .setup_arch+0x80/0x348 .start_kernel+0x7c/0x598 start_here_common+0x1c/0x40 Luckily setup_tlb_core_data() is called immediately prior to smp_setup_pacas(). So simply switching their order is sufficient to fix the oops and seems unlikely to have any other unwanted side effects. Fixes: 59f57774 ("powerpc/64: Defer paca allocation until memory topology is discovered") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
SLOF checks for 'sc 1' (hypercall) support by issuing a hcall with H_SET_DABR. Since the recent commit e8ebedbf ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Return error from h_set_dabr() on POWER9") changed H_SET_DABR to return H_UNSUPPORTED on Power9, we see guest boot failures, the symptom is the boot seems to just stop in SLOF, eg: SLOF *************************************************************** QEMU Starting Build Date = Sep 24 2017 12:23:07 FW Version = buildd@ release 20170724 <no further output> SLOF can cope if H_SET_DABR returns H_HARDWARE. So wwitch the return value to H_HARDWARE instead of H_UNSUPPORTED so that we don't break the guest boot. That does mean we return a different error to PowerVM in this case, but that's probably not a big concern. Fixes: e8ebedbf ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Return error from h_set_dabr() on POWER9") Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 30 Mar, 2018 1 commit
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Michael Ellerman authored
Bring in yet another series that touches KVM code, and might need to be merged into the kvm-ppc branch to resolve conflicts. This required some changes in pnv_power9_force_smt4_catch/release() due to the paca array becomming an array of pointers.
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