POWER9 contains an off core mmu called the nest mmu (NMMU). This is
used by other hardware units on the chip to translate virtual
addresses into real addresses. The unit attempting an address
translation provides the majority of the context required for the
translation request except for the base a
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 06:16:30AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:19:39 +1000
> Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>
> > On 09/08/16 02:43, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > >
> > > I think you need to take a closer look of the lifecycle of a container,
> > > having a reference means th
On Sun, 2016-08-14 at 17:42 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > Not fan of the hard #ifdef at all... it will make it hard to
> convert
> > platforms one by one. Why not an arch_want_default_of_probe() or
> > something like this which we can then plumb into ppc_md. ?
>
> Yeah, I'm not either really. I di
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-08-12 at 14:30 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> > With the commit 44a7185c2ae6 ("of/platform: Add common method to
>> > populate default bus"), a default function is introduced to
>> > populate
>> > the default bus and th
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:36:16PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Since v4.8-rc1, the I2C core will print detailed information when adding an
> I2C
> adapter fails. So, drivers can skip this now.
>
> I am still undecided if I apply this as a single patch or break it out. But
> for
> reviewing, avo
On Fri, 2016-08-12 at 14:30 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>
> > With the commit 44a7185c2ae6 ("of/platform: Add common method to
> > populate default bus"), a default function is introduced to
> > populate
> > the default bus and this function is invoked at the
> > arch_initcall_sync
> > level. But a
Powerpc builds may fail with the following build error.
Error log:
In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h:11:0,
from ./include/linux/mmu_context.h:4,
from mm/mmu_context.c:8:
./arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h: In function 'get_tensr':
From: Markus Elfring
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:42:17 +0200
The field "owner" is set by core. Thus delete an extra initialisation.
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/platform_no_drv_owner.cocci
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring
---
drivers/macintosh/ams/ams-i2c.c| 1 -
drivers/macintosh/windf
Le 14/08/2016 à 16:17, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Christophe Leroy writes:
Today powerpc64 uses a set of pgtable_caches while powerpc32 uses
standard pages when using 4k pages and a single pgtable_cache
if using other size pages. In addition powerpc32 uses another cache
when handling huge pag
Le 14/08/2016 à 16:25, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Christophe Leroy writes:
The 8xx has 512k and 8M pages. This patch implements hugepages using
those sizes.
On the 8xx, the size of pages is in the PGD entry,
using PS field (bits 28-29):
00 : Small pages (4k or 16k)
01 : 512k pages
10 : rese
Le 14/08/2016 à 16:27, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Christophe Leroy writes:
This set provides implementation of huge pages on the 8xx
Christophe Leroy (6):
powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
powerpc: fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage
powerpc/8xx: use r3 to scratch CR in ITL
Hi! Here is my first regression report for Linux 4.8. It lists 11
regressions. I was told or found about 10 more, but it turned out all
of them were fixed already in the past few days. Nice, but this in one
of the reasons why compiling this report took way more hours than the
past few reports :-
Hi! Here is my eight regression report for Linux 4.7. It lists 13
regressions I'm currently aware of. 6 of them are new; none were fixed.
As usual: Please let me know about any regressions missing on the list
or if it contains something which shouldn't be there. Since the release
of 4.7 there were
Christophe Leroy writes:
> This set provides implementation of huge pages on the 8xx
>
> Christophe Leroy (6):
> powerpc: port 64 bits pgtable_cache to 32 bits
> powerpc: fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage
> powerpc/8xx: use r3 to scratch CR in ITLBmiss
> powerpc/8xx: Move additional DTLBM
Christophe Leroy writes:
> The 8xx has 512k and 8M pages. This patch implements hugepages using
> those sizes.
>
> On the 8xx, the size of pages is in the PGD entry,
> using PS field (bits 28-29):
> 00 : Small pages (4k or 16k)
> 01 : 512k pages
> 10 : reserved
> 11 : 8M pages
>
> The implementat
Christophe Leroy writes:
> Today powerpc64 uses a set of pgtable_caches while powerpc32 uses
> standard pages when using 4k pages and a single pgtable_cache
> if using other size pages. In addition powerpc32 uses another cache
> when handling huge pages.
>
> In preparation of implementing huge pa
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 09:28:17AM +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> @@ -846,7 +834,9 @@ static void tm_reclaim_thread(struct thread_struct *thr,
> if (!MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
> return;
>
> - tm_reclaim(thr, thr->regs->msr, cause);
> + giveup_all(container_of(thr, struct t
On 8/8/2016 4:19 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
On 8/8/2016 9:39 AM, Kefeng Wang wrote:
+cc Rob
On 2016/8/8 20:51, Julian Margetson wrote:
On 8/8/2016 8:22 AM, Kefeng Wang wrote:
On 2016/8/8 19:52, Julian Margetson wrote:
Problem booting Kern
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