This patch adds support for creating 1:1 mapping for the PPC_47x during
a KEXEC. The implementation is similar to that of the PPC440x which is
described here :
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/104323/
PPC_47x MMU :
The 47x uses Unified TLB 1024 entries, with 4-way associative mapping
(4 x 256 entries). The index to be used is calculated by the MMU by
hashing the PID, EPN and TS. The software can choose to specify the way
by setting bit 0(enable way select) and the way in bits 1-2 in the TLB
Word 0.
Implementation:
The patch erases all the UTLB entries which includes the tlb covering
the mapping for our code. The shadow TLB caches the mapping for the
running code which helps us to continue the execution until we do
isync/rfi. We then create a tmp mapping for the current code in the
other address space (TS) and switch to it.
Then we create a 1:1 mapping(EPN=RPN) for 0-2GiB in the original
address space and switch to the new mapping.
TODO: Add SMP support.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Initialize the PID register with kernel pid (0) before we start
setting the TLB mapping for KEXEC. Also set the MMUCR[TID] to kernel
PID.
This was spotted while testing the kexec on ISS for 47x. ISS doesn't
return a successful tlbsx for a kernel address with PID set to a user PID.
Though the hardware/qemu/simics work fine.
This patch is harmless and initializes the PID to 0 (kernel PID) which
is usually the case during a normal kernel boot. This would fix the kexec
on ISS for 440. I have tested this patch on sequoia board.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
PowerPC has non standard getregs calls that only dump the GPRs or
FPRs and have their arguments reversed. commit e17666ba48 (ptrace
updates & new, better requests) in 2.6.3 deprecated them and introduced
more standard versions.
It's been about 5 years and I know of no users of the old calls so
lets remove them.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When we get an EEH error we just print a backtrace with dump_stack
which is rather cryptic. We really should print something before
spewing out the backtrace.
Also switch from dump_stack to WARN so we get more information about
the fail - what modules were loaded, what process was running etc.
This was useful information when debugging a recent EEH subsystem bug.
The standard WARN output should also get picked up by monitoring
tools like kerneloops.
The register dump is of questionable value here but I figured it was
better to use something standard and not roll my own.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add a menu to select various 64-bit CPU targets for gcc. We
default to -mtune=power7 and if gcc doesn't understand that we
fallback to -mtune=power4.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Now we require gcc 4.0 on 64-bit we can remove the pre gcc 4.0
-maltivec workaround.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Older versions of gcc had issues with using -maltivec together with
-mcpu of a non altivec capable CPU. We work around it by specifying
-mcpu=970, but the logic is complicated.
In preparation for adding more -mcpu targets, remove the workaround
and just require gcc 4.0 for 64-bit builds.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY, the option is badly named and only does two
things:
- It wraps the MMU segment table code. With feature fixups there is
little downside to compiling this in.
- It uses the newer mtocrf instruction in various assembly functions.
Instead of making this a compile option just do it at runtime via
a feature fixup.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This causes i2c-powermac to register i2c devices exposed in the
device-tree, enabling new-style probing of devices.
Note that we prefix the IDs with "MAC," in order to prevent the
generic drivers from matching. This is done on purpose as we only
want drivers specifically tested/designed to operate on powermacs
to match.
This removes the special case we had for the AMS driver, and updates
the driver's match table instead.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add two optimisations to enable_kernel_altivec:
- enable_kernel_altivec has already determined if we need to
save the previous task's state but we call giveup_altivec
in both cases, requiring an extra branch in giveup_altivec. Create
giveup_altivec_notask which only turns on the VMX bit in the
MSR.
- We write the VMX MSR bit each time we call enable_kernel_altivec
even it was already set. Check the bit and branch out if we have
already set it. The classic case for this is vectored IO
where we have to copy multiple buffers to or from userspace.
The following testcase was used to confirm this patch improves
performance:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c
Since the current breakpoint for using VMX in copy_tofrom_user is
4096 bytes, I'm using buffers of 4096 + 1 cacheline (4224) bytes.
A benchmark of 16 entry readvs (-s 16):
time copy_to_user -l 4224 -s 16 -i 1000000
completes 5.2% faster on a POWER7 PS700.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use an empty inline instead of an empty function to implement
giveup_altivec on book3e CPUs, similar to flush_altivec_to_thread.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reformat lppaca.h to match Linux coding standards.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove all the iseries specific fields in the lppaca.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We have a union containing fields from the old iseries hypervisor
that has been reused for the cede latency hint. Since we no
longer support iseries, remove the union completely.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At the moment system call entry looks like:
crclr so
...
mfcr r9
...
std r9,_CCR(r1)
commit bd19c8994a ([POWERPC] system call micro optimisation) put
some space between the crclr and mfcr in order to avoid a stall.
There is still a stall seen between the mfcr and std. We can avoid
the crclr by doing it in a GPR with rlwinm which gives us more room
to better schedule the sequence.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The count register is volatile so we don't need to preserve it.
Store zero to the entry in the exception frame.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The XER is a volatile register so there is no need to save and restore
it over a system call - zero it out in the exception stack frame
instead.
This should fix a 5 cycle stall of the mfxer/std seen on POWER7.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
syscall_dotrace_cont and syscall_error_cont tend to complicate perf
output so make them local.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull build fixes for less mainstream architectures from Paul Gortmaker:
"These are fixes for frv(1), blackfin(2), powerpc(1) and xtensa(4).
Fortunately the touches are nearly all specific to files just used by
the arch in question. The two touches to shared/common files
[kernel/irq/debug.h and drivers/pci/Makefile] are trivial to assess as
no risk to anyone.
Half of them relate to xtensa directly. It was only when I fixed the
last xtensa issue that I realized that the arch has been broken for a
significant time, and isn't a specific v3.4 regression. So if you
wanted, we could leave xtensa lying bleeding in the street for a
couple more weeks and queue those for 3.5. But given they are no risk
to anyone outside of xtensa, I figured to just leave them in.
If you are OK with taking the xtensa fixes, then please pull to get:
- one last implicit include uncovered by system.h that is in a file
specific to just one powerpc defconfig. (I'd sync'd with BenH).
- fix an oversight in the PCI makefile where shared code wasn't being
compiled for ARCH=frv
- fix a missing include for GPIO in blackfin framebuffer.
- audit and tag endif in blackfin ezkit board file, in order to find
and fix the misplaced endif masking a block of code.
- fix irq/debug.h choice of temporary macro names to be more internal
so they don't conflict with names used by xtensa.
- fix a reference to an undeclared local var in xtensa's signal.c
- fix an implicit bug.h usage in xtensa's asm/io.h uncovered by my
removing bug.h from kernel.h
- fix xtensa to properly indicate it is using asm-generic/hardirq.h
in order to resolve the link error - undefined ack_bad_irq
The xtensa still fails final link as my latest binutils does something
evil when ld forward-relocates unlikely() blocks, but in theory people
who have older/valid toolchains could now use the thing."
* 'for-v3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
xtensa: fix build fail on undefined ack_bad_irq
blackfin: fix ifdef fustercluck in mach-bf538/boards/ezkit.c
blackfin: fix compile error in bfin-lq035q1-fb.c
pci: frv architecture needs generic setup-bus infrastructure
irq: hide debug macros so they don't collide with others.
xtensa: fix build error in xtensa/include/asm/io.h
xtensa: fix build failure in xtensa/kernel/signal.c
powerpc: fix system.h fallout in sysdev/scom.c [chroma_defconfig]
The dependency on hotplug memory was removed, so
remove the dependency in the Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Real mode memory can be limited and runs out quickly as memory is allocated
during kernel startup. Having the highmem available sooner fixes this.
This change simplifies the memory management code by converting from hotplug
memory to logical memory blocks.
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Use any preallocated highmem region setup by the bootloader.
This implementation only checks for the existance of a single
region at region_index=0.
This feature allows the bootloader to preallocate highmem
regions and pass the region locations to the kernel through
the repository. Preallocated regions can be used to hold the
initrd or other large data. If no region info exists, the
kernel retains the old behavior and attempts to allocate the
highmem region itself.
Based on Hector Martin's patch "Get lv1 high memory region from
devtree".
CC: Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
CC: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Add repository helper routines to read highmem region info.
Bootloaders that preallocate highmem regions must place the
region info into the repository at these well known nodes.
These routines allow second stage kernles to read the region
info from those nodes.
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
CC: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Add routines to allow Linux based bootloaders to create and/or
modify highmem region info in the PS3 system repository where
it can be retrived by later boot stages.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Add a new config option CONFIG_PS3_REPOSITORY_WRITE that
conditionally builds in support to create, write and delete
nodes in the PS3 system repository.
This support will allow Linux based bootloaders to manage data
in the system repository for use by later boot stages,
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
This gets rid of the unused default senses array, and replaces the
incorrect use of IRQ_TYPE_NONE with the new IRQ_TYPE_DEFAULT for
the initial set_trigger() call when mapping an interrupt.
This in turn makes us read the HW state and update the irq desc
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
mpic_is_ipi() takes a virq and immediately converts it to a hw_irq.
However, one of the two call sites calls it with a ... hw_irq. The
other call site also happens to have the hw_irq at hand, so let's
change it to just take that as an argument. Also change mpic_is_tm()
for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If the interrupt and the timeout happen roughly at the same
time, we can get into a situation where the timer function
is run while the interrupt has already been processed. In
this case, the timer function might end up doing an add_timer
on an already pending timer, causing a BUG_ON() to trigger.
Instead, just skip the whole timeout operation if we see that
the timer is pending. The spinlock ensures that the only way
that happens is if we already started a new operation and thus
the timeout can be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The problem was reported by Anton Blanchard. While EEH error
happened to the PCI device without the corresponding device
driver, kernel crash was seen. Eventually, I successfully
reproduced the problem on Firebird-L machine with utility
"errinjct". Initially, the device driver for Emulex ethernet
MAC has been disabled from .config and force data parity on
the Emulex ethernet MAC with help of "errinjct". Eventually,
I saw the kernel crash after issueing couple of "lspci -v"
command.
The root cause behind is that the PCI device, including the
reference to the corresponding eeh device, will be removed
from the system while EEH does recovery. Afterwards, the
PCI device will be probed again and added into the system
accordingly. So it's not safe to retrieve the eeh device from
the corresponding PCI device after the PCI device has been removed
and not added again.
The patch fixes the issue and retrieve the eeh device from OF node
instead of PCI device after the PCI device has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Also fix issue of accessing invalid msgr pointer issue. The local
msgr pointer in fucntion mpic_msgr_get will be accessed before
getting a valid address which will cause kernel crash.
Signed-off-by: Mingkai Hu <Mingkai.hu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
In file included from arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c:20:0:
~/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_msgr.h: In function 'mpic_msgr_set_destination':
~/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_msgr.h:117:2:
error: implicit declaration of function 'get_hard_smp_processor_id'
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Mingkai Hu <Mingkai.hu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit ae3a197e (Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC) broke build of
assembly files when CONFIG_BOOKE_WDT is enabled as follows:
AS arch/powerpc/lib/string.o
/home/baruch/git/stable/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h: Assembler messages:
/home/baruch/git/stable/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h:19: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `extern'
/home/baruch/git/stable/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h:20: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `extern'
Since setup_32.c is the only user of the booke_wdt configuration variables, move
the declarations there.
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit 46d026ac ("powerpc/85xx: consolidate of_platform_bus_probe calls")
replaced platform-specific of_device_id tables with a single function
that probes the most of the busses in 85xx device trees. If a specific
platform needed additional busses probed, then it could call
of_platform_bus_probe() again. Typically, the additional platform-specific
busses are children of existing busses that have already been probed.
of_platform_bus_probe() does not handle those child busses automatically.
Unfortunately, this doesn't actually work. The second (platform-specific)
call to of_platform_bus_probe() never finds any of the busses it's asked
to find.
To remedy this, the platform-specific of_device_id tables are eliminated,
and their entries are merged into mpc85xx_common_ids[], so that all busses
are probed at once.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
The following shows up in chroma_defconfig:
CC arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.o
arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.c: In function 'scom_debug_init':
arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.c:182:36: error: 'powerpc_debugfs_root' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.c:182:36: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.o] Error 2
A bisect leads to commit 9ffc93f203
"Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h"
Add the debug header which contains powerpc_debugfs_root.
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This branch fixes a bug in irq_create_mapping() where an error return
from irq_alloc_desc_from() gets ignored. It also removes irq_virq_count
to fix a bug on powerpc where the irqdomain code does not find irqs
allocated above the CONFIG_NR_IRQS boundary. The remaining patches get
rid of an completely pointless export and fix some minor bugs in the
irqdomain debug output.
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Merge tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
Pull irqdomain bug fixes from Grant Likely:
"This branch fixes a bug in irq_create_mapping() where an error return
from irq_alloc_desc_from() gets ignored.
It also removes irq_virq_count to fix a bug on powerpc where the
irqdomain code does not find irqs allocated above the CONFIG_NR_IRQS
boundary.
The remaining patches get rid of an completely pointless export and
fix some minor bugs in the irqdomain debug output."
* tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
irq_domain: Move irq_virq_count into NOMAP revmap
irqdomain: Fix debugfs formatting
irq_domain: correct the debugfs file name
irq: Kill pointless irqd_to_hw export
irq/irq_domain: Quit ignoring error returns from irq_alloc_desc_from().
This patch replaces the old global setting of irq_virq_count that is only
used by the NOMAP mapping and instead uses a revmap_data property so that
the maximum NOMAP allocation can be set per NOMAP irq_domain.
There is exactly one user of irq_virq_count in-tree right now: PS3.
Also, irq_virq_count is only useful for the NOMAP mapping. So,
instead of having a single global irq_virq_count values, this change
drops it entirely and added a max_irq argument to irq_domain_add_nomap().
That makes it a property of an individual nomap irq domain instead of
a global system settting.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Fixes for two nasty regression affecting powerpc in 3.4."
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix typo in runlatch code
powerpc: Fix page fault with lockdep regression
It makes no sense to export this trivial function. Make it a static inline
instead.
This patch also drops virq_to_hw from arch/c6x since it is unused by that
architecture.
v2: Move irq_hw_number_t into types.h to fix ARM build failure
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit fe1952fc0a
"powerpc: Rework runlatch code" has a nasty typo
where it uses "TLF_RUNLATCH" instead of "_TLF_RUNLATCH"
(bit number instead of bit mask), causing some flags to
be potentially lost such as _TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
(Brown paper bag for me ! We should be able to make
that break at compile time with a bit of magic, any
volunteer ?)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
commit a546498f3b
introduced a regression on 32-bit when irq tracing
is enabled by exposing an old bug in our irq tracing
code for exception entry.
The code would save and restore some GPRs around the
calls to the C lockdep code, however, it tries to be
too smart for its own good and restores some of the
GPRs from the exception frame (as saved there on
exception entry).
However, for page faults, we do replace those GPRs with
arguments to do_page_fault before we call transfer_to_handler
and so restoring from the exception frame is plain wrong in
this case.
This was fine as long as we didn't touch the interrupt state
when taking page fault, but when I started doing it, it would
trigger the lockdep calls and the bug.
This fixes it by cleaning up that code a bit. It did create
a small stack frame for the sake of backtraces, so let's
make it a bit bigger and use it to save and restore the
stuff we care about.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull a few KVM fixes from Avi Kivity:
"A bunch of powerpc KVM fixes, a guest and a host RCU fix (unrelated),
and a small build fix."
* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: Resolve RCU vs. async page fault problem
KVM: VMX: vmx_set_cr0 expects kvm->srcu locked
KVM: PMU: Fix integer constant is too large warning in kvm_pmu_set_msr()
KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Fix preemption
KVM: PPC: Save/Restore CR over vcpu_run
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save and restore CR in __kvmppc_vcore_entry
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix kvm_alloc_linear in case where no linears exist
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Compile fix for ppc32 in HIOR access code
Pull DMA mapping branch from Marek Szyprowski:
"Short summary for the whole series:
A few limitations have been identified in the current dma-mapping
design and its implementations for various architectures. There exist
more than one function for allocating and freeing the buffers:
currently these 3 are used dma_{alloc, free}_coherent,
dma_{alloc,free}_writecombine, dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent.
For most of the systems these calls are almost equivalent and can be
interchanged. For others, especially the truly non-coherent ones
(like ARM), the difference can be easily noticed in overall driver
performance. Sadly not all architectures provide implementations for
all of them, so the drivers might need to be adapted and cannot be
easily shared between different architectures. The provided patches
unify all these functions and hide the differences under the already
existing dma attributes concept. The thread with more references is
available here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg09777.html
These patches are also a prerequisite for unifying DMA-mapping
implementation on ARM architecture with the common one provided by
dma_map_ops structure and extending it with IOMMU support. More
information is available in the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/12819
More works on dma-mapping framework are planned, especially in the
area of buffer sharing and managing the shared mappings (together with
the recently introduced dma_buf interface: commit d15bd7ee44
"dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism").
The patches in the current set introduce a new alloc/free methods
(with support for memory attributes) in dma_map_ops structure, which
will later replace dma_alloc_coherent and dma_alloc_writecombine
functions."
People finally started piping up with support for merging this, so I'm
merging it as the last of the pending stuff from the merge window.
Looks like pohmelfs is going to wait for 3.5 and more external support
for merging.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute
common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method
common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods
Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Unicore32: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Microblaze: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SH: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Alpha: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SPARC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
PowerPC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
MIPS: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
X86 & IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
common: dma-mapping: introduce generic alloc() and free() methods
We were leaking preemption counters. Fix the code to always toggle
between preempt and non-preempt properly.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Suzuki Poulose