Motivation:
IBM Blue Gene/Q comes with some very strange firmware that I'm trying to get
out of using in the kernel. So instead I spin all the threads in the boot
wrapper (using the firmware) and have them enter the kexec stub, pre-translated
at the virtual "linear" address, never touching firmware again.
This works strategy works wonderfully, but I need the following patch in the
kexec stub.
I believe it should not effect Book3S and Book3E does not appear to be here yet
so I'd love to get any criticisms up front.
This patch adds two items:
1) Book3e requires that GPR4 survive the "hold" process, so we make
sure that happens.
2) Book3e has no real mode, and the hold code exploits this. Since
these processors ares always translated, we arrange for the kexeced
threads to enter the hold code using the normal kernel linear mapping.
Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <ji...@pobox.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index 58bddee..1b00e95 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ __secondary_hold:
#endif
/* Grab our physical cpu number */
mr r24,r3
+ /* stash r4 for book3e */
+ mr r25,r4
/* Tell the master cpu we're here */
/* Relocation is off & we are located at an address less */
@@ -129,16 +131,31 @@ __secondary_hold:
std r24,__secondary_hold_acknowledge-_stext(0)
sync
+ li r26,0
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E
+ tovirt(r26,r26)
+#endif
/* All secondary cpus wait here until told to start. */
-100: ld r4,__secondary_hold_spinloop-_stext(0)
+100: ld r4,__secondary_hold_spinloop-_stext(r26)
cmpdi 0,r4,0
beq 100b
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E
+ tovirt(r4,r4)
+#endif
ld r4,0(r4) /* deref function descriptor */
mtctr r4
mr r3,r24
+ /*
+ * it may be the case that other platforms have r4 right to
+ * begin with, this gives us some safety in case it is not
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E
+ mr r4,r25
+#else
li r4,0
+#endif
/* Make sure that patched code is visible */
isync
bctr
--
1.7.1
freakazoid:bgq
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