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Kumar Gala
2d1b202762 powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime
To allow for a single kernel image on e500 v1/v2/mc we need to fixup lwsync
at runtime.  On e500v1/v2 lwsync causes an illop so we need to patch up
the code.  We default to 'sync' since that is always safe and if the cpu
is capable we will replace 'sync' with 'lwsync'.

We introduce CPU_FTR_LWSYNC as a way to determine at runtime if this is
needed.  This flag could be moved elsewhere since we dont really use it
for the normal CPU_FTR purpose.

Finally we only store the relative offset in the fixup section to keep it
as small as possible rather than using a full fixup_entry.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03 16:58:10 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
b7bcda631e powerpc: Add PPC_NOP_INSTR, a hash define for the preferred nop instruction
A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it
would be nice to have a #define for it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:23 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
411781a290 powerpc: Add new code patching routines
This commit adds some new routines for patching code, which will be used
in a following commit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:21 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
07630a37be powerpc: Add ppc_function_entry() which gets the entry point for a function
Because function pointers point to different things on 32-bit vs 64-bit,
add a macro that deals with dereferencing the OPD on 64-bit.  The soon to
be merged ftrace wants this, as well as other code I am working on.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:20 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
e7a57273c6 powerpc: Allow create_branch() to return errors
Currently create_branch() creates a branch instruction for you, and
patches it into the call site.  In some circumstances it would be nice
to be able to create the instruction and patch it later, and also some
code might want to check for errors in the branch creation before
doing the patching.  A future commit will change create_branch() to
check for errors.

For callers that don't care, replace create_branch() with
patch_branch(), which just creates the branch and patches it directly.

While we're touching all the callers, change to using unsigned int *,
as this seems to match usage better.  That allows (and requires) us to
remove the volatile in the definition of vector in powermac/smp.c and
mpc86xx_smp.c, that's correct because now that we're passing vector as
an unsigned int * the compiler knows that it's value might change
across the patch_branch() call.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:19 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
aaddd3eaca powerpc: Move code patching code into arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
We currently have a few routines for patching code in asm/system.h, because
they didn't fit anywhere else. I'd like to clean them up a little and add
some more, so first move them into a dedicated C file - they don't need to
be inlined.

While we're moving the code, drop create_function_call(), it's intended
caller never got merged and will be replaced in future with something
different.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:18 +10:00