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* Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed to consider the nr_busy of the parent domain's group
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2013-10-22 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
  Cc: Michael Neuling, Mike Galbraith, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel,
	Anton Blanchard, Preeti U Murthy, Paul Turner, Ingo Molnar
In-Reply-To: <20131021114442.13291.99344.stgit@drishya>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:14:42PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>  kernel/sched/fair.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 7c70201..12f0eab 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5807,12 +5807,19 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
>  
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
> +		struct sched_domain *sd_parent = sd->parent;
> +		struct sched_group *sg;
> +		struct sched_group_power *sgp;
> +		int nr_busy;
> +
> +		if (sd_parent) {
> +			sg = sd_parent->groups;
> +			sgp = sg->sgp;
> +			nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
> +
> +			if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1)
> +				goto need_kick_unlock;
> +		}
>  
>  		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight
>  		    && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
> 

Almost I'd say; what happens on !sd_parent && SD_ASYM_PACKING ?

Also, this made me look at the nr_busy stuff again, and somehow that
entire thing makes me a little sad.

Can't we do something like the below and cut that nr_busy sd iteration
short?

This nohz stuff really needs to be re-thought and made more scalable --
its a royal pain :/


 kernel/sched/core.c  |  4 ++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c  | 21 +++++++++++++++------
 kernel/sched/sched.h |  5 ++---
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c06b8d3..89db8dc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5271,6 +5271,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_busy);
 
 static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 {
@@ -5290,6 +5291,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 
 	sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_NUMA);
 	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_numa, cpu), sd);
+
+	sd = highest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES | SD_ASYM_PACKING);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 813dd61..3d5141e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6512,19 +6512,23 @@ static inline void nohz_balance_exit_idle(int cpu)
 	}
 }
 
-static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(void)
+static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(int cpu)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
+	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(rq->sd);
 
 	if (!sd || !sd->nohz_idle)
 		goto unlock;
 	sd->nohz_idle = 0;
 
-	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
+	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent) {
 		atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+		if (sd == per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu))
+			break;
+	}
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -6532,16 +6536,21 @@ static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(void)
 void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
+	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(rq->sd);
 
 	if (!sd || sd->nohz_idle)
 		goto unlock;
 	sd->nohz_idle = 1;
 
-	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
+	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent) {
 		atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+		if (sd == per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu))
+			break;
+	}
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -6756,7 +6765,7 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
 	* We may be recently in ticked or tickless idle mode. At the first
 	* busy tick after returning from idle, we will update the busy stats.
 	*/
-	set_cpu_sd_state_busy();
+	set_cpu_sd_state_busy(cpu);
 	nohz_balance_exit_idle(cpu);
 
 	/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index ffc7087..80c5fd2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -599,9 +599,8 @@ static inline struct sched_domain *highest_flag_domain(int cpu, int flag)
 	struct sched_domain *sd, *hsd = NULL;
 
 	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
-		if (!(sd->flags & flag))
-			break;
-		hsd = sd;
+		if (sd->flags & flag)
+			hsd = sd;
 	}
 
 	return hsd;

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* Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2013-10-22 22:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
  Cc: Michael Neuling, Mike Galbraith, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel,
	Anton Blanchard, Preeti U Murthy, Paul Turner, Ingo Molnar
In-Reply-To: <20131021114452.13291.19947.stgit@drishya>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:14:52PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>  kernel/sched/fair.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 12f0eab..828ed97 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5821,8 +5821,8 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
>  				goto need_kick_unlock;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight
> -		    && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
> +		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING &&
> +			(cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
>  					  sched_domain_span(sd)) < cpu))
>  			goto need_kick_unlock;
>  
> 

Ahh, so here you remove the nr_busy usage.. this patch should really go
before the first one that makes this all weird and funny.

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* Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Aggressive balance in domains whose groups share package resources
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2013-10-22 22:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
  Cc: Michael Neuling, Mike Galbraith, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel,
	Anton Blanchard, Preeti U Murthy, Paul Turner, Ingo Molnar
In-Reply-To: <20131021114502.13291.60794.stgit@drishya>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:15:02PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>  kernel/sched/fair.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 828ed97..bbcd96b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5165,6 +5165,8 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
>  {
>  	int ld_moved, cur_ld_moved, active_balance = 0;
>  	struct sched_group *group;
> +	struct sched_domain *child;
> +	int share_pkg_res = 0;
>  	struct rq *busiest;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct cpumask *cpus = __get_cpu_var(load_balance_mask);
> @@ -5190,6 +5192,10 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
>  
>  	schedstat_inc(sd, lb_count[idle]);
>  
> +	child = sd->child;
> +	if (child && child->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)
> +		share_pkg_res = 1;
> +
>  redo:
>  	if (!should_we_balance(&env)) {
>  		*continue_balancing = 0;
> @@ -5202,6 +5208,7 @@ redo:
>  		goto out_balanced;
>  	}
>  
> +redo_grp:
>  	busiest = find_busiest_queue(&env, group);
>  	if (!busiest) {
>  		schedstat_inc(sd, lb_nobusyq[idle]);
> @@ -5292,6 +5299,11 @@ more_balance:
>  			if (!cpumask_empty(cpus)) {
>  				env.loop = 0;
>  				env.loop_break = sched_nr_migrate_break;
> +				if (share_pkg_res &&
> +					cpumask_intersects(cpus,
> +						to_cpumask(group->cpumask)))

sched_group_cpus()

> +					goto redo_grp;
> +
>  				goto redo;
>  			}
>  			goto out_balanced;
> @@ -5318,9 +5330,15 @@ more_balance:
>  			 */
>  			if (!cpumask_test_cpu(this_cpu,
>  					tsk_cpus_allowed(busiest->curr))) {
> +				cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu_of(busiest), cpus);
>  				raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&busiest->lock,
>  							    flags);
>  				env.flags |= LBF_ALL_PINNED;
> +				if (share_pkg_res &&
> +					cpumask_intersects(cpus,
> +						to_cpumask(group->cpumask)))
> +					goto redo_grp;
> +
>  				goto out_one_pinned;
>  			}

Man this retry logic is getting annoying.. isn't there anything saner we
can do?

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* perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc
From: Michael Neuling @ 2013-10-22 23:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Frederic Weisbecker, benh, anton, linux-kernel, Linux PPC dev,
	Victor Kaplansky, Mathieu Desnoyers, michael

Frederic,

In the perf ring buffer code we have this in perf_output_get_handle():

	if (!local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest))
		goto out;

	/*
	 * Publish the known good head. Rely on the full barrier implied
	 * by atomic_dec_and_test() order the rb->head read and this
	 * write.
	 */
	rb->user_page->data_head = head;

The comment says atomic_dec_and_test() but the code is
local_dec_and_test().

On powerpc, local_dec_and_test() doesn't have a memory barrier but
atomic_dec_and_test() does.  Is the comment wrong, or is
local_dec_and_test() suppose to imply a memory barrier too and we have
it wrongly implemented in powerpc?

My guess is that local_dec_and_test() is correct but we to add an
explicit memory barrier like below:

(Kudos to Victor Kaplansky for finding this)

Mikey

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index cd55144..95768c6 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ again:
 		goto out;
 
 	/*
-	 * Publish the known good head. Rely on the full barrier implied
-	 * by atomic_dec_and_test() order the rb->head read and this
-	 * write.
+	 * Publish the known good head. We need a memory barrier to order the
+	 * order the rb->head read and this write.
 	 */
+	smp_mb ();
 	rb->user_page->data_head = head;
 
 	/*

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* Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed to consider the nr_busy of the parent domain's group
From: Preeti U Murthy @ 2013-10-23  4:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: Michael Neuling, Mike Galbraith, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel,
	Anton Blanchard, Paul Turner, Ingo Molnar
In-Reply-To: <20131022221138.GJ2490@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

Hi Peter,

On 10/23/2013 03:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:14:42PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>>  kernel/sched/fair.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> index 7c70201..12f0eab 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -5807,12 +5807,19 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
>>  
>>  	rcu_read_lock();
>>  	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
>> +		struct sched_domain *sd_parent = sd->parent;
>> +		struct sched_group *sg;
>> +		struct sched_group_power *sgp;
>> +		int nr_busy;
>> +
>> +		if (sd_parent) {
>> +			sg = sd_parent->groups;
>> +			sgp = sg->sgp;
>> +			nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
>> +
>> +			if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1)
>> +				goto need_kick_unlock;
>> +		}
>>  
>>  		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight
>>  		    && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
>>
> 
> Almost I'd say; what happens on !sd_parent && SD_ASYM_PACKING ?

You are right, sorry about this. The idea was to correct the nr_busy
computation before the patch that would remove its usage in the second
patch. But that would mean the condition nr_busy != sg->group_weight
would be invalid with this patch. The second patch needs to go first to
avoid this confusion.

> 
> Also, this made me look at the nr_busy stuff again, and somehow that
> entire thing makes me a little sad.
> 
> Can't we do something like the below and cut that nr_busy sd iteration
> short?

We can surely cut the nr_busy sd iteration but not like what is done
with this patch. You stop the nr_busy computation at the sched domain
that has the flag SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES set. But nohz_kick_needed()
would want to know the nr_busy for one level above this.
   Consider a core. Assume it is the highest domain with this flag set.
The nr_busy of its groups, which are logical threads are set to 1/0
each. But nohz_kick_needed() would like to know the sum of the nr_busy
parameter of all the groups, i.e. the threads in a core before it
decides if it can kick nohz_idle balancing. The information about the
individual group's nr_busy is of no relevance here.

Thats why the above patch tries to get the
sd->parent->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus. This will translate rightly to
the core's busy cpus in this example. But the below patch stops before
updating this parameter at the sd->parent level, where sd is the highest
level sched domain with the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set.

But we can get around all this confusion if we can move the nr_busy
parameter to be included in the sched_domain structure rather than the
sched_groups_power structure. Anyway the only place where nr_busy is
used, that is at nohz_kick_needed(), is done to know the total number of
busy cpus at a sched domain level which has the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
set and not at a sched group level.

So why not move nr_busy to struct sched_domain  and having the below
patch which just updates this parameter for the sched domain, sd_busy ?
This will avoid iterating through all the levels of sched domains and
should resolve the scalability issue. We also don't need to get to
sd->parent to get the nr_busy parameter for the sake of nohz_kick_needed().

What do you think?

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
> 
> This nohz stuff really needs to be re-thought and made more scalable --
> its a royal pain :/
> 
> 
>  kernel/sched/core.c  |  4 ++++
>  kernel/sched/fair.c  | 21 +++++++++++++++------
>  kernel/sched/sched.h |  5 ++---
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index c06b8d3..89db8dc 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -5271,6 +5271,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_busy);
> 
>  static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
>  {
> @@ -5290,6 +5291,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
> 
>  	sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_NUMA);
>  	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_numa, cpu), sd);
> +
> +	sd = highest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES | SD_ASYM_PACKING);
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd);
>  }
> 
>  /*
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 813dd61..3d5141e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6512,19 +6512,23 @@ static inline void nohz_balance_exit_idle(int cpu)
>  	}
>  }
> 
> -static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(void)
> +static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(int cpu)
>  {
>  	struct sched_domain *sd;
> +	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> 
>  	rcu_read_lock();
> -	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
> +	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(rq->sd);
> 
>  	if (!sd || !sd->nohz_idle)
>  		goto unlock;
>  	sd->nohz_idle = 0;
> 
> -	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
> +	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent) {
>  		atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
> +		if (sd == per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu))
> +			break;
> +	}
>  unlock:
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  }
> @@ -6532,16 +6536,21 @@ static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(void)
>  void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void)
>  {
>  	struct sched_domain *sd;
> +	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> 
>  	rcu_read_lock();
> -	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
> +	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(rq->sd);
> 
>  	if (!sd || sd->nohz_idle)
>  		goto unlock;
>  	sd->nohz_idle = 1;
> 
> -	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
> +	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent) {
>  		atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
> +		if (sd == per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu))
> +			break;
> +	}
>  unlock:
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  }
> @@ -6756,7 +6765,7 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
>  	* We may be recently in ticked or tickless idle mode. At the first
>  	* busy tick after returning from idle, we will update the busy stats.
>  	*/
> -	set_cpu_sd_state_busy();
> +	set_cpu_sd_state_busy(cpu);
>  	nohz_balance_exit_idle(cpu);
> 
>  	/*
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index ffc7087..80c5fd2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -599,9 +599,8 @@ static inline struct sched_domain *highest_flag_domain(int cpu, int flag)
>  	struct sched_domain *sd, *hsd = NULL;
> 
>  	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
> -		if (!(sd->flags & flag))
> -			break;
> -		hsd = sd;
> +		if (sd->flags & flag)
> +			hsd = sd;
>  	}
> 
>  	return hsd;
> 

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* Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed to consider the nr_busy of the parent domain's group
From: Preeti U Murthy @ 2013-10-23  4:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: Michael Neuling, Mike Galbraith, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel,
	Anton Blanchard, Paul Turner, Ingo Molnar
In-Reply-To: <526749EC.9030005@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 10/23/2013 09:30 AM, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 10/23/2013 03:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:14:42PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>>>  kernel/sched/fair.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
>>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> index 7c70201..12f0eab 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> @@ -5807,12 +5807,19 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
>>>  
>>>  	rcu_read_lock();
>>>  	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
>>> +		struct sched_domain *sd_parent = sd->parent;
>>> +		struct sched_group *sg;
>>> +		struct sched_group_power *sgp;
>>> +		int nr_busy;
>>> +
>>> +		if (sd_parent) {
>>> +			sg = sd_parent->groups;
>>> +			sgp = sg->sgp;
>>> +			nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
>>> +
>>> +			if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1)
>>> +				goto need_kick_unlock;
>>> +		}
>>>  
>>>  		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight
>>>  		    && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
>>>
>>
>> Almost I'd say; what happens on !sd_parent && SD_ASYM_PACKING ?
> 
> You are right, sorry about this. The idea was to correct the nr_busy
> computation before the patch that would remove its usage in the second
> patch. But that would mean the condition nr_busy != sg->group_weight
> would be invalid with this patch. The second patch needs to go first to
> avoid this confusion.
> 
>>
>> Also, this made me look at the nr_busy stuff again, and somehow that
>> entire thing makes me a little sad.
>>
>> Can't we do something like the below and cut that nr_busy sd iteration
>> short?
> 
> We can surely cut the nr_busy sd iteration but not like what is done
> with this patch. You stop the nr_busy computation at the sched domain
> that has the flag SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES set. But nohz_kick_needed()
> would want to know the nr_busy for one level above this.
>    Consider a core. Assume it is the highest domain with this flag set.
> The nr_busy of its groups, which are logical threads are set to 1/0
> each. But nohz_kick_needed() would like to know the sum of the nr_busy
> parameter of all the groups, i.e. the threads in a core before it
> decides if it can kick nohz_idle balancing. The information about the
> individual group's nr_busy is of no relevance here.
> 
> Thats why the above patch tries to get the
> sd->parent->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus. This will translate rightly to
> the core's busy cpus in this example. But the below patch stops before
> updating this parameter at the sd->parent level, where sd is the highest
> level sched domain with the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set.
> 
> But we can get around all this confusion if we can move the nr_busy
> parameter to be included in the sched_domain structure rather than the
> sched_groups_power structure. Anyway the only place where nr_busy is
> used, that is at nohz_kick_needed(), is done to know the total number of
> busy cpus at a sched domain level which has the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
> set and not at a sched group level.
> 
> So why not move nr_busy to struct sched_domain  and having the below
> patch which just updates this parameter for the sched domain, sd_busy ?

Oh this can't be done :( Domain structures are per cpu!

Regards
Preeti U Murthy

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* Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Emulate "lwsync" to run standard user land on e500 cores
From: Kumar Gala @ 2013-10-23  5:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Wolfgang Denk; +Cc: Scott Wood, linuxppc-dev
In-Reply-To: <1382081880-6666-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de>


On Oct 18, 2013, at 2:38 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Default Debian PowerPC doesn't work on e500 because the code contains
> "lwsync" instructions, which are unsupported on this core.  As a
> result, applications using this will crash with an "unhandled signal =
4"
> "Illegal instruction" error.
>=20
> As a work around we add code to emulate this insn.  This is expensive
> performance-wise, but allows to run standard user land code.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> ---
> I am aware that the clean solution to the problem is to build user
> space with compiler options that match the target architecture.
> However, sometimes this is just too much effort.
>=20
> Also, of course the performance of such an emulation sucks. But the
> the occurrence of such instructions is so rare that no significant
> slowdown can be oserved.
>=20
> I'm not sure if this should / could go into mainline.  I'm posting it
> primarily so it can be found should anybody else need this.
> - wd
>=20
> arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>=20
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> index f783c93..f330374 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -986,6 +986,13 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt_regs =
*regs)
> 		return 0;
> 	}
>=20
> +	/* Emulating the lwsync insn as a sync insn */
> +	if (instword =3D=3D PPC_INST_LWSYNC) {
> +		PPC_WARN_EMULATED(lwsync, regs);
> +		asm volatile("sync" : : : "memory");

Do we really need the inline asm?  Doesn't the fact of just taking an =
exception and returning from it equate to a sync.

> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> 	/* Emulate the mcrxr insn.  */
> 	if ((instword & PPC_INST_MCRXR_MASK) =3D=3D PPC_INST_MCRXR) {
> 		int shift =3D (instword >> 21) & 0x1c;
> --=20
> 1.8.3.1
>=20
> _______________________________________________
> Linuxppc-dev mailing list
> Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

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* Re: Missing _restvr_20 and _savevr_20 subroutines for lib/raid6/altivec8.o
From: Kumar Gala @ 2013-10-23  5:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ben Hutchings
  Cc: debian-powerpc, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org list,
	Anton Blanchard, Debian kernel maintainers
In-Reply-To: <1382221463.2794.87.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>


On Oct 19, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> When building lib/raid6/altivec8.o with gcc 4.8 on Debian, the =
compiler
> is generating references to two new runtime subroutines which are
> apparently not included in the kernel:
>=20
> ERROR: "_restvr_20" [lib/raid6/raid6_pq.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "_savevr_20" [lib/raid6/raid6_pq.ko] undefined!
>=20
> The save/restore subroutines are specified in
> =
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.1.html#SAVE=
-RESTORE
> and we do have the _restgpr_* and _savegpr_* subroutines in
> arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S.  I'm not sure whether these subroutines
> should be added or whether this indicates the compiler is doing
> something wrong.
>=20
> A configuration that triggers this is included below.
>=20
> Ben.

Try with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=3Dn.  A feature was added to gcc =
for -Os to "outline" the save/restore routines.  I'm surprised this =
hasn't shown up sooner.

Well need to add _restvr_* / _savevr_* to the version in =
lib/crtsaveres.S.

=
http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=3Dgcc.git;a=3Dblob_plain;f=3Dlibgcc/config/rs600=
0/crtrestvr.S;hb=3DHEAD
=
http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=3Dgcc.git;a=3Dblob_plain;f=3Dlibgcc/config/rs600=
0/crtsavevr.S;hb=3DHEAD

- k=

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* Re: perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc
From: Victor Kaplansky @ 2013-10-23  7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Neuling
  Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers, linux-kernel, Linux PPC dev, anton,
	Frederic Weisbecker
In-Reply-To: <12083.1382486094@ale.ozlabs.ibm.com>

See below.

Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> wrote on 10/23/2013 02:54:54 AM:

>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> index cd55144..95768c6 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ again:
>        goto out;
>
>     /*
> -    * Publish the known good head. Rely on the full barrier implied
> -    * by atomic_dec_and_test() order the rb->head read and this
> -    * write.
> +    * Publish the known good head. We need a memory barrier to order the
> +    * order the rb->head read and this write.
>      */
> +   smp_mb ();
>     rb->user_page->data_head = head;
>
>     /*

1. As far as I understand, smp_mb() is superfluous in this case, smp_wmb()
should be enough.
   (same for the space between the name of function and open
parenthesis :-) )

2. Again, as far as I understand from ./Documentation/atomic_ops.txt, it is
mistake in architecture independent
   code to rely on memory barriers in atomic operations, all the more so in
"local" operations.

3. The solution above is sub-optimal on architectures where memory barrier
is part of "local", since we are going to execute
   two consecutive barriers. So, maybe, it would be better to use
smp_mb__after_atomic_dec().

4. I'm not sure, but I think there is another, unrelated potential problem
in function perf_output_put_handle()
   - the write to "data_head" -

kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:

 77         /*
 78          * Publish the known good head. Rely on the full barrier
implied
 79          * by atomic_dec_and_test() order the rb->head read and this
 80          * write.
 81          */
 82         rb->user_page->data_head = head;

As data_head is 64-bit wide, the update should be done by an atomic64_set
().

Regards,
-- Victor

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* [PATCH] powerpc: Don't corrupt user registers on 32-bit
From: Paul Mackerras @ 2013-10-23  8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt; +Cc: Scott Wood, linuxppc-dev, Alexander Graf

Commit de79f7b9f6 ("powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures")
modified load_up_fpu() and load_up_altivec() in such a way that they
now use r7 and r8.  Unfortunately, the callers of these functions on
32-bit machines then return to userspace via fast_exception_return,
which doesn't restore all of the volatile GPRs, but only r1, r3 -- r6
and r9 -- r12.  This was causing userspace segfaults and other
userspace misbehaviour on 32-bit machines.

This fixes the problem by changing the register usage of load_up_fpu()
and load_up_altivec() to avoid using r7 and r8 and instead use r6 and
r10.  This also adds comments to those functions saying which registers
may be used.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S    | 14 ++++++++------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S | 15 +++++++++------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
index 4dca05e..f7f5b8b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ _GLOBAL(store_fp_state)
  * and save its floating-point registers in its thread_struct.
  * Load up this task's FP registers from its thread_struct,
  * enable the FPU for the current task and return to the task.
+ * Note that on 32-bit this can only use registers that will be
+ * restored by fast_exception_return, i.e. r3 - r6, r10 and r11.
  */
 _GLOBAL(load_up_fpu)
 	mfmsr	r5
@@ -131,10 +133,10 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_VSX)
 	beq	1f
 	toreal(r4)
 	addi	r4,r4,THREAD		/* want last_task_used_math->thread */
-	addi	r8,r4,THREAD_FPSTATE
-	SAVE_32FPVSRS(0, R5, R8)
+	addi	r10,r4,THREAD_FPSTATE
+	SAVE_32FPVSRS(0, R5, R10)
 	mffs	fr0
-	stfd	fr0,FPSTATE_FPSCR(r8)
+	stfd	fr0,FPSTATE_FPSCR(r10)
 	PPC_LL	r5,PT_REGS(r4)
 	toreal(r5)
 	PPC_LL	r4,_MSR-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r5)
@@ -157,10 +159,10 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_VSX)
 	or	r12,r12,r4
 	std	r12,_MSR(r1)
 #endif
-	addi	r7,r5,THREAD_FPSTATE
-	lfd	fr0,FPSTATE_FPSCR(r7)
+	addi	r10,r5,THREAD_FPSTATE
+	lfd	fr0,FPSTATE_FPSCR(r10)
 	MTFSF_L(fr0)
-	REST_32FPVSRS(0, R4, R7)
+	REST_32FPVSRS(0, R4, R10)
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 	subi	r4,r5,THREAD
 	fromreal(r4)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S
index eacda4e..0458a9a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ _GLOBAL(store_vr_state)
  * Enables the VMX for use in the kernel on return.
  * On SMP we know the VMX is free, since we give it up every
  * switch (ie, no lazy save of the vector registers).
+ *
+ * Note that on 32-bit this can only use registers that will be
+ * restored by fast_exception_return, i.e. r3 - r6, r10 and r11.
  */
 _GLOBAL(load_up_altivec)
 	mfmsr	r5			/* grab the current MSR */
@@ -89,11 +92,11 @@ _GLOBAL(load_up_altivec)
 	/* Save VMX state to last_task_used_altivec's THREAD struct */
 	toreal(r4)
 	addi	r4,r4,THREAD
-	addi	r7,r4,THREAD_VRSTATE
-	SAVE_32VRS(0,r5,r7)
+	addi	r6,r4,THREAD_VRSTATE
+	SAVE_32VRS(0,r5,r6)
 	mfvscr	vr0
 	li	r10,VRSTATE_VSCR
-	stvx	vr0,r10,r7
+	stvx	vr0,r10,r6
 	/* Disable VMX for last_task_used_altivec */
 	PPC_LL	r5,PT_REGS(r4)
 	toreal(r5)
@@ -125,13 +128,13 @@ _GLOBAL(load_up_altivec)
 	oris	r12,r12,MSR_VEC@h
 	std	r12,_MSR(r1)
 #endif
-	addi	r7,r5,THREAD_VRSTATE
+	addi	r6,r5,THREAD_VRSTATE
 	li	r4,1
 	li	r10,VRSTATE_VSCR
 	stw	r4,THREAD_USED_VR(r5)
-	lvx	vr0,r10,r7
+	lvx	vr0,r10,r6
 	mtvscr	vr0
-	REST_32VRS(0,r4,r7)
+	REST_32VRS(0,r4,r6)
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 	/* Update last_task_used_altivec to 'current' */
 	subi	r4,r5,THREAD		/* Back to 'current' */
-- 
1.8.4.rc3

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* Re: [v5][PATCH 1/6] powerpc/book3e: load critical/machine/debug exception stack
From: "“tiejun.chen”" @ 2013-10-23  9:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Wood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382135824.7979.906.camel@snotra.buserror.net>

On 10/19/2013 06:37 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> We always alloc critical/machine/debug check exceptions. This is
>> different from the normal exception. So we should load these exception
>> stack properly like we did for booke.
>
> This is "booke".  Do you mean like "like we did for 32-bit"?

Yes.

>
> And the code is already trying to load the special stack; it just
> happens that it's loading from a different location than the C code
> placed the stack addresses.  The changelog should point out the specific
> thing that is being fixed.

Here I don't fix anything, and I just want to do the same thing as 32-bit.

>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> index 4b23119..4d8e57f 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> @@ -36,6 +36,37 @@
>>    */
>>   #define	SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE	INT_FRAME_SIZE
>>
>> +/* only on book3e */
>> +#define DBG_STACK_BASE		dbgirq_ctx
>> +#define MC_STACK_BASE		mcheckirq_ctx
>> +#define CRIT_STACK_BASE		critirq_ctx
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
>> +#define LOAD_STACK_BASE(reg, level)			\
>> +	tovirt(r2,r2);					\
>> +	LOAD_REG_ADDR(reg, level##_STACK_BASE);
>> +#else
>> +#define LOAD_STACK_BASE(reg, level)			\
>> +	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(reg, level##_STACK_BASE);
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>> +#define BOOK3E_LOAD_EXC_LEVEL_STACK(level)		\
>> +	mfspr	r14,SPRN_PIR;				\
>> +	slwi	r14,r14,3;				\
>> +	LOAD_STACK_BASE(r10, level);			\
>> +	add	r10,r10,r14;				\
>> +	ld	r10,0(r10);				\
>> +	addi	r10,r10,THREAD_SIZE;			\
>> +	std	r10,PACA_##level##_STACK(r13);
>> +#else
>> +#define BOOK3E_LOAD_EXC_LEVEL_STACK(level)		\
>> +	LOAD_STACK_BASE(r10, level);			\
>> +	ld	r10,0(r10);				\
>> +	addi	r10,r10,THREAD_SIZE;			\
>> +	std	r10,PACA_##level##_STACK(r13);
>> +#endif
>
> It looks like you're loading the stack from *irq_ctx, storing it in
> PACA_*_stack, and then (immediately after this in the caller) loading it
> back from PACA_*_STACK.  Why not just load it from *irq_ctx and get rid
> of PACA_*_STACK altogether -- or change the C code to initialize the
> addresses in the PACA instead, and get ird of *irq_ctx on 64-bit?

Okay, I'd like to move forward the c code, please see next version.

>
>>   /* Exception prolog code for all exceptions */
>>   #define EXCEPTION_PROLOG(n, intnum, type, addition)	    		    \
>>   	mtspr	SPRN_SPRG_##type##_SCRATCH,r13;	/* get spare registers */   \
>> @@ -68,20 +99,32 @@
>>   #define SPRN_GDBELL_SRR1	SPRN_GSRR1
>>
>>   #define CRIT_SET_KSTACK						            \
>> +	andi.	r10,r11,MSR_PR;							\
>> +	bne	1f;								\
>> +	BOOK3E_LOAD_EXC_LEVEL_STACK(CRIT);					\
>>   	ld	r1,PACA_CRIT_STACK(r13);				    \
>> -	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;
>> +	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;					\
>
> The caller will already check MSR_PR and override this if coming from
> userspace; why do you need to check again here?

Looks this is redundant so this will be left out.

Thanks,

Tiejun

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* Re: [v5][PATCH 2/6] powerpc/book3e: store critical/machine/debug exception thread info
From: "“tiejun.chen”" @ 2013-10-23  9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Wood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382136213.7979.908.camel@snotra.buserror.net>

On 10/19/2013 06:43 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> We need to store thread info to these exception thread info like something
>> we already did for PPC32.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   15 +++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> index 4d8e57f..07cf657 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> @@ -67,6 +67,18 @@
>>   	std	r10,PACA_##level##_STACK(r13);
>>   #endif
>>
>> +/* Store something to exception thread info */
>> +#define	BOOK3E_STORE_EXC_LEVEL_THEAD_INFO(type)					\
>> +	ld	r14,PACAKSAVE(r13);						\
>> +	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r14, r14);						\
>> +	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r15, r1);						\
>> +	ld	r10,TI_FLAGS(r14);		     				\
>> +	std	r10,TI_FLAGS(r15);			     			\
>> +	ld	r10,TI_PREEMPT(r14);		     				\
>> +	std	r10,TI_PREEMPT(r15);		     				\
>> +	ld	r10,TI_TASK(r14);			     			\
>> +	std	r10,TI_TASK(r15);
>
> Where is "type" used?
>

Yes, its noting now but its worth leaving this to extend something in the future.

> BTW, no need for a BOOK3E prefix for things local to this file.
>

What about "EXC_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG"? Please see next version.

Thanks,

Tiejun

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* Re: [v5][PATCH 3/6] book3e/kgdb: update thread's dbcr0
From: "“tiejun.chen”" @ 2013-10-23  9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Wood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382137030.7979.914.camel@snotra.buserror.net>

On 10/19/2013 06:57 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> gdb always need to generate a single step properly to invoke
>> a kgdb state. But with lazy interrupt, book3e can't always
>> trigger a debug exception with a single step since the current
>> is blocked for handling those pending exception, then we miss
>> that expected dbcr configuration at last to generate a debug
>> exception.
>
> What do you mean by "the current is blocked"?  Could you explain more
> clearly what lazy EE has to do with MSR_DE and DBCR0?
>

I will go another path to make sure the lazy EE doesn't affect KGDB, so please 
see next version.

Thanks,

Tiejun

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* Re: [v5][PATCH 4/6] powerpc/book3e: support kgdb for kernel space
From: "“tiejun.chen”" @ 2013-10-23  9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Wood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382137119.7979.916.camel@snotra.buserror.net>

On 10/19/2013 06:58 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> Currently we need to skip this for supporting KGDB.
>
> Does it need to depend on CONFIG_KGDB?  Either you've fixed the "can't
> quite save properly" part, or you haven't.

I'm not 100% sure if my change is fine to other scenarios so I have to use this 
guarantee other stuff are still safe. But if you think we can remove this 
dependent, I'm happy to do :)

Thanks,

Tiejun

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* Re: [v5][PATCH 6/6] book3e/kgdb: Fix a single stgep case of lazy IRQ
From: "“tiejun.chen”" @ 2013-10-23  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Wood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382139147.7979.934.camel@snotra.buserror.net>

On 10/19/2013 07:32 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> When we're in kgdb_singlestep(), we have to work around to get
>> thread_info by copying from the kernel stack before calling
>> kgdb_handle_exception(), then copying it back afterwards.
>>
>> But for PPC64, we have a lazy interrupt implementation. So after
>> copying thread info frome kernle stack, if we need to replay an
>> interrupt, we shouldn't restore that previous backup thread info
>> to make sure we can replay an interrupt lately with a proper
>> thread info.
>
> Explain why copying it would be a problem.
>

This would be gone away in next version as well :)

Thanks,

Tiejun

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* Re: [v5][PATCH 1/6] powerpc/book3e: load critical/machine/debug exception stack
From: "“tiejun.chen”" @ 2013-10-23  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Wood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382140519.7979.936.camel@snotra.buserror.net>

On 10/19/2013 07:55 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> We always alloc critical/machine/debug check exceptions. This is
>> different from the normal exception. So we should load these exception
>> stack properly like we did for booke.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> index 4b23119..4d8e57f 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
>> @@ -36,6 +36,37 @@
>>    */
>>   #define	SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE	INT_FRAME_SIZE
>>
>> +/* only on book3e */
>> +#define DBG_STACK_BASE		dbgirq_ctx
>> +#define MC_STACK_BASE		mcheckirq_ctx
>> +#define CRIT_STACK_BASE		critirq_ctx
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
>> +#define LOAD_STACK_BASE(reg, level)			\
>> +	tovirt(r2,r2);					\
>> +	LOAD_REG_ADDR(reg, level##_STACK_BASE);
>
> Where does r2 come from here, where does it get used, and why do we need
> tovirt() on book3e?
>

As I remember this should be covered when we boot that capture kernel in 
kexec/kdump case.

Now this is also gone away after move forward the c code.

Thanks,

Tiejun

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* [v6][PATCH 0/5] powerpc/book3e: powerpc/book3e: make kgdb to work well
From: Tiejun Chen @ 2013-10-23  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scottwood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel

Scott,

Tested on fsl-p5040 DS.

v6:

* rebase
* change the C code to initialize the exception stack addresses in the PACA instead.
* Clear the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS force to exit directly from this debug exception
  without replaying interrupt.
* so drop "book3e/kgdb: update thread's dbcr0".

v5:

* rebase on merge branch.

Note the original patch, [ATCH 5/7] kgdb/kgdbts: support ppc64, is already merged
by Jason.

v4:

* use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's thread_info
* add patch 7 to make usre copy thread_info only !__check_irq_replay
* leave "andi.   r14,r11,MSR_PR" out of "#ifndef CONFIG_KGDB"
  since cr0 is still used lately.
* retest

v3:

* make work when enable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
* fix one typo in patch,
  "powerpc/book3e: store critical/machine/debug exception thread info": 
	ld	r1,PACAKSAVE(r13);
    ->  ld	r14,PACAKSAVE(r13);
* remove copying the thread_info since booke and book3e always copy
  the thead_info now when we enter the debug exception, and so drop
  the v2 patch, "book3e/kgdb: Fix a single stgep case of lazy IRQ"

v2:

* Make sure we cover CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E_64 safely
* Use LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE() to load properly
	the value of the constant expression in load debug exception stack 
* Copy thread infor form the kernel stack coming from usr
* Rebase latest powerpc git tree

v1:

* Copy thread info only when we are from !user mode since we'll get kernel stack
  coming from usr directly.
* remove save/restore EX_R14/EX_R15 since DBG_EXCEPTION_PROLOG already covered
  this.
* use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO() conveniently to get thread.
* fix some typos
* add a patch to make sure gdb can generate a single step properly to invoke a
  kgdb state.
* add a patch to if we need to replay an interrupt, we shouldn't restore that
  previous backup thread info to make sure we can replay an interrupt lately
  with a proper thread info.
* rebase latest powerpc git tree

v0:

This patchset is used to support kgdb for book3e.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Tiejun Chen (5):
      powerpc/book3e: initialize crit/mc/dbg kernel stack pointers
      powerpc/book3e: store crit/mc/dbg exception thread info
      powerpc/book3e: support kgdb for kernel space
      powerpc/kgdb: use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's thread_info
      powerpc/book3e/kgdb: Fix a single stgep case of lazy IRQ

 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c           |   13 ++++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c       |   18 ++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Tiejun

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* [v6][PATCH 1/5] powerpc/book3e: initialize crit/mc/dbg kernel stack pointers
From: Tiejun Chen @ 2013-10-23  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scottwood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382520685-11609-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com>

We already allocated critical/machine/debug check exceptions, but
we also should initialize those associated kernel stack pointers
for use by special exceptions in the PACA.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c |   18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 278ca93..5c96d92 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -526,14 +526,20 @@ static void __init exc_lvl_early_init(void)
 	extern unsigned int exc_debug_debug_book3e;
 
 	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned long sp;
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
-		critirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)
-			__va(memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE));
-		dbgirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)
-			__va(memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE));
-		mcheckirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)
-			__va(memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE));
+		sp = memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE);
+		critirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)__va(sp);
+		paca[i].crit_kstack = __va(sp + THREAD_SIZE);
+
+		sp = memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE);
+		dbgirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)__va(sp);
+		paca[i].dbg_kstack = __va(sp + THREAD_SIZE);
+
+		sp = memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE);
+		mcheckirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)__va(sp);
+		paca[i].mc_kstack = __va(sp + THREAD_SIZE);
 	}
 
 	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DEBUG_LVL_EXC))
-- 
1.7.9.5

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* [v6][PATCH 2/5] powerpc/book3e: store crit/mc/dbg exception thread info
From: Tiejun Chen @ 2013-10-23  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scottwood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382520685-11609-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com>

We need to store thread info to these exception thread info like something
we already did for PPC32.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
index 68d74b4..a55cf62 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@
  */
 #define	SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE	INT_FRAME_SIZE
 
+/* Now we only store something to exception thread info */
+#define	EXC_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(type)				\
+	ld	r14,PACAKSAVE(r13);					\
+	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r14, r14);					\
+	CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r15, r1);					\
+	ld	r10,TI_FLAGS(r14);		     			\
+	std	r10,TI_FLAGS(r15);			     		\
+	ld	r10,TI_PREEMPT(r14);		     			\
+	std	r10,TI_PREEMPT(r15);		     			\
+	ld	r10,TI_TASK(r14);			     		\
+	std	r10,TI_TASK(r15);
+
+
 /* Exception prolog code for all exceptions */
 #define EXCEPTION_PROLOG(n, intnum, type, addition)	    		    \
 	mtspr	SPRN_SPRG_##type##_SCRATCH,r13;	/* get spare registers */   \
@@ -69,19 +82,22 @@
 
 #define CRIT_SET_KSTACK						            \
 	ld	r1,PACA_CRIT_STACK(r13);				    \
-	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;
+	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;				    \
+	EXC_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(CRIT);
 #define SPRN_CRIT_SRR0	SPRN_CSRR0
 #define SPRN_CRIT_SRR1	SPRN_CSRR1
 
 #define DBG_SET_KSTACK						            \
 	ld	r1,PACA_DBG_STACK(r13);					    \
-	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;
+	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;				    \
+	EXC_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(DBG);
 #define SPRN_DBG_SRR0	SPRN_DSRR0
 #define SPRN_DBG_SRR1	SPRN_DSRR1
 
 #define MC_SET_KSTACK						            \
 	ld	r1,PACA_MC_STACK(r13);					    \
-	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;
+	subi	r1,r1,SPECIAL_EXC_FRAME_SIZE;				    \
+	EXC_LEVEL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(MC);
 #define SPRN_MC_SRR0	SPRN_MCSRR0
 #define SPRN_MC_SRR1	SPRN_MCSRR1
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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* [v6][PATCH 3/5] powerpc/book3e: support kgdb for kernel space
From: Tiejun Chen @ 2013-10-23  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scottwood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382520685-11609-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com>

Currently we need to skip this for supporting KGDB.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
index a55cf62..0b750c6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
@@ -597,11 +597,13 @@ kernel_dbg_exc:
 	rfdi
 
 	/* Normal debug exception */
+1:	andi.	r14,r11,MSR_PR;		/* check for userspace again */
+#ifndef CONFIG_KGDB
 	/* XXX We only handle coming from userspace for now since we can't
 	 *     quite save properly an interrupted kernel state yet
 	 */
-1:	andi.	r14,r11,MSR_PR;		/* check for userspace again */
 	beq	kernel_dbg_exc;		/* if from kernel mode */
+#endif
 
 	/* Now we mash up things to make it look like we are coming on a
 	 * normal exception
-- 
1.7.9.5

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* [v6][PATCH 4/5] powerpc/kgdb: use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's thread_info
From: Tiejun Chen @ 2013-10-23  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scottwood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382520685-11609-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com>

Use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate thread_info statically instead of kmalloc().
This can avoid introducing more memory check codes.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
index c1eef24..447c14b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -151,15 +151,15 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct thread_info, kgdb_thread_info);
 static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	struct thread_info *thread_info, *exception_thread_info;
-	struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info;
+	struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info = &__get_cpu_var(kgdb_thread_info);
 
 	if (user_mode(regs))
 		return 0;
 
-	backup_current_thread_info = kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 	/*
 	 * On Book E and perhaps other processors, singlestep is handled on
 	 * the critical exception stack.  This causes current_thread_info()
@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		/* Restore current_thread_info lastly. */
 		memcpy(exception_thread_info, backup_current_thread_info, sizeof *thread_info);
 
-	kfree(backup_current_thread_info);
 	return 1;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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* [v6][PATCH 5/5] powerpc/book3e/kgdb: Fix a single stgep case of lazy IRQ
From: Tiejun Chen @ 2013-10-23  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scottwood; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <1382520685-11609-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com>

In lazy EE magic, we may have a lazy interrupt occured while
entering kgdb, but we really don't want to replay that interrupt
for kgdb, so we have to clear the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS force to
make sure we can exit directly from this debug exception.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
index 447c14b..9872f58 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -185,6 +185,14 @@ static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		/* Restore current_thread_info lastly. */
 		memcpy(exception_thread_info, backup_current_thread_info, sizeof *thread_info);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+	/*
+	 * Clear the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS from the pending mask
+	 * since we are about to exit this directly from debug
+	 * exception without any replay interrupt in lazy EE case.
+	 */
+	local_paca->irq_happened &= ~PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS;
+#endif
 	return 1;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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* Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed to consider the nr_busy of the parent domain's group
From: Preeti U Murthy @ 2013-10-23  9:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: Michael Neuling, Mike Galbraith, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel,
	Anton Blanchard, Paul Turner, Ingo Molnar
In-Reply-To: <20131022221138.GJ2490@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

Hi Peter

On 10/23/2013 03:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This nohz stuff really needs to be re-thought and made more scalable --
> its a royal pain :/

Why  not do something like the below instead? It does the following.

This patch introduces sd_busy just like your suggested patch, except that
it points to the parent of the highest level sched domain which has the
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES set and initializes it in update_top_cache_domain(). 
This is the sched domain that is relevant in nohz_kick_needed().

sd_set_sd_state_busy(), sd_set_sd_state_idle() and nohz_kick_needed() query
and update *only* this sched domain(sd_busy) for nr_busy_cpus. They are the
only users of this parameter. While we are at it, we might as well change
the nohz_idle parameter to be updated at the sd_busy domain level alone and
not the base domain level of a CPU. This will unify the concept of busy cpus
at just one level of sched domain.

There is no need to iterate through all levels of sched domains of a cpu to
update nr_busy_cpus since it is irrelevant at all other sched domains except
at sd_busy level.

De-couple asymmetric load balancing from the nr_busy parameter which the
PATCH 2/3 anyway does. sd_busy therefore is irrelevant for asymmetric load
balancing.

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
--------------------START_PATCH-------------------------------

sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed()

---
 kernel/sched/core.c  |    4 ++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c  |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 kernel/sched/sched.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c06b8d3..c1dd11c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5271,6 +5271,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_busy);
 
 static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 {
@@ -5290,6 +5291,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 
 	sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_NUMA);
 	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_numa, cpu), sd);
+
+	sd = highest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)->parent;
+	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 813dd61..71e6f14 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6515,16 +6515,16 @@ static inline void nohz_balance_exit_idle(int cpu)
 static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(void)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
+	sd = per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu);
 
 	if (!sd || !sd->nohz_idle)
 		goto unlock;
 	sd->nohz_idle = 0;
 
-	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
-		atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+	atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -6532,16 +6532,16 @@ unlock:
 void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
+	sd = per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu);
 
 	if (!sd || sd->nohz_idle)
 		goto unlock;
 	sd->nohz_idle = 1;
 
-	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
-		atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+	atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -6748,6 +6748,9 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
 {
 	unsigned long now = jiffies;
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	struct sched_group *sg;
+	struct sched_group_power *sgp;
+	int nr_busy;
 
 	if (unlikely(idle_cpu(cpu)))
 		return 0;
@@ -6773,22 +6776,23 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
 		goto need_kick;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
-		struct sched_group *sg = sd->groups;
-		struct sched_group_power *sgp = sg->sgp;
-		int nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+	sd = per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu);
 
-		if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1)
-			goto need_kick_unlock;
+	if (sd) {
+		sg = sd->groups;
+		sgp = sg->sgp;
+		nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
 
-		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight
-		    && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
-					  sched_domain_span(sd)) < cpu))
+		if (nr_busy > 1)
 			goto need_kick_unlock;
-
-		if (!(sd->flags & (SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES | SD_ASYM_PACKING)))
-			break;
 	}
+
+	sd = highest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_ASYM_PACKING);
+
+	if (sd && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
+				  sched_domain_span(sd)) < cpu))
+		goto need_kick_unlock;
+
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return 0;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index ffc7087..0f1253f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_busy);
 
 struct sched_group_power {
 	atomic_t ref;

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* Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Emulate "lwsync" to run standard user land on e500 cores
From: Scott Wood @ 2013-10-23 10:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kumar Gala; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, Wolfgang Denk
In-Reply-To: <39CCEB38-1D9B-4918-B8F4-148D4E90FE21@kernel.crashing.org>

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:07 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2013, at 2:38 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > index f783c93..f330374 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -986,6 +986,13 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > 		return 0;
> > 	}
> > 
> > +	/* Emulating the lwsync insn as a sync insn */
> > +	if (instword == PPC_INST_LWSYNC) {
> > +		PPC_WARN_EMULATED(lwsync, regs);
> > +		asm volatile("sync" : : : "memory");
> 
> Do we really need the inline asm?  Doesn't the fact of just taking an exception and returning from it equate to a sync.

No, it doesn't equate to a sync.  See the discussion here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/256747/

-Scott

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* Re: powerpc: Don't corrupt user registers on 32-bit
From: Scott Wood @ 2013-10-23 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul Mackerras; +Cc: Alexander Graf, linuxppc-dev
In-Reply-To: <20131023084002.GA8325@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:40:02AM +0100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Commit de79f7b9f6 ("powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures")
> modified load_up_fpu() and load_up_altivec() in such a way that they
> now use r7 and r8.  Unfortunately, the callers of these functions on
> 32-bit machines then return to userspace via fast_exception_return,
> which doesn't restore all of the volatile GPRs, but only r1, r3 -- r6
> and r9 -- r12.  This was causing userspace segfaults and other
> userspace misbehaviour on 32-bit machines.
> 
> This fixes the problem by changing the register usage of load_up_fpu()
> and load_up_altivec() to avoid using r7 and r8 and instead use r6 and
> r10.  This also adds comments to those functions saying which registers
> may be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> 
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S    | 14 ++++++++------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S | 15 +++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> (on e500mc, so no altivec)

-Scott

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